Photograph of airmail pilot Ira Biffle

Photo of a man in a long coat with a fur collar leaning on the wheel of an airplane

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Object Details

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Ira Biffle

Description

Airmail pilot Ira Biffle posing in winter flight gear leaning on his airplane in Chicago, Illinois. Biffle served as an airmail pilot for the Post Office Department from 1918-1919 and 1923-1927. In 1922, while serving as a flying instructor in Lincoln, Nebraska, Biffle taught flying to a lanky young man named Charles Lindbergh.

Photographer: E. J. Pearson

Credit line

National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection Photographer: E. J. Pearson

Date

c. 1927

Object number

A.2006-5

Type

Photographs

Medium

paper; photo-emulsion

Place

United States of America

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National Postal Museum Collection

Data Source

National Postal Museum

Metadata Usage

Not determined

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm82f0e80d3-85cc-4c5c-b088-22970a5dab6c

Record ID

npm_A.2006-5