First Air Mail Flight

This first day cover commemorates the Air Mail service inaugurated in 1928 to include service to Menasha via the Milwaukee to Green Bay route.  As you'd expect, the mail planes landed at the Whiting Airport which was located at Airport Road and present day Highway 47.  The airport opened for operations in March of 1928 but closed when the air mail service was suspended in 1930, not a surprise with the Great Depression in its early stages.