Peter J. Choate, executive director of the Horsham Preservation & Historical Association, submitted this ticket stub from the Pitcairn Airfield, dated July 1928. He writes: “When Harold Pitcairn moved the family business from Bryn Athyn to Horsham in 1926, he opened the Pitcairn Airfield. The Pitcairns sold tickets for a flight in the Pitcairn Mailwing. This is the only surviving ticket, now in the Horsham Preservation and Historical Association library. In 1942, the Navy purchased the Pitcairn location for World War II operations.” The Pitcairn Mailwing aircraft family was a series of mail carrier and sport planes produced from 1927 to 1931. Today, the site is the Willow Grove Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, which closed in 2011.
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