7/15/2023 0 Comments Dh4 mailplane 249 at san diego![]() ![]() Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.ĭayton Wright DH-4 Mailplane #249 Color Slides, NASM.2022.0044, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Hackbarth is visible in several of the pictures, and some show the aircraft taking off or in flight. "Bill" Hackbarth and the Air Mail Pioneers. This collection consists of sixteen 35mm color slides of photographs taken by Kenneth Olsen showing the Dayton Wright DH-4 Mailplane #249 at the Elko Airport in Nevada after its reconstruction by J. Slides had numbers written on the mounts when they were received in the Archives and they were arranged in numerical order by those numbers. In 1968, Olsen was working at a seismic station in the Elko, Nevada area and took photographs of Dayton Wright DH-4 Mailplane #249 while it was at the Elko Airport.Īrranged, described, and encoded by Jessamyn Lloyd, 2022. Kenneth Olsen worked for Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, later Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, from around 1958 until the late 1990s. Dayton Wright DH-4 Mailplane #249 was donated to Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum by the Air Mail Pioneers and, as of August 1922, is currently on loan for display at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum. After the reconstruction was complete, Hackbarth flew "Old 249" on a transcontinental west to east flight, arriving in Washington, DC on May 9, 1968. Hackbarth and the Air Mail Pioneers resumed work on the aircraft and located a new Liberty engine to replace the one that was destroyed thanks to the media attention that resulted from the story of the reconstruction and the fire. After many months of work, a wildfire consumed Hackbarth's ranch and the Dayton Wright DH-4 Mailplane #249 along with it. Hackbarth and the Air Mail Pioneers Association planned to reconstruct the aircraft using as much of the original airplane as was useable in time for the 50th anniversary of the air mail service which was to be celebrated on May 15, 1968. The DH-4 was 30 feet, 5 inches (9. "Bill" Hackbarth and retrieved in pieces by a local rancher and his son. The airplane was produced by several manufacturers in Europe and the United States. Boonstra was able to exit the badly damaged aircraft and seek help and the mail was eventually recovered, but the aircraft remained in place until it was located by J. Henry George Boonstra was flying Dayton Wright DH-4 Mailplane #249 on Decemwhen he crashed into Porcupine Ridge near Coalsville, UT. To view items in this collection, use the Online Finding Aid
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