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Airmail pilot Ira Biffle
Photographer: E. J. Pearson
Date created: c. 1927
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.
National Postal Museum, Curatorial Photographic Collection
Photo ID: A.2006-0005
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