Air Mail Service Began:
January 3, 1921
Air Mail Service Ended:
August 31, 1927
Total Hours Flown:
1444.24
Total Miles Flown:
132,986
Assignments:
Maywood, Illinois
February 1, 1926 – Cleveland, Ohio
February 16, 1927 – Maywood, Illinois
July 14, 1927 – Hadley Field, New Jersey
February 1, 1926 – Cleveland, Ohio
February 16, 1927 – Maywood, Illinois
July 14, 1927 – Hadley Field, New Jersey
- Courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
On December 17, 1928, when airmail pilot John Ordway Webster's plane runs out of gas while he is lost in a fog flying east from Cleveland, he is forced to bail out. Little else is known of Webster's career as an airmail pilot other than his service dates and location assignments.
