In 1925, the U.S. Postal Service began awarding contracts to commercial airlines to deliver air mail. Philadelphia-based Pitcairn Aviation was awarded contract air mail route number 25 (CAM-25) between Miami, St. Petersburg (Piper-Fuller Field in the Jungle), and Atlanta on December 1, 1928.
The official CAM-25 air mail postage stamp:
St. Petersburg's first airport, originally named Fuller Flying Field, was located west of Tyrone Square Mall in the Jungle.
For more information, see previous post: St. Petersburg's First Airport Was in the Jungle - Fuller Flying Field.
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| Current neighborhood map with Piper-Fuller Flying Field map superimposed. |
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| Pitcairn mail airplane (credit: Smithsonian National Postal Museum) |
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| credit: aerodacious.com |
