Earle Ovington

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Earle Ovington (1879 - 1936) was an American aeronautical engineer, aviator and inventor, and served as a lab assistant to Thomas Edison. Ovington piloted the first official airmail flight in the US in 1911, from Garden City, New York to Mineola, New York. He delivered 640 letters and 1,280 postcards, including a letter to himself from the United States Postal Service designating him as "Official Air Mail Pilot #1."

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Categories: 1879 births | 1936 deaths | American inventors | American aviators | American aerospace engineers | Aviation biography stubs | American engineer stubs

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