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The First Air Mail Flight In The Maritimes (CANADA)

The First Air Mail Flight to P.E.I. This flight was flown on Sept. 24-29th, 1919 by pilots Capt. J. M. Stevenson and Lt. Logan Barnhill, from Truro to PEI in a Curtis JN4 ("Jenny") aircraft with a Curtis OX5 engine and bearing the registration letters G-CAAV. The "Jenny" took of from the Devere Aviation Company's grass strip.

The Devere's airstrip was in Truro, NS - more specificlly in Bible Hill, about 5 min. outside of Truro,NS, on the west side of Vimy Road it was not an airport but a small airstrip in a field. The field is still there today. Dalmar Lynds was the last pilot to take flight out of the Devere Aviation Co.'s airstrip in August of 1957. There were many air shows there on the west side of Vimy Road with many intersting aircraft, between 1920's and 1930's.