Orville Wright, Inventor of the Airplane, Signs an Air Mail Cover with a Kitty Hawk Postmark, October 12, 1937, and a Cachet of the First All North Carolina Air Mail Flights showing the Wright Brothers National Memorial in the Middle

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Orville Wright, along with his brother Wilbur, designed and built the first airplane, and at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 13, 1903, accomplished the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft.

An attractive envelope with a large cachet at the left showing the Kill Devil Hill monument, later renamed...

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Orville Wright, Inventor of the Airplane, Signs an Air Mail Cover with a Kitty Hawk Postmark, October 12, 1937, and a Cachet of the First All North Carolina Air Mail Flights showing the Wright Brothers National Memorial in the Middle

Orville Wright, along with his brother Wilbur, designed and built the first airplane, and at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 13, 1903, accomplished the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft.

An attractive envelope with a large cachet at the left showing the Kill Devil Hill monument, later renamed the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, cancelled at Kitty Hawk on October 12, 1937, signed by Orville Wright next to the cachet, with an orange 6 cent postage stamp. This is our first Kitty Hawk cachet envelope signed by either of the Wrights we have ever had.

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