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Universal Air Lines System
Universal Air Lines was a subsidiary of Universal Aviation Corporation headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. It was absorbed along with 80-90 other small airlines into American Airways in 1930 which was re-named American Airlines in 1934. Universal Air Lines had daily schedules Chicago-Cleveland, Chicago-St; Louis, Kansas City-Omaha, and Tulsa-Oklahoma in 1929. Besides the Real Photo postcards there are two postcards issued by the airline.
Album by Barry Hepsley. 1 - 14 of 14 Total. 1621 Visits.
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Universal Aviation Corp. Souvenir Garden City, Kansas.
Fokker F10 NC9166 named Garden City.

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Universal Aviation Corp. Souvenir Garden City, Kansas.
Postmarked at Garden City, Kansas July 9, 1929. Person who sent the card watched the plane take off that morning.

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Universal Aviation Corp. Souvenir Garden City, Kansas.
Fokker F10 NC9166 named Garden City. Similar but slightly different from the previous card.

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Universal Aviation Corp. Garden City, Kansas.
Postmarked in 1930 at Garden City, Kansas.

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Universal Aviation Corp. Fokker F-10 NC804E.
Uncaptioned Real Photo postcard. The photographer was from Kansas City, Missouri.

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Universal Aviation Corp. Fokker F-10 NC804E.
Local photographer postcard by Cresswell's Photo Service.

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Universal Air Lines System.
Fokker F10 in flight. Regular sized postcard.

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Universal Air Lines System.
Clear postmark at Chicago, Illinois dated October 2, 1930. Card went to Germany for only 3-cents postage!

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Universal Air Lines System. Passenger & Airmail Service.
Another airline issued postcard with an image like the previous one. This card is larger measuring 3-3/4" x 6".

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Universal Air Lines System. Passenger & Airmail Service.
The back lists the cities for Passenger and Airmail service.

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Lambert Field, St. Louis. Missouri.
In the center of the card you can see the Universal hangar. Huge Sunday crowd at the airport.

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Lambert Field, St. Louis. Missouri.
AZO 4 squares stamp box. Writing on the back with the date July 10, 1936.

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Universal Air Lines System. Certificate.
This is a souvenir Certificate of Flight card for passengers Clarabelle and Billie. It is dated May 25th, 1929.

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Universal Air Lines System. Certificate.
Plain back. Not a postcard. Measures 2-1/2" x 4-1/4".

 
   
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