The Route: Iowa City to North Platte

Pilots flying the mail cross-country in 1921 followed these directions to find landmarks along the way.

DH-4 mailplanes at Fort Crook airfield, Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1920s. (NASM (SI-89-12152))

By Tony Reichhardt

airspacemag.com
September 2, 2008

U. S. Air Mail Service
Pilots’ Directions (February 1921)

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Iowa City to Omaha

Miles from Chicago

191. Iowa City, Iowa—On the eastern bank of the Iowa River. The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific has four lines running out of Iowa City. The air-mail field is south of town and on the western bank of the river. The field is small and is longer east and west.

215. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.

233. Chicago & North Western Railway.

240. Montezuma—Directly on course on Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.

249. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.

253. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.—Short line.

255. Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway.

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