Aviation history is made in 1934 with inauguration of air mail service
AN aircraft carrying more than 2000 letters took off from the Inverness Municipal Aerodrome, marking the start of Britain's first inland air mail service.
Bound for Kirkwall on Orkney, the Highland Airways' plane was piloted by Captain E. E. Fresson who made the return flight with several thousand letters.
Sir Frederic Williamson, director of postal services, accompanied the letters on the flights in June. In launching the service, he said it marked an epoch in postal development as it was the first time a regular air mail service had been established in Great Britain and also the first time an inland air mail service had been authorised to fly the new Royal Air Mail pennant.
The mail included exchange letters between the Provosts of Inverness and Kirkwall.
