mail plane
Airborne letter carrier
A mail plane is an aircraft used to transport postal mail.
Before reliable ground infrastructure and during the early days of aviation, mail planes provided crucial long-distance delivery: The mail plane flew through storms to reach remote villages.
Now largely replaced by commercial cargo flights, the term evokes an earlier era of aviation.
- airmailPost sent aloft
- propellerRotating blades creating thrust
- cargoTransported goods
- cargo holdVessel's storage area
- postageFee for mailing
aviation · open cockpit · delivery · pilot · stamps · hangar · runway · landing strip · parcels · courier · wings · letters · cockpit · envelope · flight · flight path · aerial · dispatch
- vehiclescar, bus, truck, van, bike
- aircraftairliner, fighter, jets, glider, helicopters
- mailletter, letters, email, envelope, postcard
- postal servicepost office, sorting machine, stamps, stamp, letter carriers
- postal systempost office, stamp, stamps, envelope, postage stamp
- historical maillove letter, telegram, postcard, airmail, registered letter
primary cargo/purpose
mail planepassenger jet
Aircraft for fare-paying travelers
airliner · passenger aircraft · troop transport · fighter plane · bomber
mail, plane, mails, mailed, mailing, mailer, mailman, mailbox, planes