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The Wright brothers

First known commercial air cargo

Monday Nov 7, 1910
Dayton, Ohio, U.S.

The Wright Company transported the first known commercial air cargo on November 7, 1910, by flying two bolts of dress silk 65 miles (105 km) from Dayton to Columbus, Ohio, for the Morehouse-Martens Department Store, which paid a $5,000 fee.


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