Al Gilhousen: MOTION PICTURE STUNT PILOT AND CONTRACT AIR MAIL PILOT

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GILHOUSEN, Al.
MOTION PICTURE STUNT PILOT AND CONTRACT AIR MAIL PILOT.
(1898- ). Flight instruction from Frank DeLay at Venice CA (1920); Transport Pilot Rating no. 539 (1928)
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; at the time of his 1928 application for a Contract Air Mail Pilot's Certificate he had been a barnstormer and flown for the movies and logged approximately 2000 hours; flew air mail for Pacific Air Transport on CAM route 8 (1928-33); flew as a motion picture stunt pilot and was an air mail pilot for United Air Lines. Spelled Gilhausen in some sources but his Air Mail Pilot Certificate confirms Gilhousen.
[1015] [0812]
[0232].
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A philatelic cover approximately 3.5" X 5" NOT canceled on the obverse,it bears a stamped cachet FIRST FLIGHT AIR MAIL ROUTE AM 8 P.O.D. SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 27 1933 and is backstamped SAN DIEGO 28 FEB 1933. Signed Al Gilhousen, Pilot P.A.T.  Perfect!
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