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Film reel of the first Air Mail flight from the Lawrence Municipal Airport, May 19,1938 filmed by Paul Leslie of Summer Street, Methuen.  This particular flight came to Lawrence from the Plum Island Airport (Newburyport, MA). The film was given to David Fletcher after Mr. Leslie’s death in the 1980s. Mr. Fletcher kept the film safe for many years before gifting it to Lawrence Municipal Airport on June 6^th 2025, where director Francisco A. Urena and the Lawrence Municipal Airport had the film digitized and then donated the original reel and digital file to LHC on July 15, 2025. 

The plane in the used for the flight is now in a museum in CA.