This cover was carried on the inaugural Air Mail Route 87 flight from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Wilmington, North Carolina (where it was backstamped) and is listed in the Contract Air Mail Flights (CAM) Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue as 87E43.

Perry Nahl, a former Editor-in-Chief of The American Air Mail Catalogue, prepared the cover.

The USAir (later renamed USAirways) purchase of Piedmont Airlines was approved by the Department of Transportation. The sale was completed in October 1987. The two airlines operated separately until August 5, 1989, when all operations and schedules were integrated. Piedmont ceased to exist on August 5.

US Airways was a major American airline that ceased to operate independently when the Federal Aviation Administration granted a single operating certificate for US Airways and American Airlines on April 8, 2015.