American Airlines added the Nation’s capital to its newest extension of transcontinental Boeing 707 jet service, using Friendship International Airport, located between Washington and Baltimore on June 7, 1959.

This cover was carried on the inaugural Boeing 707 flight from the Friendship International Airport Mail Facility in Washington, DC to Los Angeles, California (where it was backstamped) and is listed in the Jet Age Flights Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue as J-85f.