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I saw the (award-winning) PAPA float in the Butter and Egg Days Parade. Did the first airmail flight really originate in Petaluma?

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I saw the (award-winning) PAPA float in the Butter and Egg Days Parade. Did the first airmail flight really originate in Petaluma?

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Yes! The first U.S. Postmaster-sanctioned airmail flight departed Petaluma on February 17, 1911, bound for Santa Rosa.