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Commemorative medal celebrating Eastern Air Transport’s first flight between New York, Atlanta, and Miami in 1930.  It features a flight-path map of the Eastern United States flanked on the left by an allegorical female figure in classical dress holding a propeller, and on the right by Hermes, who in Greek mythology was the messenger god between earth and the heavens.

Eastern Air Transport came into being in 1930, when an airmail carrier called Pitcairn Aviation was sold to North American Aviation.  Passenger air service was added in August 1930 and rapidly expanded southward from New York during the next few months, so that on December 10, the first passenger flight between Atlanta and New York took place.  Despite the inscription on this medal, service between Atlanta and Miami was actually added three weeks later, on January 1, 1931.  At the time, Atlanta’s airport was known as Candler Field.  In 1934, the company was renamed Eastern Air Lines, and remained in operation until 1991.

Inscription:  Commemorating the Inaugural Flight—New York-Atlanta-Miami Passenger Service December 10th 1930.

References:

Golden, Randy.  “Air Mail and Candler Field.”  About North Georgia.  1999. http://ngeorgia.com/feature/airmail.html (22 March 2006).

Sandvig, Shaun.  “The History of Eastern.”  Eastern Virtual Airlines.  1998-2006.  http://evair.com/ealhistory.htm (22 March 2006).