Shown below is a postal cover which commemorates the first air-mail flight to Marinduque, October 30, 1931.
Research has shown the addressee, Major I. F. Peak, as a Flight Surgeon in the U.S. Army Air Corps stationed in Fort Nichols in Manila.
Information found from the Airpost Journal, February 1932, Page 27 report of Philippine First Flights is as follows:
The U.S. Army Air Corps (squadron stationed at Clark Field) Fort Stotsenburg has been lately very active with pioneering new Air-trails or new routes, and made several First Flights and pioneers, transporting Air Mail in due official way, previous announcement and corresponding permits or authorization in very case from the Bureau of Posts of the Philippine Government and in accordance of Rules and Regulations established. All were carried in mail bags as regular official Air-Mail, with its proper Way-bills of Dispatch, etc.
Several of these First flight covers to various points in the Philippines can be located during the 1931 timeframe.
Where exactly the airplane landed in Boac (if it did) is a mystery. A Post war photo I have shows a very primitive air strip located somewhere along the Boac River. It is also possible that the mail bag was air dropped as was documented in other locations.
