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Lt. George Boyle gets ready to fly a modified Curtiss JN4-H Jenny during the inauguration of U.S. airmail service in Washington, D.C. on May 15, 1918. Unfortunately, Lt. Boyle got lost and didn't arrive at his destination. The Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" was one of a series of "JN" biplanes built by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Although the Curtiss JN series was originally produced as a training aircraft for the U.S. Army, the "Jenny" (the common nickname derived from "JN-4", with an open-topped four appearing as a Y) continued after WWI as a civil aircraft, as it became the "backbone of American postwar aviation." Thousands of surplus Jennys were sold at bargain prices to private owners in the years after the war and became central to the barnstorming era that helped awaken America to civil aviation through much of the 1920s.