Miss Pittsburgh's fuselage was built from metal tubing covered with cotton cloth and the wings were made of spruce.

[2][3] Miss Pittsburgh could transport up to 800 pounds at a speed reaching 100 miles per hour, usually at an altitude between 1,000–5,000 ft (300–1,520 m).

Ball, formerly an auto-mobile dealer who acquired several aircraft as compensation for unpaid storage charges at the Bettis Field, an airport near McKeesport, in which he had a controlling interest.

[3] The first airmail flight took off at around noon, 21 April 1927, on a 121 mi (105 nmi; 195 km) route from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Cleveland, Ohio.

[3][4][5] As the Waco 9s became obsolete, Miss Pittsburgh found its way to Florida, where the airplane was used for advertising in the 1960s, eventually becoming derelict in New York.