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Page FAM021 (Revised 12/16/2007)

Background: The Post Office Department designated any contract air mail route flown by an airline into/from a foreign country into/from the US as a "Foreign Air Mail" route. The Foreign Air Mail routes became known as FAM's.

FAM-21: FAM-21 was awarded to Boston-Maine Airways.
        Boston-Maine Airways was founded as a Pan Am contract carrier on July 20, 1931 by the Boston and Maine Railroad and Maine Central Railroad offering air service from Boston to Bangor via Portland. In 1933 Boston-Maine combined with Central Vermont Airways and on August 11, 1933 they began scheduled contract service for National Airways which continued till 1937.
        FAM-21 was awarded to Boston-Maine Airways and on January 3, 1941 flying a Lockheed 10 Electra piloted by Sandford B Chandler, it inaugurated flight service from Bangor ME to Mocton New Brunswick Canada.

BMA
Lockheed 10 Electra

F21-1 410103 Bangor ME-Moncton New Brunswick Canada BMA Sandford B Chandler $7.50
F21-2 400103 Moncton New Brunswick Canada-Bangor ME BMA SA Short $6.00

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