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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-40: FAM-40 was awarded to South Pacific Air Lines.
        The Dollar Steamship Company was begun by Scottich immigrant, Robert Dollar. It became one of the most profitable shipping companies in the world and to cope with the 1929 US depression changed its name to the Dollar Steamship Line. Dollar's grandsons founded South Pacific Air Lines. Using flying boats SPAL ferried passengers and mail between South Pacific Islands.
        FAM-40 was awarded to South Pacific Air Lines and on April 2, 1960 flying a Short Solent S-45 piloted by William F Warren, it inaugurated flight service from Honolulu HI to Papeete Tahiti. (Note: In December 1963 SPAL leased its route to Pan American Airways.)

F40-1

600402

Honolulu HI-Papeete Tahiti

SPAL

William F Warren

$3.75

F40-5	620314	Honolulu HI-Pago Pago American Samoa	SPAL	Claude R Turner	$200.00
F40-6	620314	Pago Pago American Samoa-Honolulu HI	SPAL	William F Warren	$11.25

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