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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-48: FAM-48 was awarded to Northeast Airlines.
        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. Subsequently, they adopted the name Northeast Airlines.
        During WW-II Northeast pioneered regular transatlantic service for the military under contract from the US Army Air Force. After the war NE applied for authorization to operate passenger service across the Atlantic but the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded the Atlantic routes to Pan American World Airways and TWA. In 1945 NE purchased the small Boston based Mayflower Airlines which added the communities of Cape Cod and Nantucket Island to NE's route structure.
        FAM-48 was awarded to Northeast Airlines and on May 15, 1968 it inaugurated jet flight service from Boston MA and New York NY to Nassau Bahamas.

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Boeing 727

F48-1 680515 Boston MA-Nassau Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $3.75
F48-1f 680515 Boston MA-Nassau Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $3.00
F48-4 680515 Nassau Bahamas-Boston MA NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $53.00
F48-2a 680515 New York NY-Freeport Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $4.50
F48-2fa 680515 New York NY-Freeport Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $3.75
F48-2ua 680515 United Nations NY-Freeport Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $4.50
F48-2 680515 New York NY-Nassau Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $4.50
F48-2f 680515 New York NY-Nassau Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $3.75
F48-2u 680515 United Nations NY-Nassau Bahamas NA Russell Worth & Morris Marston $4.50

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Boeing 727

F48-10 690314 Boston MA-Hamilton Bermuda NA R Ward & S Henderson $3.75
F48-10f 690314 Boston MA-Hamilton Bermuda NA R Ward & S Henderson $3.00
F48-11 690314 Hamilton Bermuda-Boston MA NA R Ward & S Henderson $7.50

F48-15 710206 Newark NJ-Nassau Bahamas NA $345.00
F48-15f 710206 Newark NJ-Nassau Bahamas NA $3.75
F48-16 710206 Nassau Bahamas-Newark NJ NA $60.00

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McDonnell Douglas DC-9

F48-20 711010 Boston MA-West End Grand Bahama Island NA William Cook & Charles Williams $4.50
F48-20f 711010 Boston MA-West End Grand Bahama Island NA William Cook & Charles Williams $3.00
F48-22 711010 West End Grand Bahama Island-Boston MA NA William Cook & Charles Williams $45.00
F48-21 711010 New York NY-West End Grand Bahama Island NA William Cook & Charles Williams $3.75
F48-21f 711010 New York NY-West End Grand Bahama Island NA William Cook & Charles Williams $3.00
F48-21u 711010 United Nations NY-West End Grand Bahama Island NA William Cook & Charles Williams $4.50
F48-22a 711010 West End Grand Bahama Island-New York NY NA William Cook & Charles Williams $45.00

        On August 1, 1972 Northeast Airlines merged with Delta Air Lines.

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