web-catalog        FAM Foreign Air Mail First Flights F95

Aerodacious (Aviation + Audacious = Aerodacious) eMail: Aerodacious Page FAM095 (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-95: FAM-95 was awarded to Northwest Airlines.
        After a series of crashes Charles Dickinson went out of business and on October 1, 1926 Northwest Airways took over their routes (CAM-9). NWA was incorporated on August 1, 1926 as a Michigan corporation formed by a group of Detroit and Twin-Cities businessmen using borrowed aircraft. NWA immediately purchased three Stinson Detroiter aircraft capable of carrying the mail and three passengers at 85 mph. On April 16, 1934 Northwest Airlines (NA) was incorporated replacing the former Northwest Airways. In 1939 NA received its first DC-3's.
        FAM-95 was awarded to Northwest Airlines and on December 2, 1948 it inaugurated flight service from Seattle WA to Honolulu HI.

F95-1	481202	Seattle WA-Honolulu HI	NA	Mal B Freeburg	$3.00
F95-1f	481202	Seattle WA-Honolulu HI	NA	Mal B Freeburg	$3.00
F95-3	481202	Honolulu HI-Seattle WA	NA	RJ McNown	$3.00
F95-2	481202	Portland OR-Honolulu HI	NA	Mal B Freeburg	$3.00
F95-3a	481202	Honolulu HI-Portland OR	NA	RJ McNown	$4.50

Boeing 707

F95-5	671217	Seattle WA-Hilo HI	NA	Don Leonard	$11.25
F95-5f	671217	Seattle WA-Hilo HI	NA	Don Leonard	$11.25
F95-6	671222	Honolulu HI-Hilo HI	NA	Don Leonard	$18.75
F95-7	671222	Hilo HI-Seattle WA	NA	Don Leonard	$3.75

F95-10

681215

Portland OR-Hilo HI

NA

--

$270.00

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

12

14

15

17

18

19

20

21

22

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

38

40

42

45

46

48

59

95

98

eMail: Aerodacious