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Background: The Air Mail Act of 1925 (Kelly Act) authorized the postmaster general to contract for domestic airmail service with commercial air carriers. It also set airmail rates and the level of cash subsidies to be paid to companies that carried the mail. By transferring airmail operations to private companies, the government effectively would help create the commercial aviation industry. Various routes were designated and contracts for carrying the mail over these routes were then awarded to many different private air service companies. The Contract Air Mail routes became known as CAM's.

AM-45: AM-45 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.

45N1 400601 Minneapolis MN NA KB Haugen $4.50

45N1f 400601 Minneapolis MN NA KB Haugen $22.50

45N2 400601 Saint Paul MN NA KB Haugen $3.75

45S4 400601 Superior MN NA KB Haugen $3.75

45S3 400601 Duluth MN NA KB Haugen $2.25

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