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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-53: AM-53 was awarded to Chicago and Southern Air Lines. Pacific Seaboard Air Lines was organized on June 15, 1933. Flying Bellanca CH-300's PSAL carried passengers on the West Coast from Los Angeles (Grand Central Air Terminal at Glendale) to San Francisco (Mills Field). After the February 1934 cancellation and reinstatement of new commercial air mail carrying contracts over re-designed revised Post Office routes in late June 1934, PSAL began flying "The Valley Level Route" between Chicago IL and New Orleans LA. Appropriately, PSAL changed its name to Chicago & Southern Air Lines in 1935. AM-53 was awarded to C&S and on June 12, 1941 it began air mail flight service between Memphis TN and Houston TX.
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53S1 410612 Memphis TN C&S HD Gossett $3.75
53S2 410612 Shreveport LA C&S HD Gossett $7.50
53N3 410612 Houston TX C&S HD Gossett $3.00
53N2 410612 Shreveport LA C&S HD Gossett $3.75

R53N5 430301 to Little Rock AR C&S $9.00
53S4 430301 Little Rock AR C&S AJ Stauber $7.50
R53S5 430301 to Little Rock AR C&S $9.00
53N4 430301 Little Rock AR C&S AJ Stauber $7.50

53S6 450520 Detroit MI C&S RP Eames $67.50
53S6f 450520 Detroit MI C&S RP Eames $6.00
53S7 450520 Toledo OH C&S RP Eames $13.50
53S8 450520 Indianapolis IN C&S RP Eames $33.75
53S8f 450520 Indianapolis IN C&S RP Eames $6.00
53S9 450520 Evansville IN C&S RP Eames $16.50
53N10 450520 Memphis TN C&S JRA Werth $6.00
53N9 450520 Evansville IN C&S JRA Werth $13.50
53N8 450520 Indianapolis IN C&S JRA Werth $33.75
53N8f 450520 Indianapolis IN C&S JRA Werth $6.00
53N7 450520 Toledo OH C&S JRA Werth $19.50

R53N12 450715 to El Dorado AR C&S $3.75
53S11 450715 El Dorado AR C&S Earl C Rockwood $6.00
R53S12 450715 to El Dorado AR C&S $3.75
53N11 450715 El Dorado AR C&S MJ Ernst $10.50

R53N14 451015 to Fort Wayne IN C&S $6.00
53S13 451015 Fort Wayne IN C&S RP Eames $7.50
R53S14 451015 to Fort Wayne IN C&S $6.00
53N13 451015 Fort Wayne IN C&S JG Enos $3.75

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R53N16 460401 to Paducah KY C&S $4.50
53S15 460401 Paducah KY C&S CC Haas $4.50
R53S16 460401 to Paducah KY C&S $4.50
53N15 460401 Paducah KY C&S RC Granberry $3.00

53N17 470201 Beaumont TX C&S Earl C Rockwood $4.50
53N18 470201 Port Arthur TX C&S Earl C Rockwood $6.00
53S18 470201 Port Arthur TX C&S Earl C Rockwood $4.50
53S17 470201 Beaumont TX C&S Earl C Rockwood $3.75

INDEX: First Flights by CAM Route #

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

INDEX: First Flights by AM Route #

33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

INDEX: First Flights by Experimental Route #

1001 1002

INDEX: First Flights by AM Route #

49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65
66 67 68 69 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 84
86 87 88 90 91 93 94 96 97 98 99 100 101 103 105
106 107 111 119 120 121 139 140 141 143 144 148 172

INDEX: First Flights by Air Taxi Services Route #

288 289 290 291 292 293 295 296 297 298
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