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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-60: AM-60 was awarded to Continental Air Lines. Continental Air Lines began service in 1934 as Varney Speed Lanes, named after one of its initial owners, Walter T Varney. VSL operated out of El Paso TX with flight service through Las Vegas NV, Albuquerque, Santa Fe NM to Pueblo CO. At the end of 1934 VSL was renamed Varney Air Transport and on July 1, 1937 changed its name to Continental Air Lines after new owner, Robert Six had taken a 40% ownership with Varney's co-founder, Louis Mueller. Six relocated Continental's headquarters to Stapleton Airport in Denver CO in October, 1937. AM-60 was awarded to CAL and on March 1, 1944 it began flight service between Denver CO and Kansas City MO flying Lockheed Lodestar's.
CAL

60E1 440301 Denver CO CAL OR Haueter $3.75
60E1f 440301 Denver CO CAL OR Haueter $4.50
60E2 440301 Topeka KS CAL OR Haueter $3.75
60W3 440301 Kansas City MO CAL GW Johnson $3.75
60W3f 440301 Kansas City MO CAL GW Johnson $3.75
60W2 440301 Topeka KS CAL GW Johnson $3.75

R60W5 450601 to Hutchinson KS CAL -- $4.50
60E4 450601 Hutchinson KS CAL OR Haueter $3.75
R60E5 450601 to Hutchinson KS CAL -- $4.50
60W4 450601 Hutchinson KS CAL OR Haueter $6.00

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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