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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-65: AM-65 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. NE was awarded AM-65 and on May 1, 1945 began flight service between Boston MA and New York NY.
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65S1 450501 Boston MA NE Milton H Anderson $7.50
65S1f 450501 Boston MA NE Milton H Anderson $13.50
65N2 450501 New York NY NE SA Short $7.50
65N2f 450501 New York NY NE SA Short $4.50

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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