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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-69: AM-69 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.
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69E1 450515 Minneapolis MN NA CP Wheelock $6.00
69E1f 450515 Minneapolis MN NA CP Wheelock $6.00
69E2 450515 St Paul MN NA CP Wheelock $6.00
69E3 450515 Milwaukee WI NA CP Wheelock $6.00
69E4 450515 Detroit MI NA CP Wheelock $75.00
69E4f 450515 Detroit MI NA CP Wheelock $7.50
69W5 450515 New York NY NA FH Ernst $5.25
69W5f 450515 New York NY NA FH Ernst $6.00
69W4 450515 Detroit MI NA FH Ernst $33.75
69W4f 450515 Detroit MI NA FH Ernst $3.75
69W3 450515 Milwaukee WI NA FH Ernst $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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