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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-74: AM-74 was awarded to Challenger Airlines. On December 31, 1941 Charles W. Hirsig II incorporated Summit Airways to engage in air transportation in Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska. After Hirsig was killed in an airplane accident on January 15, 1945, George J. Forbes became Summit's president. Summit changed its name to Challenger Airlines on January 7, 1947 and George W. Snyder Jr. was elected President and General Manager. Snyder moved all operations to Salt Lake City UT. AM-74 was awarded to Challenger and on May 10, 1947 it began air flight services between Denver CO and Salt Lake City UT.
MAL

74N1 470513 Denver CO CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.00
74N1f 470513 Denver CO CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.75
74W2 470513 Cheyenne WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $6.00
74W2f 470513 Cheyenne WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.75
74W3 470513 Laramie WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $4.50
74W4 470513 Rawlins WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $4.50
74W5 470513 Rock Springs WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $4.50
74W6 470513 Kemmerer WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $4.50
74E7 470513 Salt Lake City UT CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.00
74E7f 470513 Salt Lake City UT CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.00
74E6 470513 Kemmerer WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.75
74E5 470513 Rock Springs WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.00
74E4 470513 Rawlins WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.75
74E3 470513 Laramie WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.75
74S2 470513 Cheyenne WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.75
74S2f 470513 Cheyenne WY CA Albert R Hall Jr $3.75

74S8 470616 Billings MT CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74S8f 470616 Billings MT CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74S9 470616 Lovell WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75
74S10 470616 Powell WY CA Albert R Hall $4.50
74S11 470616 Cody WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75
74S12 470616 Greybull WY CA Albert R Hall $4.50
74S13 470616 Worland WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75
74SW14 470616 Riverton WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75
74SW15 470616 Lander WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75
74W16 470616 Rock Springs WY CA Albert R Hall $4.50
74W17 470616 Kemmerer WY CA Albert R Hall $6.00
74E18 470616 Salt Lake City UT CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74E18f 470616 Salt Lake City UT CA Albert R Hall $2.25
74E17 470616 Kemmerer WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75
74NE16 470616 Rock Springs WY CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74N15 470616 Lander WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75
74N14 470616 Riverton WY CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74N13 470616 Worland WY CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74N12 470616 Greybull WY CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74N11 470616 Cody WY CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74N10 470616 Powell WY CA Albert R Hall $3.00
74N9 470616 Lovell WY CA Albert R Hall $3.75

74NW19 470710 Rawlins WY CA Myron W Reynolds $7.50
74SE20 470710 Riverton WY CA Sam Grande $4.50
74SE21 470710 Lander WY CA Sam Grande $6.00

74N22 470801 Greeley CO CA LS Keller $2.25
74S22 470801 Greeley CO CA WA McCrystal $3.75

CA
Douglas DC-3

74N23 490701 Vernal UT CA RD Nicholson $2.25
74W23 490701 Vernal UT CA Harry Mitchell $3.75

        Challenger Airlines of Salt Lake City UT together with Monarch Air Lines of Denver CO and Arizona Airways of Phoenix AZ merged on June 1, 1950 to form Frontier Airlines headquartered at Stapleton Field in Denver CO initially flying Douglas DC-3's and later Convair 340's and 580's. Frontier served some of the smaller underdeveloped areas of the great western plains and the Rocky Mountain States.

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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