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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-76: AM-76 was awarded to Southwest Airways. In 1941 John Howard Connelly (former test pilot) and Hollywood agent/producer, Leland Hayward under the name Southwest Airways founded the Thunderbird I, Thunderbird II and Falcon cadet flying schools in Arizona, as well as a maintenance depot for overhauling training aircraft and a wartime air cargo line.
        By the end of WW-II Southwest Airways was the largest training contractor in the US training more than 17,000 pilots. After the war Southwest began scheduled airline services and was awarded a three-year experimental charter from the Civil Aeronautics Board on May 22, 1946 for a feeder airline service. AM-76 was awarded to Southwest and on December 2, 1946 it began flight service between Los Angeles and San Francisco CA.
SA

76N1 461202 Los Angeles CA SA JW Brown $3.00
76N1f 461202 Los Angeles CA SA JW Brown $6.00
76N2 461202 Oxnard CA SA JW Brown $2.25
76N3 461202 Ventura CA SA JW Brown $3.00
76N4 461202 Santa Barbara CA SA JW Brown $3.75
76N5 461202 Sna Luis Obispo CA SA JW Brown $2.25
76N6 461202 Coalinga CA SA Rudolph C Couk $3.75
76N7 461202 Monterey CA SA AT Flickinger $3.75
76N8 461202 Santa Cruz CA SA AT Flickinger $3.75
76S9 461202 San Francisco CA SA Rudolph C Couk $3.00
76S9f 461202 San Francisco CA SA Rudolph C Couk $30.00
76S8 461202 Santa Cruz CA SA Rudolph C Couk $3.00
76S7 461202 Monterey CA SA Rudolph C Couk $3.00
76S6 461202 Coalinga CA SA Rudolph C Couk $2.25
76S5 461202 Sna Luis Obispo CA SA Rudolph C Couk $3.75
76S4 461202 Santa Barbara CA SA Rudolph C Couk $7.50
76S3 461202 Ventura CA SA Rudolph C Couk $7.50
76S2 461202 Oxnard CA SA Rudolph C Couk $4.50

76S10 461214 Santa Maria CA SA John R Stevenson $2.25
76N10 461215 Santa Maria CA SA AT Flickinger $4.50

SA
Douglas DC-3

76N11 470115 San Francisco CA SA Rudolph C Couk $3.00
76N11f 470115 San Francisco CA SA Rudolph C Couk $33.75
76N12 470115 Oakland CA SA Rudolph C Couk $4.50
76N13 470115 Vallejo CA SA Rudolph C Couk $2.25
76N14 470115 Sacramento CA SA Rudolph C Couk $6.00
76N15 470115 Marysville CA SA Rudolph C Couk $4.50
76N16 470115 Chico CA SA Rudolph C Couk $6.00
76N17 470115 Red Bluff CA SA Rudolph C Couk $22.50
76S18 470115 Reading CA SA Michael M Foydl $2.25
76S17 470115 Red Bluff CA SA Michael M Foydl $4.50
76S16 470115 Chico CA SA Michael M Foydl $3.00
76S15 470115 Marysville CA SA Michael M Foydl $3.75
76S14 470115 Sacramento CA SA Michael M Foydl $7.50
76S13 470115 Vallejo CA SA Michael M Foydl $6.00
76S12 470115 Oakland CA SA Michael M Foydl $16.50

76N19 470214 San Francisco CA SA JW Brown $4.50
76N19f 470214 San Francisco CA SA JW Brown $27.00
76N20 470214 Santa Rosa CA SA JW Brown $3.00
76N21 470214 Ukiah CA SA JW Brown $2.25
76N22 470214 Fort Bragg CA SA JW Brown $3.00
76S23 470214 Eureka CA SA JW Brown $3.00
76S22 470214 Fort Bragg CA SA JW Brown $3.75
76S21 470214 Ukiah CA SA JW Brown $3.00
76S20 470214 Santa Rosa CA SA JW Brown $3.75

76N24 470310 San Jose CA SA Rudolph C Couk $2.25

76N25 470401 Redding CA SA Robert Coleman $4.50
76N26 470401 Yreka CA SA Robert Coleman $2.25
76S26 470401 Yreka CA SA Robert Coleman $4.50
76S27 470401 Medford CA SA Robert Coleman $4.50

76N28 470401 Oakland CA SA Robert Coleman $30.00

76N29 470427 Eureka CA SA TR Mitchell $9.00
76SW30 470427 Metford OR SA JW Brown $9.00

SA
Douglas DC-3

76N31 480901 Crescent City CA SA TR Mitchell $2.25
76S31 480901 Crescent City CA SA TR Mitchell $3.75

76S32 490926 Paso Robles CA SA Exline Brown $2.25
76S33 490926 Oroville CA SA James Douglas $3.75
76N33 490926 Oroville CA SA James Douglas $2.25
76N32 490926 Paso Robles CA SA John Dodge $4.50

76S34 550307 Stockton CA SA Marvin Yarnell $3.75
76S35 550307 Burbank CA SA Jack Cromer $3.00
76N35 550307 Burbank CA SA Jack Cromer $6.00
76N34 550307 Stockton CA SA Jack Robinson $6.00

76E35Af 570929 Los Angeles CA SA John R Stevenson $22.50
76E36 570929 Palmdale CA SA John R Stevenson $2.25
76E37 570929 Lancaster CA SA John R Stevenson $2.25
76W37A 570929 Las Vegas NV SA EA Clark $22.50
76W37 570929 Lancaster CA SA EA Clark $3.75
76W36 570929 Palmdale CA SA EA Clark $3.75

        On March 6, 1958 Southwest Airways changed its name to Pacific Air Lines.

PAL
Douglas DC-3

76N38 590901 Crescent City CA PAL EA Clark $7.50
76S39 590901 Portland OR PAL Rudolph C Couk $2.25

PAL
Martin 202

76N40 620508 Palmdale CA PAL Harold R Fitzsimmons $27.00
76N41 620508 Lancaster CA PAL Harold R Fitzsimmons $37.50
76S42 620508 Inyokern CA PAL Harold R Fitzsimmons $3.00

76N43 620508 Fresno CA PAL Wayne A Voights $3.00
76S43 620508 Fresno CA PAL Jack E Gladney $10.50

76E44 620601 Sacramento CA PAL Fred A Merha $19.50
76W45 620601 Reno NV PAL Fred A Merha $2.25

76N46 620601 Long Beach CA PAL EA Clark $3.00

76N47 620630 San Diego CA PAL EA Clark $3.00

PAL
Martin 404

76E48 631027 Tahoe Valley CA PAL EA Clark $2.25
76W48 631027 Tahoe Valley CA PAL EA Clark $6.00

        On April 17, 1968 West Coast Airlines (AM-77) and Bonanza Air Lines (AM-105) merged to become Hughes Air West.

HAW
Douglas DC-9

76E49 720701 Lake Havasu AZ HAW John H Tuener $2.25
76W49 720701 Lake Havasu AZ HAW Fred Valentine $4.50

76S50 731215 Phoenix AZ HAW Stuart T Nielson $3.75
76S51 731215 Tucson AZ HAW Stuart T Nielson $2.25
76N52 731215 Guaymas Mexico HAW Stuart T Nielson $10.50

76NE53 780906 Phoenix AZ HAW Charles L Kinamon $4.50
76SW54 780906 Des Moines IA HAW Charles L Kinamon $4.50
76SW55 780906 Milwaukee WI HAW Charles L Kinamon $4.00

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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