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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-78: AM-78 was awarded to Empire Air Lines. In 1938 Bert Zimmerly founded Zimmerly Air Transport, a small local flight service airline at Lewiston ID. ZAT changed its name to Zimmerly Air Lines on April 1, 1944 flying a modest fleet of three Boeing 247's. It provided scheduled flight services from Boise to Lewiston, Pocatello and Coeur d'Alene ID. ZAL changed its name on March 1, 1946 to Empire Air Lines. AM-78 was awarded to Empire Air Lines and on September 28, 1946 it began flight service between Spokane WA and Idaho Falls ID.
EAL

78S1 460928 Spokane WA EAL George T Cooke $6.00
78S2 460928 Coeur d'Alene WA EAL George T Cooke $3.00
78S3 460928 Lewiston ID EAL George T Cooke $2.25
78S4 460928 Clarkston WA EAL George T Cooke $2.25
78S5 460928 Walla Walla WA EAL George T Cooke $4.50
78S6 460928 Pendleton OR EAL George T Cooke $7.50
78S7 460928 La Grande OR EAL George T Cooke $7.50
78S8 460928 Baker OR EAL George T Cooke $3.75
78S9 460928 Ontario OR EAL George T Cooke $3.00
78S10 460928 Boise ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $6.00
78S11 460928 Gooding ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $4.50
78S12 460928 Pocatello ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $13.50
78N13 460928 Idaho Falls ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $6.00
78N12 460928 Pocatello ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $4.50
78N11 460928 Gooding ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $3.00
78N10 460928 Boiose ID EAL Houghton H Whithed $13.50
78N9 460928 Ontario OR EAL Houghton H Whithed $3.75
78N8 460928 Baker OR EAL Houghton H Whithed $3.00
78N7 460928 La Grande OR EAL Houghton H Whithed $2.25
78N6 460928 Pendleton OR EAL Houghton H Whithed $10.50
78N5 460928 Walla Walla WA EAL George T Cooke $15.00
78NE5 460928 Walla Walla WA EAL Houghton H Whithed $4.50
78N4 460928 Clarkston WA EAL Houghton H Whithed $7.50
78N3 460928 Lewiston ID EAL Houghton H Whithed $4.50
78N2 460928 Coeur d'Alene WA EAL Houghton H Whithed $4.50

78S14 461123 Burley ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $4.50
78S15 461123 Twin Falls ID EAL Robert C Cansdale $7.50
78N15 461123 Twin Falls ID EAL Harland W Stewart $4.50
78N14 461123 Burley ID EAL Harland W Stewart $3.00

78S16 470608 Pullman WA EAL Dennis G Smilanich $6.00
78S17 470608 Moscow ID EAL Dennis G Smilanich $4.50
78N17 470608 Moscow ID EAL Dennis G Smilanich $3.00
78N16 470608 Pullman WA EAL Dennis G Smilanich $3.00

        Effective June 27, 1952 Empire Air Lines was merged into West Coast Airlines. Years later on April 17, 1968 West Coast Airlines (AM-77) and Bonanza Air Lines (AM-105) merged to become Hughes Air West.

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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