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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-48: AM-48 was awarded to Mid-Continent Airlines. Hanford's Tri-State Airlines began in 1928 as a small flying school in Sioux City Iowa by aviation pioneer, Arthur Hanford Jr. Hanford began offering charter service and schedule flights from Omaha NE to Sioux City IA, Minneapolis-Saint Paul MN and Bismark ND. In July 1936 Thomas Fortune Ryan III acquired controlling interest in Hanford and after being named executive vice president moved Hanford's general offices to Kansas City MO. Ten-passenger Lockheed Electra's were purchased. In August 1938 Hanford Tri-State was changed to Mid-Continent Airlines. In 1947 Mid-Continent put into service Douglas DC-3 aircraft for AM-80 routes from Tulsa OK to Houston TX.
MCA

80S1 470201 Tulsa OK MCA LH Mouden $4.50
80S2 470201 Tyler TX MCA LH Mouden $6.00
80N3 470201 Houston TX MCA GH Phillips $3.75
80N2 470201 Tyler TX MCA GH Phillips $4.50

80N4 470715 Longview TX MCA EK Huschka $2.25
80S4 470715 Longview TX MCA CL Archer $4.50

80N5 470801 Paris TX MCA Allen D Adams $2.25
80N6 470801 Muskogee OK MCA WA Pickering $3.75
80S6 470801 Muskogee OK MCA LW Vinther $4.50
80S5 470801 Paris TX MCA WA Pickering $3.75

MCA
Convair 240

80N7 520501 McAlester OK MCA Wade Mumaw $2.25
80S7 520501 McAlester OK MCA LW Vinther $4.50

        Mid-Continent Airlines was absorbed by Braniff International Airways in August 1952.

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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