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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-91: AM-91 was awarded to Parks Air Lines. Detroit Aircraft Corporation was formed in 1929 as a parent corporation to take control of several airline and aircraft firms financially hit by the Depression. Parks Air Lines Limited was one of those corporations taken under the DAC umbrella. Parks had built training aircraft for its own companies including Parks Air Transport, Parks Air College and Parks Air Lines. AM-91 was awarded to Parks Air Lines and on September 15, 1950 it inaugurated flight service between East St Louis and Chicago IL flying DC-3's. Two weeks after Parks' first flights, on September 26, 1950 the Civil Aeronautics Board nullified the award to Parks in favor of Ozark Air Lines.
PAL

91N1 500915 East St Louis IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.00
91N2 500915 St Louis MO PAL Walter S Blandford $3.75
91N2f 500915 St Louis MO PAL Walter S Blandford $3.00
91N3 500915 Springfield IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.00
91N4 500915 Decatur IL PAL Walter S Blandford $2.25
91N5 500915 Champaign IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.00
91N6 500915 Urbana IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.00
91S7 500915 Chicago IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.75
91S7f 500915 Chicago IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.00
91S6 500915 Urbana IL PAL Walter S Blandford $4.50
91S5 500915 Champaign IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.75
91S4 500915 Decatur IL PAL Walter S Blandford $3.00
91S3 500915 Springfield IL PAL Walter S Blandford $4.50
91S2 500915 St Louis MO PAL Walter S Blandford $13.50
91S2f 500915 St Louis MO PAL Walter S Blandford $4.50

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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