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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-1002: AM-1002 was awarded to All American Aviation. All American Aviation (AAA) was founded in 1937 by the "du Pont" brothers (Richard C & Alexis F). AAA was successful winning the bid from the Post Office Department for two experimental air mail routes. This experimental air service was to test the feasibility of feeder lines to serve the smaller communities where airport facilities or volume of mail were insufficient to justify full air mail service. It would radiate from terminal city hubs and would utilize the rugged Stinson Reliant aircraft. The Stinson was equipped with a long take-up boom with a hook and a winch that operated through an opening in the fuselage. The Stinson would swoop down snatching the container of mail suspended on a rope between two poles.
         This nonstop airmail pickup and delivery system was invented by Lytle S Adams who sold AAA his patent rights. In order to teach and familiarize personnel with this new procedure, Experimental Route 1002 (from Pittsburgh to Huntington WV) was inaugurated in four stages on May 12, May 28, June 11 and June 25, 1939.
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P2S1 390512 Pittsburgh PA AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $2.25
P2S1f 390512 Pittsburgh PA AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $10.50
P2S2 390512 Latrobe PA AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $2.25
P2S3 390512 Morgantown WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2SW4 390512 Clarksburg WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.75
P2S5 390512 Marietta WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $2.25
P2N6 390512 Huntington WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $2.25
P2N7 390512 Nitro WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2N8 390512 Dunbar WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2N9 390512 Charleston WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2N10 390512 Spencer WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2N11 390512 Weston WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2N4 390512 Clarksburg WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2N3 390512 Morgantown WV AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $3.00
P2N2 390512 Latrobe PA AAA James V Piersol/LL Juelson $9.00

P2S12 390528 Mount Pleasant PA AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2S13 390528 Connellsville PA AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2S14 390528 Parkersburg WV AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2S15 390528 Point Pleasant WV AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2S16 390528 Gallipolis OH AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2N17 390528 Milton WV AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2N18 390528 Hurricane WV AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2N19 390528 Glenville WV AAA LL Juelson $3.00
P2N13 390528 Connellsville PA AAA James V Piersol $6.00
P2N12 390528 Mount Pleasant PA AAA James V Piersol $4.50

P2S20 390611 Irwin PA AAA James V Piersol $3.00
P2S21 390611 Jeannette PA AAA James V Piersol $3.00
P2S22 390611 Greenburg PA AAA James V Piersol $3.00
P2S23 390611 Uniontown PA AAA James V Piersol $9.00
P2S24 390611 Fairmont WV AAA James V Piersol $3.00
P2S25 390611 Saint Marys WV AAA James V Piersol $3.00
P2S26 390611 Pomeroy OH AAA James V Piersol $3.00
P2N24 390611 Fairmont WV AAA James V Piersol $11.25
P2N23 390611 Uniontown PA AAA James V Piersol $3.00
P2N22 390611 Greensburg PA AAA James V Piersol $11.25
P2N21 390611 Jeannette PA AAA James V Piersol $11.25
P2N20 390611 Irwin PA AAA James V Piersol $7.50

P2S27 390625 Grafton WV AAA Norman Rintoul $3.00
P2S28 390625 Philippi WV AAA Norman Rintoul $3.00
P2S29 390625 West Union WV AAA Norman Rintoul $2.25
P2N30 390625 Barboursville WV AAA Norman Rintoul $3.00
P2N31 390625 Grantsville WV AAA Norman Rintoul $3.00
P2N28 390625 Philippi WV AAA Norman Rintoul $11.25
P2N27 390625 Grafton WV AAA Norman Rintoul $11.25

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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