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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-106: AM-106 was awarded to Mid-Continent Airlines. Hanford's Tri-State Airlines began in 1928 as a small flying school in Sioux City IA 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. AM-106 was then awarded to Mid-Continent and on September 26, 1950 it began air service from Sioux City IA to both Milwaukee WI and Chicago IL.
MCA

106E1 500926 Sioux City IA MCA Stanley E Straley $3.00
106E2 500926 Waterloo IA MCA Stanley E Straley $2.25
106E3 500926 Cedar Fallls IA MCA Stanley E Straley $3.00
106E4 500926 Dubuque IA MCA Stanley E Straley $3.75
106E5 500926 Rockford IL MCA Stanley E Straley $3.00
106W6 500926 Chicago IL MCA Ben C Land $3.00
106W6f 500926 Chicago IL MCA Ben C Land $2.25
106W5 500926 Rockford IL MCA Ben C Land $3.75
106W4 500926 Dubuque IA MCA Ben C Land $3.00
106W3 500926 Cedar Fallls IA MCA Ben C Land $4.50
106W2 500926 Waterloo IA MCA Ben C Land $3.75
106NE5 500926 Rockford IL MCA John N Honmyhr $3.75
106SW7 500926 Milwaukee WI MCA John N Honmyhr $3.00

106E8 501201 Mason City IA MCA FT Mahoney $3.00
106W8 501201 Mason City IA MCA John N Honmyhr $6.00

106E9 520501 Clinton IA MCA Charles B Murphy $6.00
106W9 520501 Clinton IA MCA Russell S Taylor $2.25

106E10 521005 Fort Dodge IA MCA John P Giberson $2.25
106W10 521005 Fort Dodge IA MCA Charles R Murphy $3.75

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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