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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-119: AM-119 was awarded to Seaboard World Airlines. Seaboard World Airlines was an international all-cargo airline based in the US. It was founded by brothers, Arthur and Raymond Norden on September 11, 1946 as Seaboard & Western Airlines and began operations with a flight to Europe in May 1947. Seaboard concentrated on freight charters until it was authorized to operate scheduled freight services across the Atlantic which started in April 1956.
        On April 4, 1961 Seaboard & Western's name changed to Seaboard World Airlines. Jet cargo service started in 1964 with the introduction of the Douglas DC-8. Seaboard played a prominent role in the Vietnam War during the late 1960's using the DC-8 Super 63 jets to connect McChord Air Force Base WA with Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, fairly close to the front lines with North Vietnam.
        AM-119 was awarded to Seaboard World Airlines and on July 8, 1969 it inaugurated a US domestic route from Chicago via Detroit, Cleveland and Boston and on-ward to Europe. (Note: Seaboard was taken over by The Flying Tiger Line in October 1980)
SWA

119W1 690708 Cleveland OH SWA -- $105.00
119W1f 690708 Cleveland OH SWA -- $41.25
119E1 690708 Cleveland OH SWA -- $90.00
119E1f 690708 Cleveland OH SWA -- $16.50

119E2 690930 Los Angeles CA SWA William Eastwood $3.75
119E2f 690930 Los Angeles CA SWA William Eastwood $3.75
119E3 690930 San Francisco CA SWA Arthur W John $3.75
119E3f 690930 San Francisco CA SWA Arthur W John $3.75

119W4 781030 New York NY-Chicago IL SWA Edwin M Foster $4.00
119W4f 781030 New York NY-Chicago IL SWA Edwin M Foster $4.00
119W4u 781030 United Nations NY-Chicago IL SWA Edwin M Foster $4.50
119E5 781030 Chicago IL-New York NY SWA Raymond D Dorman $4.00
119E5f 781030 Chicago IL-New York NY SWA Raymond D Dorman $3.00
119W6 781030 New York NY-San Francisco CA SWA Edwin M Foster $4.00
119W6f 781030 New York NY-San Francisco CA SWA Edwin M Foster $3.00
119W6u 781030 United Nations NY-San Francisco CA SWA Edwin M Foster $4.50
119E7 781030 San Francisco CA-New York NY SWA Edwin M Foster (SF-LA)
Raymond D Dorman (LA-NY)		 $4.00
119E7f 781030 San Francisco CA-New York NY SWA Edwin M Foster (SF-LA)
Raymond D Dorman (LA-NY)		 $3.00
119W8 781030 New York NY-Los Angeles CA SWA Edwin M Foster $4.00
119W8f 781030 New York NY-Los Angeles CA SWA Edwin M Foster $3.00
119W8u 781030 United Nations NY-Los Angeles CA SWA Edwin M Foster $4.50
119E9 781030 Los Angeles CA-New York NY SWA Raymond D Dorman $3.00
119E9a 781030 Worldway Center-New York NY SWA Raymond D Dorman $3.00

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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