CAM Contract Air Mail First Flights AM-139

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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-139: AM-139 was awarded to Pacific Northern Airlines. Pacific Northern Airlines was founded in 1932 as Woodley Airways operating local routes in southwestern Alaska. The name Pacific Northern Airlines was adopted in 1945. With the award of a trunk route between Anchorage AK and Seattle WA, PNA began this air service in October 1947 in competition with Northwest Airlines. The Lockheed "Connie" and PNA were Kodiak's bridge to the "Lower 48."
In 1967 PNA merged with Western Air Lines. AM-139 was awarded to PNA and on August 21, 1969 it began flight service between Anchorage AK and Honolulu HI.

139S1 690821 Anchorage AK PNA NP Cavett $6.00

139N2 690821 Honolulu HI PNA AW Armistead $13.50

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