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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-141: AM-141 was awarded to Kodiak Airways. After WW-II had ended Bob Hall founded Kodiak Airways in 1947 on Kodiak Island AK. It operated as an Alaskan "bush" airline for many years ferrying people and supplies between seven outlying villages and twenty-one operating canneries around the Kodiak Islands. AM-141 was awarded to Kodiak and on December 5, 1960 in addition to its regular flight operations, it became an air mail carrier. Kodiak Airways used amphibian aircraft to serve the area including the Grumman Widgeon, Grumman Goose and Republic SeaBee.
        (Note: After the March 1964 earthquake and tidal-wave, Kodiak Airways was left with two flyable aircraft)
KA

141W1 601205 Kodiak to Afognak AK KA Gilbert A Jarvela $2.25
141W2 601206 Kodiak to Karluk AK KA Gilbert A Jarvela $3.00
141S3 601207 Kodiak to Old Harbor AK KA Gilbert A Jarvela $3.00

Kodiak merged with Western Alaska Airlines on April 1, 1973 becoming Kodiak-Western Alaska Airlines.
KA

141W4 751014 Kodiak AK KA Harry L Acor $3.00
141E5 751014 King Salmon AK KA WilliamR Blewett $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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