CAM Contract Air Mail First Flights AM-143

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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-143: AM-143 was awarded to Western Alaska Airlines. Western Alaska Airlines headquartered in Dillingham AK was an early "bush" airline in Alaska. It was founded by Albert Ball and operated in the western part of the Aleutian Islands and the Bristol Bay regions of Alaska for many years, first as a distribution carrier for the Alaska Star newspaper and later as a contract air carrier. AM-143 was awarded to Western Alaska Airlines and on February 28, 1960 it began carrying mail between the Alaska mainland and various island points.
(Note: Western Alaska Airlines merged with Kodiak Airways on April 1, 1973 becoming Kodiak-Western Alaska Airlines)

143W1 600228 King Salmon AK WAA John F Ball/Myron Moran $3.00

143E2 600228 Dillingham AK WAA John F Ball/Myron Moran $3.00

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