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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.

CAM-16: CAM-16 was awarded to Continental Air Lines. CAL was formed in Ohio on October 10, 1927. CAL was not affiliated with today's Continental, but was rather part of Universal Aviation Corporation, a predecessor of today's American Airlines. Postal mail covers carried on the inaugural flight between each point of landing and take-off are collectible and are known as CAM-16 covers.
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        Continental provided mail/passenger flight service using Travel Air 6000 aircraft.
        Pilots flying different legs of this August 1st CAM-16 inaugural air service included, Ross Arnold, JE Hart, HL Kindred and William M McConnell.

16S1 280801 Cleveland OH CAL Kindred & McConnell $4.50
16S1F 280801 Cleveland OH CAL Kindred & McConnell $4.50
16S2 280801 Akron OH CAL McConnell $4.50
16S3 280801 Columbus OH CAL McConnell & Arnold $12.00
16S4 280801 Dayton OH CAL McConnell $12.00
16S5 280801 Cincinnati OH CAL Arnold $18.00
16N6 280801 Louisville KY CAL Arnold $4.50
16N5 280801 Cincinnati OH CAL McConnell $4.50
16N4 280801 Dayton OH CAL McConnell $7.50
16N3 280801 Columbus OH CAL Kindred $4.50
16N2 280801 Akron OH CAL Hart $4.50

R16N8 290501 to Springfield OH by southbound plane CAL $18.75
16S7 290501 Springfield OH CAL Waldo Robey $7.50
R16S8 290501 to Springfield OH by norhtbound plane CAL $18.75
16N7 290501 Springfield OH CAL Roy L Mitchell $4.50

16S9 310302 Louisville KY CAL Roy L Mitchell $9.00
16N10 310302 Nashville TN CAL Roy L Mitchell $4.50

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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