The Southern route was inaugurated on piloted by Arthur E LaPorte flying a Boeing 314 from New York to Marseilles France. Both routes would later connect round-the-world. The Southern route was via Horta Azores and Lisbon Portugal to Marseilles France while the Northern route was via Canada, Newfoundland, Foynes Ireland to Southampton England. On OctoLa Niña, piloted by Cy Caldwell and chartered by Trippe, took off from Key West landing at CampįAM-18 was awarded to Pan Am with two routes east across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. He talked pilot Cy Caldwell into making the flight with “La Nina” a Fairchild FC-2 floatplane that Cy was flying for the West Indian Aerial Express. To meet his contractual deadline, Trippe decided to charter a seaplane to make the flight. Although two runways had been completed, heavy rain had been falling for two days and the airport became a swamp. He had a deadline with the government to begin the service. Trippe had bought two Fokker planes and had a ground crew preparing an airport at Meacham Field in Key West FL. It was the first contract for the carriage of mail to a foreign country from the US. He had obtained a contract from the federal government to fly mail from Key West to Camp Colombia, Havana Cuba. Trippe became president and general manager. In order to procure a route to Cuba, the airline merged with two others to form Pan American Airways. Sonny Whitney and John Hambleton were directors and Juan Trippe was in charge of operations. On JJuan Trippe formed an airline, “Aviation Corporation of America” with two allies. The Foreign Air Mail routes became known as FAM's.įAM-18: FAM-18 was awarded to Pan American Airways. Web-catalog FAM Foreign Air Mail First Flights F18Īerodacious (Aviation + Audacious = Aerodacious)ĮMail: Aerodacious Page FAM018 (Revised )īackground: The Post Office Department designated any contract air mail route flown by an airline into/from a foreign country into/from the US as a "Foreign Air Mail" route.
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