Location / Airway

Location / Name

CALIFORNIA:  San Francisco County

Commonly called Crissy Field, AKA Aviation Field at the Presidio; Crissy Army Airfield

AIRMAIL HANGAR GPS: 37.802788, -122.462527

Transcontinenal Airway

Route established September 8, 1920

Pilots Log February 21, 1921,
U. S. Post Office pilots

Contract Air Mail

CAM #18 San Francisco CA-Chicago IL
Route established July 1, 1927
San Francisco-Salt Lake airway
San Francisco-Reno section
Boeing Air Transport awarded CAM #18 on January 28, 1927

CAM #8 San Diego-Seattle
Route established September 15, 1926
Los Angeles-Seattle Airway
Fresno-San Francisco Section
San Francisco-Seattle Airway
San Francisco-Redding Section
Pacific Air Transport July 1, 1927

Observations and Notes

Bulletins

Links

Crissy Field on Wikipedia

Historical Marker for Crissy Army Airfield

GPS: 37.804133, -122.469367

Defender of the Gate :  the Presidio of San Francisco : a history from 1846 to 1995 /  Erwin N. Thompson / Chapter 19, page 669, Crissy Field

Has lots of old photos and history of Crissy Field

The last word in airfields : a special history study of Crissy Field, Presidio of San Francisco, California; by Haller, Stephen A

Option to download a copy of the book in various formats

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