15 SL-O Green River

Location / Airway

Location / Name

Wyoming: Sweetwater County

Commonly called Green River "15 SL-O", Site No. 15 Salt Lake City-Omaha Airway

gps: 41.671638, -108.941306

Transcontinental Airway

Route established September 8, 1920

Pilots Log February 21, 1921
Between Salt Lake and Cheyenne

CHE + 282. Granger, Wyo. — 16 miles north of the course on the Union Pacific where the Oregon Short Line joins the Union Pacific from the north.

CHE + 246. Green River, Wyo. — Follow the Union Pacific double-tracked railroad from Rock Springs. There is an emergency field here which is distinguished [on] account of its being the only cleared space of its size, near the town. Green river is crossed immediately after the city of Green River is passed. Here the course leaves the railroad which continues in a northwesterly direction. By flying approximately 230˚ compass course from here, Cheyenne [Salt Lake City] will be reached.

Night Airmail

Flights started on July 1, 1924

Contract Air Mail

CAM #18 San Francisco CA-Chicago IL
Route established July 1, 1927
Salt Lake City-Omaha Airway
Salt Lake-Rock Springs section
Boeing Air Transport awarded CAM #18 on January 28, 1927

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