CAM #5 Elko-Pasco / Salt Lake-Pasco

April 6, 1926: Elko NV and Pasco WA; interim stop: Boise ID; awarded: Varney Air Lines  CAM #5 Covers

CAM #5 Airways (Airways are based South to North and West to East)

United States Congressional serial set. 9509. page 115; Contract for Mail Service, Route No. C.A.M 5; Contract made 7th day of October 1925 to Walter T. Varney; Route: Elko, Nevada, by Boise, Idaho, to Pasco, Washington and return.

July 1, 1930: C.A.M. 32 consolidated with C.A.M 5 source "The Aircraft Yearbook for 1931", page 507

Salt Lake-Pasco airway

Links

U.S. Air Service, Vol. 11, No. 3, March 1926, page 36:  Walter T. Varney's Plans for Carrying the Mail

Varney Air Lines   J5 Swallow Mailplane

Flying Magazine December 1953, Walter Varney's Airline

Article tells the route that Leon Cuddleback flew on April 6, 1926.  Has photos.

Pasco, Elko, Boise 1926 Flight Blog

Stories, newspaper clippings and photos of the April 6, 1926 flight.

Contract air mail Route 5, "Metropolitan Air Post Society", What we collect-