08_29A SF-S Black Mountain

GPS: 41.857716, -122.511756

Location / Airway

Location / Name

CALIFORNIA: Siskiyou County

29A SF-S Black Mountain
AKA

GPS: 41.857716, -122.511756

Airmail

Flights started on September 15, 1926

Contract Air Mail

CAM #8 Los Angeles CA-Seattle WA
San Francisco-Seattle airway
Redding-Roseburg Section

Operator

Vern C. Gorst awarded CAM #8 on December 31, 1925
Pacific Air Transport subcontraced CAM #8 on March 6, 1926

Observations and Notes

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Air Commerce Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 14, page 16, January 15, 1930
Black Mountain, Calif. (site No. 29A.)—A 2,000,000-candlepower, 24-inch beacon, showing six rotations per minute, is in operation on the summit of Black Mountain approximately 3 miles south of Hornbrook. The elevation of the main beam above horizon is 0°.

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