COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT OPERATING COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA Continued Charge Address Aircraft Charge Passengers Carried Freight Miles Carried Flown Saginaw, Mich. 1 J.N.-4-D, 2 J.-1's. Calif. Minneapolis, Field (leased), at Santa Maria, Cal., 1⁄2 15.00 2 under construction. Field (owned) west of Muskogee. 74 Service Aviation Training & Transportation Co., Inc. 75 Miss Neta Snook 76 Starkey Battery Co. 77 Southern Aeroplane Co. Minn. Wabash, Ind. 828 Wilson Ave., 78 Southern Wyoming Cheyenne, Wyo. Aircraft Co. 79 Syracuse Aero Corp. 80 Tahoe Aviation W. S. Stoddard 81 U. S. Aircraft Corp. 1803 3rd Ave., Spokane, Wash. 1 J.-1. 20 15.00 2.00 500 239 Union Bldg., 1 N.-9 seaplane,† 1 J.N.-4-D. 6 J.-1's; 2 J.N.-4D's; 1 Tourer.°° Field (owned) at Redwood City, Cal., 2 mi. x 1⁄2 mi.; hangars and supply depot. 800 45,500 82 Utah Airplane Co., | 343 S. Main St., 1 JN.-4-D converted Use harbor floating-hangar and shop. to seaplane. COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT OPERATING COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA - Continued 87 Yakima Aviation Yakima, Wash. 2 Canadian J.N.-4's. Field (leased) with hangars, supplies, 5.00 .50 1,400 20,000 50 and 50-B-2, three-place flying boats, Aeromarine engine; F.-5-L Navy Cruiser, fourteen-place flying boats, Liberty engine; built by Aeromarine Plane B.B.-L., three-place land plane, Hall-Scott engine; B.-1, two or three-place flying boat; C, twin float seaplane; built by Boeing Airplane Company, J.N.'s of the various types, two-place land planes; Oriole, three-place land plane; Seagull, three-place flying boat; F. and M.F., two and three-place K.T., two-place land plane; O.W., three-place land plane, Liberty engine; built by Dayton Wright Company, Dayton, O. J.1 and J.-2, two and three-place land planes built by Standard Aircraft Corporation, Elizabeth, N. J.. and rebuilt by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor † indicates Wright engine built by Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Paterson, N. J. I indicates Liberty engine built by Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich. indicates engine built by Hall-Scott Motor Car Company, Berkeley, Calif. F.40 and F.46, French Farman; J.L. monoplane, German Junker; 504-K, British-Avro; *Lark monoplane; ** French Breguet; *** Daugherty tractor; • Laird landplane; °° British Bristol. The operating companies report a total of 222 forced landings and 88 accidents. (The above is based upon statements made to the Manufacturers Aircraft Association, Inc., in response to questionnaires sent to all known operators of aircraft. No opportunity has been available to determine the accuracy of the information and no responsibility is taken for the data except for the care with which the figures and facts are reported and the manner in which the summary is presented.) CHAPTER III MAIL AIRCRAFT FLY 8,000 MILES DAILY; LINES LINK UNITED STATES WITH CANADA AND CUBA; TIME BETWEEN ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC REDUCED BY 42 HOURS; MANY EXTENSIONS PLANNED T HE United States Air Mail, which started with the New York-Washington route May 15th, 1918, now operates daily between New York and San Francisco, St. Louis, Minneapolis and St. Paul, and New York and Washington, a total of 3,460 miles. Private aircraft companies are transporting the mails by contract between Seattle and Victoria, B. C., and between Key West and Havana, Cuba, a combined distance of 174 miles. Thirty-five or more cargo-laden Air Mail planes are actually in the air each day, flying a grand total, in round trips, of approximately 8,000 miles. The Post Office Department has recommended to Congress the extension of Government-operated routes between Boston and Detroit, by way of Buffalo; between Chicago and Los Angeles, by way of Kansas City; between St. Paul, Minneapolis and Seattle, and between St. Louis and New Orleans by way of Memphis, these routes aggregating 4,770 miles, one way. Contracts have been let for mail transport services from Pittsburgh to St. Louis by way of Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis; from New York to Atlanta, by way of Washington, Raleigh and Columbia; from New York to Chicago by way of Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne; and from Cleveland to Detroit. These contract routes, with a total mileage of 2,260, were expected to be in operation by the Spring of 1921. If the plans under contemplation go through, the United States should witness, late in 1921, the operation of a gigantic Air Mail system with terminals in most of the larger cities, and with aircraft flying more than 20,000 miles every day. The first eight months of the Air Mail Service, between May 15 and December 30, 1918, 119,006 pounds or 4,760,240 letters were carried. The next twelve months, or during the calendar year of 1919, 471,762 pounds, or 18,870,480 letters were transported by mail 22 |