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items 3 and 4 — the contract airway; training uses and the base that went elsewhere
No airmail ever moved through this township: no contract-airway stop, beacon field, or airmail facility is recorded for New Carlisle or Olive Township in the route records reached for this section, and the town's mail course — carried whole in the post-office record — ran by rail and road for the whole airmail era. The era's local seat was the county's field at South Bend, at boundary size. The war years print the same shape at larger scale: no training use is recorded for any field on this ground — there was no field to train at — and the great wartime air base of northern Indiana went elsewhere, to Fort Wayne's Baer Field in another county, printed here as the negative the floor requires. The township's own war in the air was personal, not institutional: its men flew from other places' fields, and one of them — the test pilot at Bendix's proving ground on the township's own eastern edge — belongs to the recreation and war records that already carry him.
Sources:
- Contract-airmail route records and the Official Guide record as reached for this section, November 2026 — no facility for this ground returned.
- This build's post-office record (the mail course by rail and road) and this history (the proving ground and its test pilot).