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Contract-air-mail era, 1926–1934 · the airway record not reached
The row asks for the transcontinental or contract airway over this ground, its first carriers, and the airmail era's dates. The searches ran whole: for a contract air mail (CAM) route serving South Bend, for the first carriers, and for the Bendix Field airmail line. They returned the era's frame — the Kelly Act of 1925 and the CAM system it created, the 1934 contract cancellations — but no South Bend route, carrier, or first-flight date that can be printed as verified. One pointer does stand in the philatelic record: the Aerodacious airport-dedication-cover catalogue lists a South Bend cover for Bendix Municipal Airport (its F-130 listing), which is evidence a dedication was commemorated, not an airmail service history. Named gap: South Bend's contract-airmail record — route number, first carriers, era dates — is uncoverable from open sources. Its settling sources are the National Postal Museum's contract air mail records and the Aerodacious dedication-cover catalogue read at the item, with the Tribune's 1928–1934 files as cross-check. Osceola's share is in any case an airway's share: mail planes crossed this sky, if they crossed it, to a field outside the township.
Sources: the searches described in the article; Aerodacious, U.S. Airport Dedication Covers — Indiana (F-130 listing); postal-history records for the CAM era's frame.