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American Airlines First Flight Brownsville Airport - Corpus Christi Texas - 1932
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Description
Corpus Christi was added as an intermediate stop on American Airlines’ Contract Air Mail Route 22 between Brownsville and San Antonio effective June 1, 1932.The airport at Corpus Christi was dedicated on this date.
No cachet was provided for inaugural mail from Brownsville.
This cover was carried on the inaugural Contract Air Mail Route 22 flight from the Brownsville
, Texas Airport Mail Facility to
Corpus Christi, Texas (where it was backstamped) an
d is listed in the Contract Air Mail Flights (CAM) Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue as R22S10.