[Updated] Arrows Across America: fly the US Air Mail routes 1926 - 1934

You like old Airway maps? Well here’s a couple for CAM Route 5:

Six years difference between the two maps though so things might not line up properly. You’ll also get the Radio Range Navigation stations and airways with the '36 map which actually makes it a bit more difficult to spot the old beacons.

A little preview of map 136 showing beacons 46 through to 50
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I also found a ton of old sectional maps and here’s a the sectionals covering CAM Route 5. They’re from 1936 though so there are some differences, the big one being the final route from beacons 48 to 51 then Pasco. It seems like by 36 the beacons following that section were decommissioned and re-routed via Umatilla via a diversionary ‘X1’ beacon.

You can find them here. I found two different ones for Salt Lake City that were pretty close in date so I uploaded both.

Here’s an incredibly rough overview of what sectional covers what part of the trip
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