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The first Western Air Express flight departed #onthisday in 1926 with an airmail flight from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City in a Douglas M-2 mailplane. Within a year, the young airline was responsible for delivering 40% of the volume of the nation's airmail on its Los Angeles mail service. A merger in 1930 between TAT (Transcontinental Air Transport) and Western Air Express formed TWA, Transcontinental & Western Air (later Trans World Airlines). Image: Western Air Express, Douglas M-2, c. 1926. Gift of Barbara A. Dawson. 2000.073.012
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