According to the 1977 edition of the American Air
Mail Catalogue, the pilots that flew the April 15, 1926 inaugural flight for
CAM Route 2 were Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Philip R. Love, and Thomas P.
Nelson, and they, along with H.A. Gurney, E.L. Sloniger, and Leslie H. Smith,
also flew the February 20-21, 1928 special flights that honored Lindbergh's
two-day return to the route. CAM Route 2 was extended on July 20, 1931, from
St. Louis to Memphis, Tennessee, and the pilots on the inaugural flights, for
this extension, were T.R. Howe and Ira McConaughey.
Time Magazine Nelson died in crash flying the mail:
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