Post by Bernard on Sept 18, 2024 15:15:58 GMT
The original company was formed by a merger between Florida West Indies Airways and Aeromarine Sightseeing and Navigation Company (a subsidiary of the Aeromarine airplane manufacturing company established at Keyport, NJ) and was one of the first international airlines in the United States.
It commenced operations in November 1920 with a flight from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba, and operated flying boats from the United States mainland to the Bahamas and Cuba. Transporting passengers, mail, and freight beginning in 1921, it ceased operations in early 1924 due to a freeze on mail contracts by the United States Post Office.
It was reorganized as Aeromarine Airways in spring of 1921 with Inglis Moore Uppercu, a New York City Cadillac dealer as its president. Aeromarine enjoyed many firsts - the first U.S. international air mail service and first scheduled U.S. international passenger service (Key West to Havana, November 1920), first total-service U.S. airline (passenger, mail, express cargo), first in-flight movie (Chicago, August 1921), first airline baggage label (1921), and the first U.S. airline ticket office (Cleveland, July 1922).
Those who are familar with Golden Wings know MoCat's 'Aeromarine New York 1932' package. Based on what is stated above, it's rather unclear, why the author situated his creation in 1932. Anyway, MoCat did a nice work, which mainly depicts the seaplane base at 82nd Street in Manhattan's Upper West Side.
The package included an AI traffic with several aircraft flying either to Harrah's Landing near Atlantic City or to Rochester, MA. But it obvisouly has been ommited to add a traffic from Miami to Havana using the different seaplane bases created along this route. Therefore I added the missing traffic shown below:
Aeromarine ready to leave Miami seaplane base
flying over former U.S. Naval Dinner Key base.,
and Sugar Loaf Shores while approaching Key West.
The Aeromarine does stopovers at Key West,
Bimini Island,
and Nassau., Bahamas
Finally Aeromarine reaches Cuban Northern coast off of Havana.
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While landing there, it crosses the famous Hotel Nacional de Cuba,
Castillo de San Salvador de la Punta with Havana Cathedreal in the background,
and Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro
The Aeromarine seaplane base located at entrance of Havana port.
Aeromarine Airways did also flights from Cleveland to Put-In Bay, Detroit, Toledo and back via Sandusky. Some screenies of such a flight using sceneries of the same package:
The Aeromarine with specific repaint over Lake Erie,
approaching Put-In Bay,
and Sandusky with Griffing-Sandusky Airport in background (part of 'GW Mail Route').
Bernard