Ticket Receipt Stub Southwest Air Fast Express Airline

Southwest Air Fast Express (SAFE), also known as S.A.F.E.way, was a United States airline. It was founded by

Erle P. Halliburton Erle Palmer Halliburton (September 22, 1892 – October 13, 1957) was an American businessman specializing in oil field services. Early life Halliburton was born on September 22, 1892, near Henning, Tennessee, Henning, Tennessee, the son of Lou ...

, the founder of the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company (now known as

Halliburton Halliburton Company is an American multinational corporation and the world's second-largest oil service company which is responsible for most of the world's fracking operations. It employs approximately 55,000 people through its hundreds of su ...

), and

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, a briefcase manufacturer.

History

Founded in 1928 with Oklahoma oilmen as stockholders, S.A.F.E.way began offering

Ford Tri-Motor The Ford Trimotor (also called the "Tri-Motor", and nicknamed the "Tin Goose") is an American three-engined transport aircraft. Production started in 1925 by the companies of Henry Ford and ended on June 7, 1933, after 199 had been made. It wa ...

service between

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and

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on April 2, 1929. In June 1929 service was expanded to include

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and

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. Operating for a little more than a year, the airline was purchased by

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for $1,400,000.00 through a complicated agreement primarily to obtain the Contract

Air Mail Airmail (or air mail) is a mail transport service branded and sold on the basis of at least one leg of its journey being by air. Airmail items typically arrive more quickly than surface mail, and usually cost more to send. Airmail may be the ...

(CAM) 33 mail services contract won by Halliburton and Southwest Air Fast Express. American renamed the airline Southern Transcontinental Airways and operated the CAM-33 route under that name until June 30, 1931 when American Airways took over.

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{{US-airline-stub Defunct airlines of the United States American companies established in 1928 Defunct companies based in Oklahoma

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