- Founded
- 1926
- Coordinates
- 45.6937° N, 85.5665° WGoogle Maps: Beaver Island Air ServiceDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingeconomyheritagecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The Beaver Island Air Service was reported in May 1926 to have acquired a 12-passenger seaplane while already owning two other aircraft. The service planned passenger transportation among Northern Michigan resorts and hoped to secure a Post Office Department contract to carry winter mail to Beaver Island.
Evidence and limits
The brief state-news item does not identify the company’s officers, home base, aircraft registrations, routes actually flown, or whether the proposed mail contract was awarded. The organization is therefore recorded as a probable 1926 operating entity, not as a fully documented corporation or proof of completed mail service.
Open questions
- What were the service’s legal name, owners, base, and aircraft registrations?
- Was a winter Beaver Island mail contract awarded, and what routes were actually flown?
- Is this service connected to the later Charlevoix-area aviation operators or airport records?
See also
Sources
- Current airport/runway-area point used as a representative location for the later air-service article; the early 1926 sources describe harbor-ice landings and do not establish this field as the service’s original base.osm · aeroway
- Charlevoix County Herald, May 21, 1926, “State News in Brief.”Reports that the Beaver Island Air Service had acquired a 12-passenger seaplane in New Jersey, already owned two other planes, would carry passengers between Northern Michigan resorts, and hoped to obtain a Post Office Department contract for winter mail to Beaver Island. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Air Service”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/beaver-island-air-service-1926/, accessed [date], citing OpenStreetMap, Beaver Island Airport feature, downloaded 2026-08-06. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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