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CAM-24 was Indiana%u2019s first Contract Air Mail route. Its beginnings involved a barnstormer, John Paul Riddle, joining up with an entrepreneur, T. Higbee Embry, to found the Embry-Riddle Company in Cincinnati in December 1925. Within a few months, they opened the Embry-Riddle School of Aviation to train pilots. Today, the school is a world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. CAM-24 was awarded to the Embry-Riddle Company on December 17, 1927 to fly mail on a round trip, every day, between Cincinnati and Chicago, via Indianapolis. At first, Embry-Riddle employed 50 people, including 6 pilots who flew three Waco J5 Whirlwinds and a Waco 9 open-cockpit airplane to carry both air mail and passengers. The company encouraged the use of air mail by using the slogan, %u201cMail Airly and Often.%u201d In 1929, Embry-Riddle%u2019s flight operation formed a holding company, then merged with American Airways in 1930 in St. Louis, a conglomerate, that eventually absorbed 82 small airline companies. It was renamed American Air Lines in 1934 after the Air Mail Scandal.Airview of Cincinnati, Ohio by Embry-Riddle Co.