Delta Air Lines Stinson SM-6000-B Unknown
These early Delta Air Lines images really are dreadful. Even on
the original print the registration
of this
machine is not discernible. I suspect it would be one of the
ex-Century Air Lines aircraft
in the NC108xx
series. Anyway, in 1934, when the Post Office Department
cancelled all the
existing
air mail contracts and called for rebids, Woolman bid on, and was
awarded, Contract
Air Mail Route # 24
to carry mail from Dallas to Charleston, South Carolina via
Atlanta. Although
he still had some of his original Travelairs, several Stinson Model Ts
(as the SM-6000 was often
called) were
acquired. One of the gentlemen standing outside
the (starboard) door is probably
the great C.E.
Woolman himself.