Ludington Airlines   Consolidated Fleetster 17-A  NC705Y                (c/n  3)

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                                         Ludington Airlines was formed in August 1929 by Philadelphia financier C.T. Ludington.
                                         Ludington's initial airline experience came from his Cape Cod Airway which linked Phil-
                                         adelphia with Newport, RI and Woods Hole, Mass with a Travel Air 6000 and a Fairchild
                                         71.  The Ludington Line began of 1 September 1930 with a route from Newark, through
                                         Camden, NJ to Washington D.C. using Lockheed Vegas, Stinson Tri-Motors and three
                                         Consolidated Fleetsters, the last of which is seen above in this Consolidated Vultee
                                         photo taken in June 1932 (I was almost 1 year old).  .Photos of Ludington's aircraft are
                                         extremely rare, and, over the years, I have been unable to glean a shot of one of their
                                         Stinson SM-6000s, even though they possessed a modest fleet.   Anyway, Ludington
                                         maintained the coveted frequency of "On the hour, every hour' from 08.00 to 17.00 hrs,
                                         daily.   However, when Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown awarded the air mail
                                         subsidy of Ludington's routes to Eastern Air Transport, the little airline was ostensibly
                                         forced out of business and  was sold to EAT in February of 1933.