Robert "Robbie" Robinson, Florence Lee Jones Cahlan, and John F. Cahlan at a podium at a Rotary Club event at the Tropicana Hotel. Site Name: Tropicana Hotel (Las Vegas, Nev.)

Black and white photograph of Florence Lee Jones Cahlan on left with unidentified woman and man.

Black and white photograph of a group of men during the 1920s that appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper on August 29, 1971, page 6. From left to right: Col. Moore; Capt. Roscoe Turner; John Cahlan; Mr. Smith; Major Force.

First mail flight from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Front left: Maury Graham, pilot; At scales: Harris M. "Pop" Hanshue, founder of Western Air Express, later called Western Airlines. Los Angeles postmaster is weighing mail sacks.

Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation) plane being refueled at Rockwell Field , Las Vegas, by Nevada Oil Co. truck. Note the landing strip.

Western Airlines' first pilot Fred Kelly, showing a boy scout knife to other veteran flier Jimmy James on the left. Center, company engineer Herbert Hoover, Jr. son of the late President. They are standing beside a Douglas M-2 biplane, the type of aircraft first used in 1926 by Western Airlines (originally called Western Air Express Corporation).

First Western Airlines Express plane landing in Las Vegas on 25th anniversary. Bill Morgan, pony express rider, delivering mail sacks to pilot Jimmy James. Looking on are Mayor Ernie Cragin and Commissioner Leonard Arnett. Western Airlines was originally called Western Air Express Corporation.