1. Southwest Airways with Douglas DC-3 service is correct! However, the actual list of destinations served by flight #2 was just a bit different. Here's the actual routing as it appears in their June 1, 1947 timetable:

Los Angeles-Oxnard/Ventura-Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-San Luis Obispo-Coalinga-Monterey-Santa Cruz/Watsonville-San Jose/Moffett Field-San Francisco

Coalinga is the destination I referred to as being on the western edge of the San Joaquin Valley, of course. Also interesting was the use of Moffett Field for the San Jose service. Moffett Field is an old U.S. Navy base that is still in use these days by NASA (Ames Research Center) as well as by the California Air National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. This former Naval Air Station military airbase is also home to a huge dirigible hangar that was used by the Navy when it operated massive airships such as the "U.S.S. Macon" which unfortunately met its demise off the coast of Big Sur in the Pacific back in 1935. The "Macon" was actually a lighter than air (LTA) German design much like the "Hindenburg" but used helium instead of hydrogen for lift and was constructed by the Goodyear-Zeppelin consortium in Ohio.

Meantime, Southwest then changed its name in 1958 to Pacific Air Lines which subsequently in turn entered the jet age with the Boeing 727-100 as we have previously discussed. Pacific introduced the first jet service into six destinations in California during the mid 1960's. So here's a bonuz quiz item: identify all six destinations in California that received their first jet service via Pacific Air Lines 727 aircraft. ANSWERED