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Seat 2A
Interesting, too, that some dude like me should have been fortunate to have had dinner with Jon Proctor at the Airliners International convention in Indianapolis prior to the first issue of his magazine Airliners coming off the presses in 1988. I first met Jon in 1979 and it's thanks to him that I now possess one of the world's larger collections of airline postcards.
Also interesting to note that Mr. Proctor's father, Willis Heath Proctor, was chief pilot for Colonial Air Transport back in the 1930's. Colonial was a division of the Aviation Corporation (Avco) and was subsequently folded into American Airways which in turn was then renamed American Airlines. Jon's Dad went on to serve as a captain with American, retiring as a line pilot in 1950 but continuing with AA for another seven years as the head of pilot training for the airline in Chicago. And Colonial also had another employee who became quite prolific in the airline business in later years: Juan Trippe who later ran Pan Am. Here's a Colonial timetable from 1930....
https://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/colon301.htm
I believe the aircraft referenced in this timetable was the Fokker F.VII trimotor.