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pi[[strikethrough]]o[[/strikethrough]]lots becoming more and more efficient, the hope of night flights became a reality. On February 16, the helicopters began flying from 5:45 in the morning until two o'clock the next morning. This meant that there were now ten round trip day flights in the triangle route and six night flights plus the two regular segment flights to the north. By this method, the load capacity of the airline was greatly increased. 

Since the commencement of night flights made it possible to serve the outer communities during darkness, the times of the flights changed accordingly. Around the first part of April the times were changed so that the morning flight left at 4:25 A.M. instead of 7:30 and the evening flight left later at 5:15 P.M. instead 3:45. This change in schedule meant that the morning mail could get to the Post Offices in the suburbs earlier, so as to be on the office desks that morning, and with the later evening flights, the late office mail going out could be picked up and brought to the airport in order to go out that night. 

On May 8, a new addition to the helicopter fleet was made, the fourth S-55 helicopter (417-A) was delivered by United Aircraft and this craft heralded a further step in the advancement of New York Airways. This gave the company the extra equipment needed to start another segment route. A few days after the arrival of the plane, the newspapers carried a story announcing that beginning June 8, flights to Trenton New Jersey and stops along the way were to start. (1) This meant that this youthful airline was now about to cover