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Hughes Air Corporation, doing business as Hughes Airwest, was a local service carrier from 1970 to 1980 in the Western United States. It was backed by Howard Hughes ' Summa Corporation . Its original name in 1968 was Air West and the air carrier was owned by Nick Bez .
Hughes Airwest Flight 706 The wreckage of Hughes Airwest Flight 706 at its crash site Accident Date June 6, 1971 (1971-06-06) 18:11 (6:11 PM) PDT Summary Mid-air collision Site San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California, United States 34°10′30″N 118°00′00″W / 34.175°N 118.00°W / 34.175; -118.00 Total fatalities 50 Total survivors 1 First aircraft N9345, the ...
In 1932 Hughes founded the Hughes Aircraft Company, a division of Hughes Tool Company, in a rented corner of a Lockheed Aircraft Corporation hangar in Burbank, California, to build the H-1 racer. Shortly after founding the company, Hughes used the alias "Charles Howard" to accept a job as a baggage handler for American Airlines.
Hughes Airwest was sold to Republic Airlines for $38.5 million in October 1980, [4] and Hughes Helicopters was sold to McDonnell Douglas for $470 million in January 1984. [5] The hotel and casino properties were gradually sold off during the 1980s.
In 1955, Howard Hughes split the helicopter production unit from the Hughes Aircraft Company, and reconstituted it with Hughes Tool Company, calling it Hughes Tool Company's Aircraft Division. The Aircraft Division had a focus on the production of light helicopters, mainly the Hughes 269 / 300 and the OH-6 Cayuse / Hughes 500 .
While Cathy had a different endpoint to Millie and Debbie, they were all flying on the same aircraft and via the same airline – Hughes Airwest, a now-defunct regional airline linked to ...
Hughes Airwest 1968 - Pacific Air Lines (originally Southwest Airways), Bonanza Air Lines , and West Coast Airlines merged to form Air West 1970 - Howard Hughes purchased Air West and renamed it Hughes Airwest
1980: Republic Airlines buys Hughes Airwest [59] 1982: Texas Air merges Texas International into former trunk carrier Continental Airlines. [60] 1985: New entrant People Express buys Frontier, operates it as a separate subsidiary [61] 1985: Piedmont agrees to buy new entrant Empire Airlines [62] 1986: Frontier shuts down. [63]