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The Martin 4-0-4 was Piedmont's first pressurized airliner. Like most airlines before deregulation, Piedmont did not have hubs.The airline would eventually fly jets to small airports and connected unlikely city pairs with jet flights: Kinston, North Carolina, and Florence, South Carolina; Roanoke, Virginia, and Asheville, North Carolina; Lynchburg, Virginia, and New York City's LaGuardia ...
Unlike other local-service airlines, Southern did not operate turboprops (such as the Convair 580 and Fairchild F-27 used by other local-service airlines) during the 1960s and 1970s, but by the time of the merger with North Central, Southern had replaced their Martin 4-0-4s with several 19-passenger Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner "Metro II"s.
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015).
Capitol Airways was founded by Jesse F. Stallings (1909–1979), an airline captain, and Richmond Mclnnis, his associate. The company was incorporated in Tennessee on 11 January 1946. [5] Capitol's Letter of Registration (what such airlines had at the time in lieu of a certificate) [6] was issued 11 August 1947. [7]
Tennessee Airways was an airline that was conceived as a regional airline to provide service to cities throughout the Southeastern United States. The airline was in service between 1978 and 1987 and was based out of Knoxville, Tennessee. [1] Stuart Adcock was president and major shareholder.
As jets were integrated into the market in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the industry experienced dramatic growth. By the mid-1960s, airlines were carrying roughly 100 million passengers and by the mid-1970s, over 200 million Americans had traveled by air.
People Express Airlines, stylized as PEOPLExpress, was a low-cost airline in the United States that operated from 1981 until it merged with Continental Airlines in 1987. Its headquarters was in the North Terminal (later Terminal C) of Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) in Newark, New Jersey .
Wheeler Flying Service was started by Warren Wheeler in 1969, who at the time was a captain at Piedmont Airlines, [1] flying Boeing 737-200 jetliners.. Wheeler Flying Service provided flight training, charter services, aircraft maintenance and courier services for banks using Piper PA-28, PA-24 and PA-32, Beechcraft 18, Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander and Ted Smith Aerostar twin engine prop aircraft.