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Prior to returning to Walsh — which is his alma mater — Stump was the chief operating officer of FoxTrot Aviation Services. As a successful entrepreneur, he managed a trauma unit and led his ...
[citation needed] The airline's first scheduled commercial flights in America were begun when The "Maiden Dearborn" flew 1,000 lbs. of freight between factories in Detroit and Chicago on April 13, 1925. [3] Ford Air Transport served routes between Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. [4] The airline logged over 1000 scheduled flights in its first year.
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).
1925: Ford Air Transport Service between "Detroit" (Dearborn) and Chicago begins. [7] 1925–31: Annual National Air Tour to demonstrate safety and reliability of commercial aviation starts and ends at Ford Airport. 1926: First regularly scheduled airline service begun by Stout on July 31 – between Grand Rapids and Dearborn. [8]
DC-8-54AF Orlando 1996. Zantop International Airlines, Inc. was a United States charter operator, originally uncertificated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now defunct Federal agency that, at the time, otherwise tightly regulated almost all US air transport.
Stout operated from Ford Airport (Dearborn) under the name Detroit-Grand Rapids Airline with round trip fares of $35 in 1926. [2] An airline of firsts, Stout was the first to hire male flight attendants, [ 3 ] and the Book Cadillac Hotel became the first airline ticket office by selling Stout Air Services tickets. [ 4 ]
North Central stopped serving Reed City in 1966, prompting Miller Industries to begin its own air service. Miller Airlines provided service on a route from Chicago (Meigs) to Cadillac, and in 1969 added service to Ludington and Detroit City Airport. [3] This service lasted until 1971, when use of the airport began to decline.
On December 3, 1990, two Northwest Airlines jetliners collided at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport. Flight 1482, a scheduled Douglas DC-9-14 operating from Detroit to Pittsburgh International Airport, taxied by mistake onto an active runway in dense fog and was hit by a departing Boeing 727 operating as Flight 299 to Memphis International Airport.