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SUNSHINE SKIES
Welcome to Sunshine Skies, a website about vintage commercial aviation with a focus on the smaller airlines and commercial airports of Florida and Georgia. You'll find over two hundred pages full of historic photos, postcards, timetables, route maps, airport diagrams and stories about the airlines, airports and aircraft of the Sunshineand Peach states.
AIRPORT INDEX
If you would like to contribute photos, scans, stories or additional information about any of the airlines, airports or aircraft on this site, please contact me, David Henderson, using the mail icon above. Help preserve the colorful history of aviation in Florida and Georgia!VINTAGE AIRWAYS
While Vintage Airways wasn't a commuter airline, it was often mistaken for one. Founded by Richard Branson (hence the Virgin-esque paint scheme), Vintage operated 1940s-themed nostalgia air tour flights between Orlando and Key West as well as local sightseeing flights beginning in 1992. Flights were later moved from Orlando International Airport to the less congested Kissimmee airport and PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE (PBA) PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE. PBA was probably the most significant commuter airline in Florida history. The airline operated two divisions, one in Cape Cod and one in Florida, with seasonal traffic patterns that complimented each other. The Florida division was known as Naples Airlines from 1960 to 1980, when the name was changed tosimply PBA.
GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES. Gulfstream began operating in 1990 with flights between Miami and Cap Haitien, Haiti, service which was quickly halted due to the unstable political climate in the island country. The following year Gulfstream began flights between Miami, the Bahamas, Orlando and Vero Beach. In 1994 the airline expanded intoSHAWNEE AIRLINES
Shawnee introduced this stunning tropical paint scheme on DC-3 N1301 when it became a subsidiary of Florida Airlines in 1975. Martin 404s joined the fleet in 1976 and were used on lucrative routes to the Bahamas. DC-3 N45366, seen at Sarasota in January 1977, sports yet another variation of the hot pink / yellow paint scheme. EASTERN METRO EXPRESS Eastern Metro Express was a subsidiary of Houston-based Metro Airlines created specifically to feed Eastern Airlines' hub at Atlanta. Flights began in April 1984, and by 1987 the airline was serving over 20 cities throughout the southeast. The carrier ceased operations when Eastern Airlines shut down inDEVOE AIRLINES
Devoe served various points in Florida and Alabama from 1981 through 1983 with a fleet of Piper Navajos. The airline shut down in 1983 when the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered the company was being used to smuggle and distribute cocaine. THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103 THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103. DC-3 in 1973. Mr. Jackson initially asked if I had any information on the crash, and I had to admit that I had never found a single mention of it in my years of research. Randy pointed me to flightglobal.com where I found this single sentence: "Four of the 30 passengers on board a DC-3 of Shawnee HISTORY OF PANAMA CITY BAY COUNTY AIRPORT (PART 1: 1940S This is the first of a five part look back at the history of airline service at Bay County Airport at Fannin Field (KPFN), which served Panama City, Florida from 1945 to 2010. Images courtesy of Brent Mooney, Björn Larsson and the Panama City Northwest Regional Library System. Panama City Airport was established in 1945 on land adjacentto
SUNSHINE SKIES
Welcome to Sunshine Skies, a website about vintage commercial aviation with a focus on the smaller airlines and commercial airports of Florida and Georgia. You'll find over two hundred pages full of historic photos, postcards, timetables, route maps, airport diagrams and stories about the airlines, airports and aircraft of the Sunshineand Peach states.
AIRPORT INDEX
If you would like to contribute photos, scans, stories or additional information about any of the airlines, airports or aircraft on this site, please contact me, David Henderson, using the mail icon above. Help preserve the colorful history of aviation in Florida and Georgia!VINTAGE AIRWAYS
While Vintage Airways wasn't a commuter airline, it was often mistaken for one. Founded by Richard Branson (hence the Virgin-esque paint scheme), Vintage operated 1940s-themed nostalgia air tour flights between Orlando and Key West as well as local sightseeing flights beginning in 1992. Flights were later moved from Orlando International Airport to the less congested Kissimmee airport and PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE (PBA) PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE. PBA was probably the most significant commuter airline in Florida history. The airline operated two divisions, one in Cape Cod and one in Florida, with seasonal traffic patterns that complimented each other. The Florida division was known as Naples Airlines from 1960 to 1980, when the name was changed tosimply PBA.
GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES. Gulfstream began operating in 1990 with flights between Miami and Cap Haitien, Haiti, service which was quickly halted due to the unstable political climate in the island country. The following year Gulfstream began flights between Miami, the Bahamas, Orlando and Vero Beach. In 1994 the airline expanded intoSHAWNEE AIRLINES
Shawnee introduced this stunning tropical paint scheme on DC-3 N1301 when it became a subsidiary of Florida Airlines in 1975. Martin 404s joined the fleet in 1976 and were used on lucrative routes to the Bahamas. DC-3 N45366, seen at Sarasota in January 1977, sports yet another variation of the hot pink / yellow paint scheme. EASTERN METRO EXPRESS Eastern Metro Express was a subsidiary of Houston-based Metro Airlines created specifically to feed Eastern Airlines' hub at Atlanta. Flights began in April 1984, and by 1987 the airline was serving over 20 cities throughout the southeast. The carrier ceased operations when Eastern Airlines shut down inDEVOE AIRLINES
Devoe served various points in Florida and Alabama from 1981 through 1983 with a fleet of Piper Navajos. The airline shut down in 1983 when the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered the company was being used to smuggle and distribute cocaine. THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103 THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103. DC-3 in 1973. Mr. Jackson initially asked if I had any information on the crash, and I had to admit that I had never found a single mention of it in my years of research. Randy pointed me to flightglobal.com where I found this single sentence: "Four of the 30 passengers on board a DC-3 of Shawnee HISTORY OF PANAMA CITY BAY COUNTY AIRPORT (PART 1: 1940S This is the first of a five part look back at the history of airline service at Bay County Airport at Fannin Field (KPFN), which served Panama City, Florida from 1945 to 2010. Images courtesy of Brent Mooney, Björn Larsson and the Panama City Northwest Regional Library System. Panama City Airport was established in 1945 on land adjacentto
VINTAGE AIRWAYS
While Vintage Airways wasn't a commuter airline, it was often mistaken for one. Founded by Richard Branson (hence the Virgin-esque paint scheme), Vintage operated 1940s-themed nostalgia air tour flights between Orlando and Key West as well as local sightseeing flights beginning in 1992. Flights were later moved from Orlando International Airport to the less congested Kissimmee airport andPINEHURST AIRLINES
Pinehurst, an established cargo and charter airline, began scheduled passenger flights between Atlanta and Greenville/Spartanburg using YS-11s in June 1981. An Atlanta - Huntsville route was added later in the year. The airline's original expansion plans included proposed routes from Atlanta to 20 cities around the southeast, but lowridership
GULL AIR - SUNSHINE SKIES - SUNSHINE SKIES Gull Air operated commuter flights in South Florida during the 1980s as a way to offset the seasonal traffic lulls in its established route network in Massachusetts. Gull Air Cessna 402. Gull Air also operated this classic Beech 18 N969OR. For timetable images and additional information, visit the Gull Air pages at Air Times and TimetableImages.
THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME. 10. BOEING 757. In the age of look-alike twin-jets, the 757 is a standout with its perfectly balanced proportions and simple clean lines. This plane just looks "right". Introduced in 1983, the medium-size, narrow-body AIR FLORIDA COMMUTER Air Miami became the first Air Florida Commuter airline in October 1980. de Havilland Heron N454AM is pictured at Miami. became North American Airlines in December 1980 and continued to operate flights for Air Florida using Herons and CASA 212s. The agreement ended inDEVOE AIRLINES
Devoe served various points in Florida and Alabama from 1981 through 1983 with a fleet of Piper Navajos. The airline shut down in 1983 when the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered the company was being used to smuggle and distribute cocaine. EASTERN METRO EXPRESS Eastern Metro Express was a subsidiary of Houston-based Metro Airlines created specifically to feed Eastern Airlines' hub at Atlanta. Flights began in April 1984, and by 1987 the airline was serving over 20 cities throughout the southeast. The carrier ceased operations when Eastern Airlines shut down in ATLANTA'S CANDLER FIELD Atlanta Mayor Walter Sims approved the site of abandoned racetrack for development as an airport on Monday March 9, 1925. The first scheduled airline service from Atlanta occurred on the morning of September 15, 1926 when a Florida Airways plane departed at 6AM for Macon, Jacksonville, Tampa, Ft. Myers and Miami. VERO MONMOUTH AIRLINES Vero Monmouth was the short-lived sister company of New Jersey-based Monmouth Airlines. The airline began scheduled flights on January 13, 1973 when they took over Vero Beach routes abandoned by Eastern Air Lines when the major airline transitioned to pure-jet equipment that was too large for the relatively small Vero market. The Vero Monmouth fleet consisted of a single de Havilland DH-114 FORMER PBA MARTIN 404 AT FANTASY OF FLIGHT The faded colors of Provincetown-Boston Airline still adorn the weathered fuselage of Martin 404 N40415 (msn 14119) behind the Fantasy of Flight museum near Polk City, Florida. The remains of this once great bird were bought by Kermit Weeks in 2002 and shipped in from Mississippi where the aircraft had been parked since the 1980s. I visited Fantasy of Flight in June 2010 and took a few photosSUNSHINE SKIES
Welcome to Sunshine Skies, a website about vintage commercial aviation with a focus on the smaller airlines and commercial airports of Florida and Georgia. You'll find over two hundred pages full of historic photos, postcards, timetables, route maps, airport diagrams and stories about the airlines, airports and aircraft of the Sunshineand Peach states.
CHALK'S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES Chalk's was one the most legendary commuter airlines in America. Billing itself as "The World's Oldest Airline," Chalk's flew seaplanes in south Florida and the Bahamas for over 8 decades. The airline had many different owners after the death of founder Arthur Chalk in 1977, also operating under the names Chalk's International, Chalk's OceanVINTAGE AIRWAYS
While Vintage Airways wasn't a commuter airline, it was often mistaken for one. Founded by Richard Branson (hence the Virgin-esque paint scheme), Vintage operated 1940s-themed nostalgia air tour flights between Orlando and Key West as well as local sightseeing flights beginning in 1992. Flights were later moved from Orlando International Airport to the less congested Kissimmee airport and THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME. 10. BOEING 757. In the age of look-alike twin-jets, the 757 is a standout with its perfectly balanced proportions and simple clean lines. This plane just looks "right". Introduced in 1983, the medium-size, narrow-body HISTORY OF HARTSFIELD-JACKSON ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL Updated on September 21, 2020, the 40th anniversary of the opening of the current midfield terminal. The following pages trace the evolution of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from its beginnings as a racetrack in 1909 to the world's busiest airport. The pages are in chronological order and the time periods are defined bythe
PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE (PBA) PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE. PBA was probably the most significant commuter airline in Florida history. The airline operated two divisions, one in Cape Cod and one in Florida, with seasonal traffic patterns that complimented each other. The Florida division was known as Naples Airlines from 1960 to 1980, when the name was changed tosimply PBA.
ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST AIRLINES (ASA) ASA began service on June 27, 1979 with a single route between Atlanta and Columbus, GA. The airline quickly became the largest commuter airline in Atlanta and one of the largest regional airlines in the world. ASA absorbed Southeastern Airlines on April 1, 1983 and became a Delta Connection carrier in 1984. Here is a look at the aircraft and REMNANTS OF ATLANTA'S 1961 AIRPORT TERMINAL The following photos show how the remains of the old terminal have disappeared in recent years and what is left today. This is the view of the airport from the Virginia Avenue bridge in 1962. A similar view from Google Maps 58 years later. The Renaissance Hotel is the large building at the center of the photo. THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103 THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103. DC-3 in 1973. Mr. Jackson initially asked if I had any information on the crash, and I had to admit that I had never found a single mention of it in my years of research. Randy pointed me to flightglobal.com where I found this single sentence: "Four of the 30 passengers on board a DC-3 of Shawnee ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST AIRPORT TERMINAL ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST TERMINAL. On September 21, 1980, Atlanta's enormous new passenger terminal, the largest in the world, opened for business. Dubbed "Midfield" because of its central location between the runways, the complex is still in operation today although it has been expanded through the years.SUNSHINE SKIES
Welcome to Sunshine Skies, a website about vintage commercial aviation with a focus on the smaller airlines and commercial airports of Florida and Georgia. You'll find over two hundred pages full of historic photos, postcards, timetables, route maps, airport diagrams and stories about the airlines, airports and aircraft of the Sunshineand Peach states.
CHALK'S INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES Chalk's was one the most legendary commuter airlines in America. Billing itself as "The World's Oldest Airline," Chalk's flew seaplanes in south Florida and the Bahamas for over 8 decades. The airline had many different owners after the death of founder Arthur Chalk in 1977, also operating under the names Chalk's International, Chalk's OceanVINTAGE AIRWAYS
While Vintage Airways wasn't a commuter airline, it was often mistaken for one. Founded by Richard Branson (hence the Virgin-esque paint scheme), Vintage operated 1940s-themed nostalgia air tour flights between Orlando and Key West as well as local sightseeing flights beginning in 1992. Flights were later moved from Orlando International Airport to the less congested Kissimmee airport and THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME. 10. BOEING 757. In the age of look-alike twin-jets, the 757 is a standout with its perfectly balanced proportions and simple clean lines. This plane just looks "right". Introduced in 1983, the medium-size, narrow-body HISTORY OF HARTSFIELD-JACKSON ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL Updated on September 21, 2020, the 40th anniversary of the opening of the current midfield terminal. The following pages trace the evolution of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport from its beginnings as a racetrack in 1909 to the world's busiest airport. The pages are in chronological order and the time periods are defined bythe
PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE (PBA) PROVINCETOWN-BOSTON AIRLINE. PBA was probably the most significant commuter airline in Florida history. The airline operated two divisions, one in Cape Cod and one in Florida, with seasonal traffic patterns that complimented each other. The Florida division was known as Naples Airlines from 1960 to 1980, when the name was changed tosimply PBA.
ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST AIRLINES (ASA) ASA began service on June 27, 1979 with a single route between Atlanta and Columbus, GA. The airline quickly became the largest commuter airline in Atlanta and one of the largest regional airlines in the world. ASA absorbed Southeastern Airlines on April 1, 1983 and became a Delta Connection carrier in 1984. Here is a look at the aircraft and REMNANTS OF ATLANTA'S 1961 AIRPORT TERMINAL The following photos show how the remains of the old terminal have disappeared in recent years and what is left today. This is the view of the airport from the Virginia Avenue bridge in 1962. A similar view from Google Maps 58 years later. The Renaissance Hotel is the large building at the center of the photo. THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103 THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103. DC-3 in 1973. Mr. Jackson initially asked if I had any information on the crash, and I had to admit that I had never found a single mention of it in my years of research. Randy pointed me to flightglobal.com where I found this single sentence: "Four of the 30 passengers on board a DC-3 of Shawnee ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST AIRPORT TERMINAL ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST TERMINAL. On September 21, 1980, Atlanta's enormous new passenger terminal, the largest in the world, opened for business. Dubbed "Midfield" because of its central location between the runways, the complex is still in operation today although it has been expanded through the years.AIRPORT INDEX
If you would like to contribute photos, scans, stories or additional information about any of the airlines, airports or aircraft on this site, please contact me, David Henderson, using the mail icon above. Help preserve the colorful history of aviation in Florida and Georgia! THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME THE 10 MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRLINERS OF ALL TIME. 10. BOEING 757. In the age of look-alike twin-jets, the 757 is a standout with its perfectly balanced proportions and simple clean lines. This plane just looks "right". Introduced in 1983, the medium-size, narrow-body GULL AIR - SUNSHINE SKIES - SUNSHINE SKIES Gull Air operated commuter flights in South Florida during the 1980s as a way to offset the seasonal traffic lulls in its established route network in Massachusetts. Gull Air Cessna 402. Gull Air also operated this classic Beech 18 N969OR. For timetable images and additional information, visit the Gull Air pages at Air Times and TimetableImages.
AIR FLORIDA COMMUTER Air Miami became the first Air Florida Commuter airline in October 1980. de Havilland Heron N454AM is pictured at Miami. became North American Airlines in December 1980 and continued to operate flights for Air Florida using Herons and CASA 212s. The agreement ended in GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES. Gulfstream began operating in 1990 with flights between Miami and Cap Haitien, Haiti, service which was quickly halted due to the unstable political climate in the island country. The following year Gulfstream began flights between Miami, the Bahamas, Orlando and Vero Beach. In 1994 the airline expanded into ATLANTIC SOUTHEAST AIRLINES (ASA) ASA began service on June 27, 1979 with a single route between Atlanta and Columbus, GA. The airline quickly became the largest commuter airline in Atlanta and one of the largest regional airlines in the world. ASA absorbed Southeastern Airlines on April 1, 1983 and became a Delta Connection carrier in 1984. Here is a look at the aircraft and EASTERN METRO EXPRESS Eastern Metro Express was a subsidiary of Houston-based Metro Airlines created specifically to feed Eastern Airlines' hub at Atlanta. Flights began in April 1984, and by 1987 the airline was serving over 20 cities throughout the southeast. The carrier ceased operations when Eastern Airlines shut down in ATLANTA'S CANDLER FIELD Atlanta Mayor Walter Sims approved the site of abandoned racetrack for development as an airport on Monday March 9, 1925. The first scheduled airline service from Atlanta occurred on the morning of September 15, 1926 when a Florida Airways plane departed at 6AM for Macon, Jacksonville, Tampa, Ft. Myers and Miami.AIR FLORIDA
The carrier purchased commuter airline Air Sunshine in 1979, but waited until 1980 to create the Air Florida Commuter system. The airline's image was forever tarnished by the 737 crash into the icy Potomac River in Washington in January 1982. Air Florida fell into financial turmoil and ceased operations on July 3, 1984. ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST AIRPORT TERMINAL ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST TERMINAL. On September 21, 1980, Atlanta's enormous new passenger terminal, the largest in the world, opened for business. Dubbed "Midfield" because of its central location between the runways, the complex is still in operation today although it has been expanded through the years.SUNSHINE SKIES
Welcome to Sunshine Skies, a website about vintage commercial aviation with a focus on the smaller airlines and commercial airports of Florida and Georgia. You'll find over two hundred pages full of historic photos, postcards, timetables, route maps, airport diagrams and stories about the airlines, airports and aircraft of the Sunshineand Peach states.
AIRPORT INDEX
If you would like to contribute photos, scans, stories or additional information about any of the airlines, airports or aircraft on this site, please contact me, David Henderson, using the mail icon above. Help preserve the colorful history of aviation in Florida and Georgia!VINTAGE AIRWAYS
While Vintage Airways wasn't a commuter airline, it was often mistaken for one. Founded by Richard Branson (hence the Virgin-esque paint scheme), Vintage operated 1940s-themed nostalgia air tour flights between Orlando and Key West as well as local sightseeing flights beginning in 1992. Flights were later moved from Orlando International Airport to the less congested Kissimmee airport and GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES. Gulfstream began operating in 1990 with flights between Miami and Cap Haitien, Haiti, service which was quickly halted due to the unstable political climate in the island country. The following year Gulfstream began flights between Miami, the Bahamas, Orlando and Vero Beach. In 1994 the airline expanded intoPINEHURST AIRLINES
Pinehurst, an established cargo and charter airline, began scheduled passenger flights between Atlanta and Greenville/Spartanburg using YS-11s in June 1981. An Atlanta - Huntsville route was added later in the year. The airline's original expansion plans included proposed routes from Atlanta to 20 cities around the southeast, but lowridership
DEVOE AIRLINES
Devoe served various points in Florida and Alabama from 1981 through 1983 with a fleet of Piper Navajos. The airline shut down in 1983 when the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered the company was being used to smuggle and distribute cocaine. THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103 THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103. DC-3 in 1973. Mr. Jackson initially asked if I had any information on the crash, and I had to admit that I had never found a single mention of it in my years of research. Randy pointed me to flightglobal.com where I found this single sentence: "Four of the 30 passengers on board a DC-3 of Shawnee REMNANTS OF ATLANTA'S 1961 AIRPORT TERMINAL The following photos show how the remains of the old terminal have disappeared in recent years and what is left today. This is the view of the airport from the Virginia Avenue bridge in 1962. A similar view from Google Maps 58 years later. The Renaissance Hotel is the large building at the center of the photo. THE LOST AIRPORTS OF ATLANTA THE LOST AIRPORTS OF ATLANTA. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International is known worldwide as the busiest airport on the planet, and other local airports such as DeKalb-Peachtree in northeast Atlanta and Dobbins Air Reserve base in Marietta are well known to Atlantans. Yet, most residents are oblivious to the dozens of former airports HISTORY OF PANAMA CITY BAY COUNTY AIRPORT (PART 1: 1940S This is the first of a five part look back at the history of airline service at Bay County Airport at Fannin Field (KPFN), which served Panama City, Florida from 1945 to 2010. Images courtesy of Brent Mooney, Björn Larsson and the Panama City Northwest Regional Library System. Panama City Airport was established in 1945 on land adjacentto
SUNSHINE SKIES
Welcome to Sunshine Skies, a website about vintage commercial aviation with a focus on the smaller airlines and commercial airports of Florida and Georgia. You'll find over two hundred pages full of historic photos, postcards, timetables, route maps, airport diagrams and stories about the airlines, airports and aircraft of the Sunshineand Peach states.
AIRPORT INDEX
If you would like to contribute photos, scans, stories or additional information about any of the airlines, airports or aircraft on this site, please contact me, David Henderson, using the mail icon above. Help preserve the colorful history of aviation in Florida and Georgia!VINTAGE AIRWAYS
While Vintage Airways wasn't a commuter airline, it was often mistaken for one. Founded by Richard Branson (hence the Virgin-esque paint scheme), Vintage operated 1940s-themed nostalgia air tour flights between Orlando and Key West as well as local sightseeing flights beginning in 1992. Flights were later moved from Orlando International Airport to the less congested Kissimmee airport and GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES GULFSTREAM INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES. Gulfstream began operating in 1990 with flights between Miami and Cap Haitien, Haiti, service which was quickly halted due to the unstable political climate in the island country. The following year Gulfstream began flights between Miami, the Bahamas, Orlando and Vero Beach. In 1994 the airline expanded intoPINEHURST AIRLINES
Pinehurst, an established cargo and charter airline, began scheduled passenger flights between Atlanta and Greenville/Spartanburg using YS-11s in June 1981. An Atlanta - Huntsville route was added later in the year. The airline's original expansion plans included proposed routes from Atlanta to 20 cities around the southeast, but lowridership
DEVOE AIRLINES
Devoe served various points in Florida and Alabama from 1981 through 1983 with a fleet of Piper Navajos. The airline shut down in 1983 when the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered the company was being used to smuggle and distribute cocaine. THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103 THE CRASH OF SHAWNEE AIRLINES FLIGHT 103. DC-3 in 1973. Mr. Jackson initially asked if I had any information on the crash, and I had to admit that I had never found a single mention of it in my years of research. Randy pointed me to flightglobal.com where I found this single sentence: "Four of the 30 passengers on board a DC-3 of Shawnee REMNANTS OF ATLANTA'S 1961 AIRPORT TERMINAL The following photos show how the remains of the old terminal have disappeared in recent years and what is left today. This is the view of the airport from the Virginia Avenue bridge in 1962. A similar view from Google Maps 58 years later. The Renaissance Hotel is the large building at the center of the photo. THE LOST AIRPORTS OF ATLANTA THE LOST AIRPORTS OF ATLANTA. Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International is known worldwide as the busiest airport on the planet, and other local airports such as DeKalb-Peachtree in northeast Atlanta and Dobbins Air Reserve base in Marietta are well known to Atlantans. Yet, most residents are oblivious to the dozens of former airports HISTORY OF PANAMA CITY BAY COUNTY AIRPORT (PART 1: 1940S This is the first of a five part look back at the history of airline service at Bay County Airport at Fannin Field (KPFN), which served Panama City, Florida from 1945 to 2010. Images courtesy of Brent Mooney, Björn Larsson and the Panama City Northwest Regional Library System. Panama City Airport was established in 1945 on land adjacentto
GULL AIR - SUNSHINE SKIES - SUNSHINE SKIES Gull Air operated commuter flights in South Florida during the 1980s as a way to offset the seasonal traffic lulls in its established route network in Massachusetts. Gull Air Cessna 402. Gull Air also operated this classic Beech 18 N969OR. For timetable images and additional information, visit the Gull Air pages at Air Times and TimetableImages.
PINEHURST AIRLINES
Pinehurst, an established cargo and charter airline, began scheduled passenger flights between Atlanta and Greenville/Spartanburg using YS-11s in June 1981. An Atlanta - Huntsville route was added later in the year. The airline's original expansion plans included proposed routes from Atlanta to 20 cities around the southeast, but lowridership
WALKERS CAY AIRLINES Fort Lauderdale based Walker's Cay Airlines, formerly a charter airline called Walker's Cay Air Terminal, began daily scheduled commuter flights between Florida and Walker's Cay, Bahamas in 1980. The fleet in early 1981 consisted of 3 aircraft, a Twin Otter and aGrumman Mallard
DEVOE AIRLINES
Devoe served various points in Florida and Alabama from 1981 through 1983 with a fleet of Piper Navajos. The airline shut down in 1983 when the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered the company was being used to smuggle and distribute cocaine.SHAWNEE AIRLINES
Shawnee introduced this stunning tropical paint scheme on DC-3 N1301 when it became a subsidiary of Florida Airlines in 1975. Martin 404s joined the fleet in 1976 and were used on lucrative routes to the Bahamas. DC-3 N45366, seen at Sarasota in January 1977, sports yet another variation of the hot pink / yellow paint scheme. AIR FLORIDA COMMUTER Air Miami became the first Air Florida Commuter airline in October 1980. de Havilland Heron N454AM is pictured at Miami. became North American Airlines in December 1980 and continued to operate flights for Air Florida using Herons and CASA 212s. The agreement ended in VERO MONMOUTH AIRLINES Vero Monmouth was the short-lived sister company of New Jersey-based Monmouth Airlines. The airline began scheduled flights on January 13, 1973 when they took over Vero Beach routes abandoned by Eastern Air Lines when the major airline transitioned to pure-jet equipment that was too large for the relatively small Vero market. The Vero Monmouth fleet consisted of a single de Havilland DH-114 ATLANTA'S CANDLER FIELD Atlanta Mayor Walter Sims approved the site of abandoned racetrack for development as an airport on Monday March 9, 1925. The first scheduled airline service from Atlanta occurred on the morning of September 15, 1926 when a Florida Airways plane departed at 6AM for Macon, Jacksonville, Tampa, Ft. Myers and Miami. ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST AIRPORT TERMINAL ATLANTA OPENS THE WORLD'S LARGEST TERMINAL. On September 21, 1980, Atlanta's enormous new passenger terminal, the largest in the world, opened for business. Dubbed "Midfield" because of its central location between the runways, the complex is still in operation today although it has been expanded through the years. FORMER PBA MARTIN 404 AT FANTASY OF FLIGHT The faded colors of Provincetown-Boston Airline still adorn the weathered fuselage of Martin 404 N40415 (msn 14119) behind the Fantasy of Flight museum near Polk City, Florida. The remains of this once great bird were bought by Kermit Weeks in 2002 and shipped in from Mississippi where the aircraft had been parked since the 1980s. I visited Fantasy of Flight in June 2010 and took a few photos* Home
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PBA'S DOUGLAS DC-3S : WHERE ARE THEY TODAY? PBA was famous for their fleet of vintage DC-3s. Where are those planes today? We track down all 12 former PBA DC-3s.Read More
THE HISTORY OF ATLANTA HARTSFIELD-JACKSON AIRPORT Hundreds of historic photos of ATL, tracing its history from a dirt racetrack in 1909 to the world's busiest airport today.Read More
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