Hughes Airwest
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Hughes Airwest was a local service carrier, a scheduled airline in the Western United States from 1970 to 1980. It was backed by Howard Hughes' Summa Corporation. Its original name in 1968 was Air Wes
Air West Fairchild F-27A in 1970 at San Francisco International Airport
The Air West color scheme prior to conversion to Sundance Yellow and Universal Blue
Hughes Airwest DC-9s in 1979
Pacific Air Lines
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Pacific Air Lines was a local service carrier on the West Coast of the United States that began scheduled passenger flights in the mid-1940s under the name Southwest Airways. The company linked small
Hughes Airwest
…On April 17, 1968, three earlier local service carriers in the western U.S. merged to form Air West: Pacific Air Lines, which previously operated as Southwest Airways when it was founded in 1941, was based in San Francisco, flew along the coast and California's Central…
A Douglas DC-3 of Southwest Airways at Los Angeles International Airport (1949)
Martin 2-0-2
Martin 4-0-4 in Pacific Air Lines colors at Camarillo, California, January 3, 2008: A lowered airstair is below the tail
F-27A at San Francisco in 1962