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Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) was an airline founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys that merged in 1930 with Western Air Express to form what became TWA. Keys enlisted the help of Charles Lindbergh to design a transcontinental network to get government airmail contracts. Lindbergh established numerous airports across the country in this effort.

Lindbergh with TAT executives

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Transcontinental Air Transport

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Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T) was an airline founded in 1928 by Clement Melville Keys that merged in 1930 with Western Air Express to form what...

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was acquired by American Airlines in 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St...

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List of airline mergers and acquisitions

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with Transcontinental Air Transport T-A-T to form Transcontinental & Western Air T&WA. 1934 - Western Air Express broke off from Transcontinental & Western...

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Cannon Air Force Base

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Clovis. Transcontinental Air Transport went on to merge with Western Air Express and form what would become Trans World Airlines (TWA) while Western Air Express...

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Air Mail scandal

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what was described as a "shotgun marriage" between Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express in July to achieve the second of the three companies...

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Tat

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French regional airline Total air temperature, sometimes referred to as Stagnation Temperature Transcontinental Air Transport, a former US airline Takraw...

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Eugene Luther Vidal

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general manager of Transcontinental Air Transport (later TWA)." From September 1933 to March 1937 he was Director of the Bureau of Air Commerce (a predecessor...

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List of airlines by foundation date

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 United States Founded as Western Air Express; merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to form Transcontinental & Western Air in 1930; severed from T & WA...

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Ford Trimotor

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(S.A.F.E.way) Star Air Service Texaco Transcontinental Air Transport Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA) United Air Lines Wien Air Alaska  Venezuela AVENSA...

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Maddux Air Lines

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1929 Transcontinental Air Transport (T-A-T), an airline offering transcontinental service with the use of trains and planes, bought Maddux Air Lines...

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Standard Air Lines

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as Chief of Operations. Later in 1930, Western Air Express merged with Transcontinental Air Transport in 1930 to form T&WA (TWA). Frye became president...

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Amelia Earhart

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Margaret Bartlett Thornton) was appointed by Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT, later TWA) to promote air travel, particularly for women; and invested...

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Ethiopian Airlines

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the Ethiopian government began negotiations with both Transcontinental Air Transport and Western Air Express (later merged into TWA). On 8 September 1945...

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Stout Army Air Field

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Airport. Curtiss and Transcontinental Air Transport moved their passenger service and school to the new airport. The United States Army Air Corps leased Stout...

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Airline deregulation

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and Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA). Contracts for each of three transcontinental air mail routes were awarded to United Aircraft and Transport Corporation...

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Floyd Odlum

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provided a link to Armsby and John Cheever Cowdin's enterprise Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc. In 1948, Odlum sold RKO to Howard Hughes. Odlum was an...

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Western Airlines

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merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to form Transcontinental & Western Air (TWA, later known as Trans World Airlines). In 1934 Western Air Express...

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Clement Melville Keys

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to Eastern Air Transport and finally Eastern Airlines. Another venture, Transcontinental Air Transport eventually merged with Western Air Express to form...

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Universal Air Lines Corporation

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Universal Air Lines was an airline based in the United States. Universal Air Lines was an air-rail conglomerate competing with rival Transcontinental Air Transport...

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Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport

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these routes for Western Air Express were merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to become Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) and Amarillo became...

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First transcontinental railroad

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America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous...

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Gore Vidal

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airline companies: the Ludington Line (later Eastern Airlines), Transcontinental Air Transport (later Trans World Airlines), and Northeast Airlines.: 12  Gore's...

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George Newell Armsby

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Pictures; they were also both involved in the formation of Transcontinental Air Transport, Inc., which was later a foundation of TWA. Armsby was born...

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Mode of transport

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A mode of transport is a method or way of traveling, or of transporting people or cargo. The different modes of transport include air, water, and land...

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John Glenn Columbus International Airport

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Lindbergh, as the eastern air terminus of the Transcontinental Air Transport air-rail New York to Los Angeles transcontinental route. Passengers traveled...

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Kirtland Air Force Base

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soon drew business from private flyers, as well as Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT) and Western Air Express (WAE), commercial airlines that set up operations...

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Albuquerque International Sunport

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airlines to serve the airports were Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), Western Air Express (WAE), and Mid Continent Air Express, all inaugurating service...

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