Transcontinental Airway System information

The Transcontinental Airway System was a navigational aid deployed in the United States during the 1920s. In 1923, the United States Congress funded a...

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Airway beacons. Index of aviation articles Transcontinental Airway System (United States) "The Aerial Lighthouse"...

peak is the site of large concrete arrows once used by the Transcontinental Airway System. Sugarloaf is 177 acres and has 3 miles of trails. It includes...

Fleet. Fred S. Robillard List of United States airmail stamps Transcontinental Airway System "Airmail: The Air Mail Act of 1925 through 1929". CentennialOfFlight...

electronic device avionics system was Lawrence Sperry's autopilot, demonstrated in June 1914. The Transcontinental Airway System chain of beacons was built...

northeast corner of West Cornman Road and Carmel Boulevard. Transcontinental Airway System Wikimedia Commons has media related to Casa Grande Calibration...

Breeze Airways, legally Breeze Aviation Group, Inc., is a low-cost airline in the United States headquartered in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. The airline...

Medicine Bow Airport (FAA LID: 80V), is an early lighted airway on the Transcontinental Airway System, located just south of the town of Medicine Bow, Wyoming...

(PSA), and was one of the U.S.'s seven transcontinental legacy carriers. In 1997, it rebranded as US Airways. The airline had an extensive international...

until it 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...

were made at established air stations along the fully-equipped Transcontinental Airway System at New York City; Bellefonte, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Bryan...

JetBlue Airways Corporation (stylized as jetBlue) is a low-cost airline in the United States. It is headquartered in the Long Island City neighborhood...

was made in 1930 into an operating company and rebranded as American Airways. In 1934, when new laws and attrition of mail contracts forced many airlines...

eventually to 60. In 1935, Pan American Airways, United Airlines, American Airlines, Eastern Air Lines and Transcontinental & Western Air (T&WA) had each signed...

Qantas Airways Limited (/ˈkwɒntəs/ KWON-təs) is the flag carrier of Australia. It is the largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international...

Ginger Coote Airways, Yukon Southern Air Transport, Wings, Prairie Airways, Mackenzie Air Services, Arrow Airways, Starratt Airways, Quebec Airways and Montreal...

American earned its keep carrying U.S. Mail. By 1933, American Airways operated a transcontinental route network serving 72 cities, mostly in the northeastern...

without pecuniary benefit to the membership." The club was founded by Transcontinental & Western Air, later Trans World Airlines (TWA), President William...

November 23, 1984. It was founded as Capitol Airways in 1946, and then renamed Capitol International Airways in 1967. In 1981, the airline changed its name...

Delta the largest airline in the world until the American Airlines–US Airways merger in 2013. Northwest was headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, near Minneapolis–Saint...

entrepreneur. Braniff was one of the original founders of Braniff International Airways. He served as a mechanic in World War I in the United States Army and then...

horse-drawn machinery, as a method of providing some employment. By 1937, the airway system stretched from Vancouver to Sydney, a distance of 3108 miles. In 1928...

used for short and mid-range domestic routes, shuttle services, and transcontinental U.S. flights. ETOPS extended flights were approved in 1986 to fly intercontinental...

announced its intention to introduce premium seats on some of its transcontinental flights in March 2013. The company officially announced its Mint premium...

Air Mail Service included the establishment of a transcontinental route and the development of airway lighting. In 1925, the Airmail Act of 1925 authorized...