Author: GARVEY, WILLIAM & DAVID FISHER & RANDY JOHNSON
Title: The Age of Flight a History of America's Pioneering Airline
Description: Greensboro, NC: Pace Communications, 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0966706110. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "United traces its roots to Varney Air Lines (VAL) , which Walter Varney founded in 1926 in Boise, Idaho. Continental Airlines is the successor to Speed Lanes, which Varney had founded by 1932 and whose name changed to Varney Speed Lines in 1934. VAL flew the first privately contracted air mail flight in the U. S. On April 6, 1926. In 1927, William Boeing founded Boeing Air Transport to operate air mail routes under contract with the United States Post Office Department. In 1929, Boeing merged his company with Pratt & Whitney to form the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (UATC) which then set about buying, in the space of just 28 months, Pacific Air Transport, Stout Air Services, VAL, and National Air Transport, as well as numerous equipment manufacturers at the same time. On March 28, 1931, UATC formed United Air Lines, Inc. As a holding company for its airline subsidiaries. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0966706110 Aeronautics / Astronautics William Garvey David Fisher Randy Johnson United Airlines Airline Companies
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Title: The Age of Flight a History of America's Pioneering Airline
Description: Greensboro, NC: Pace Communications, 2001. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0966706110. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "United traces its roots to Varney Air Lines (VAL) , which Walter Varney founded in 1926 in Boise, Idaho. Continental Airlines is the successor to Speed Lanes, which Varney had founded by 1932 and whose name changed to Varney Speed Lines in 1934. VAL flew the first privately contracted air mail flight in the U. S. On April 6, 1926. In 1927, William Boeing founded Boeing Air Transport to operate air mail routes under contract with the United States Post Office Department. In 1929, Boeing merged his company with Pratt & Whitney to form the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (UATC) which then set about buying, in the space of just 28 months, Pacific Air Transport, Stout Air Services, VAL, and National Air Transport, as well as numerous equipment manufacturers at the same time. On March 28, 1931, UATC formed United Air Lines, Inc. As a holding company for its airline subsidiaries. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0966706110 Aeronautics / Astronautics William Garvey David Fisher Randy Johnson United Airlines Airline Companies
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 42926
- Book number: 42926
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