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in 1940, when Davis purchased Camel City Flying
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On August 10, 1968, Piedmont Flight 230 was on an ILS localizer only approach to
Charleston-Kanawha County Airport (CRW) runway 23 when it struck trees 360 feet (110 meters) from the runway threshold. The aircraft continued and struck up sloping terrain (+30 degrees) 250 feet (76 meters) short in a
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In 1978, still under U.S. route regulation, Piedmont added Boston, Denver, and Miami. Flights to Dallas/Ft. Worth and Tampa began in 1979 followed by
Houston in January 1980 and New Orleans in 1982. In 1984 Los Angeles and San Francisco were added followed by Minneapolis/St. Paul in 1985, Montreal
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Cincinnati and Louisville east to Norfolk and points south. The map reached Knoxville in 1951–1952, Columbus OH and Washington DC in 1955, Atlanta and Baltimore in 1962, New York La Guardia in 1966, Nashville and Memphis in 1968 and Chicago Midway in December 1969.
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Dayton and Kansas City; nonstop between
Phoenix and Baltimore and Charlotte; and nonstop between Seattle and Charlotte Shortly before the merger with USAir in 1989, Piedmont had hubs at Baltimore, Charlotte, Dayton and Syracuse. Syracuse was the smallest hub; it had been an Empire hub.
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In April 1989, shortly before it merged into USAir, Piedmont had 22,000 employees. In
September 1988 it flew to 95 airports from hubs in the eastern United States; its commuter and regional affiliates flew turboprop aircraft via
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Airlines was absorbed by
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flight service in the southeast. After several years of lobbying government agencies and fighting legal challenges from other airlines, Piedmont received authorization on
January 1, 1948. The first flight, from
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October 17, 2015, with the American name being retained. The Charlotte hub established by Piedmont and maintained by US Airways continues under American; it is now American's second-largest hub.
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2627:History of American Airlines
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2099:Executive Airlines
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1987:US Airways Shuttle
1975:US Airways Express
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1832:Executive Airlines
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2060:Mergers and
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667:NAMC YS-11A
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2706:Categories
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2545:E. L. Cord
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2216:AAdvantage
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2174:US Airways
1862:US Airways
1700:US Airways
1270:26 January
1242:23 January
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1157:26 January
1104:References
1065:Cessna 310
1046:perished.
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322:Key people
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2307:July 1943
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1512:Companies
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257:Charlotte
252:Baltimore
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1777:Airlines
1524:Aviation
1167:cite web
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