Lake Central Airlines
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| Commenced operations | 1950 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 1968, June 1 | ||||||
| Operating bases | Parent company Employee owned | | |||||
| Headquarters | Indianapolis, Indiana, United States | ||||||
Lake Central Airlines was an
USAir. In 1997 USAir became US Airways. In 2015 US Airways was acquired by American Airlines
.
History
The airline was founded as
Indianapolis, Indiana
. Lake Central's network in the 1950s extended from Chicago to Pittsburgh; in August 1953 it scheduled flights to 21 airports and in May 1968 to 39.
Like other
local service airlines regulated by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board, Lake Central was subsidized; in 1962 its revenue of $10.8 million included $4.2 million of "pub. serv. rev.".[1]
In February 1955 Lake Central Airlines became the first employee-owned scheduled airline in the history of the air transport industry.[2] 162 employees (65% of the total) bought 97.5% of the outstanding stock, 25% outright and the rest financed over 24 months.
Effective July 1, 1968, the airline was acquired by and merged into
Boeing 737-200s
but the order was cancelled.
Fleet
It flew
Nord 262s. DC-3 flights ended in 1967 and by spring 1968 Lake Central had an all-turboprop fleet of Convair 580s and Nord 262s.[4]
Historical fleet
Nord 262
was delivered in August 1965Lake Central Airlines previously operated the following aircraft:[5]
- 8 Convair CV-340
- 4 Convair CV-580
- 1 Curtiss C-46 Commando (N1802M)
- 14 Douglas DC-3
- 5 Douglas C-47 Skytrain
- 3 Douglas C-53 Skytrooper
- 12 Nord 262A
Destinations in 1968
Shortly before the merger into Allegheny Airlines, Lake Central was serving the following cities with an all-turboprop fleet consisting
Nord 262 aircraft according to its April 28, 1968 timetable:[6]
- Akron/Canton, Ohio
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Bloomington, Indiana
- Buffalo, New York
- Charleston, West Virginia
- Chicago O'Hare Airport)
- Cincinnati, Ohio- hub
- Clarksburg, West Virginia
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Columbus, Ohio - hub
- Danville, Illinois
- Dayton, Ohio
- Detroit, Michigan
- Elkins, West Virginia
- Erie, Pennsylvania
- Evansville, Indiana
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Indianapolis, Indiana- hub & airline headquarters
- Kalamazoo, Michigan
- Kokomo, Indiana
- Lafayette, Indiana
- Lima, Ohio
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Mansfield, Ohio
- Marion, Indiana
- Martinsburg, West Virginia
- Morgantown, West Virginia
- Muncie, Indiana
- Parkersburg, West Virginia
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Portsmouth, Ohio
- St. Louis, Missouri
- South Bend, Indiana
- Terre Haute, Indiana
- Toledo, Ohio
- Washington National Airport)
- Wheeling, West Virginia
- Youngstown, Ohio
- Zanesville, Ohio
Accidents and incidents
- On March 5, 1967, Convair 580, crashed near Marseilles, Ohio, with the loss of all 38 passengers and crew.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Moody's Transportation Manual 1964
- ^ Aviation Week 21 Feb 1955 p111
- ISBN 0-253-31222-1.
- ^ http://www.timetableimages.com, April 28, 1968 Lake Central timetable
- ^ "Lake Central Airlines". rzjets. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
- ^ "April 28, 1968 Lake Central timetable". Retrieved January 16, 2018.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
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