1945 express delivery of perishable produce
Saunie considers C-60 Lockheed Lodestar. That will change. But Newark Evening News reporter gives extensive Air Express details.
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Saunie considers C-60 Lockheed Lodestar. That will change. But Newark Evening News reporter gives extensive Air Express details.
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DC-3 Captain Robert Montanarello, left seat, is first hire of the Veterans Air Flight Crews.
KY journalist covers people, plans, glider, turkeys. Read More »
A scheduled cargo flight of ice-packed turkeys in a DC-3-towed-glider. A historic flight?
Glider on the horizon Read More »
Veterans Air Express prepared a CAB route app – for permanent, scheduled service, worldwide authority. It reveals hopes & intentions of the Vets & their investors.
Greenleaf Sr. saves CAB worldwide route filing Read More »
Growing business. VAE’s 2nd ops base. WWII Hendricks Field to transition to Sebring Air Terminal. Archives tell the story.
Florida ideal secondary maintenance location Read More »
An “experimental” DC-4. A high-energy group of hardworking ex-servicemen. A Veterans Air Express UNRRA contract for cargo flights behind the iron curtain. And Newark/Miami winter passenger flights. By mid-1946, the all-veterans organization was becoming recognized and starting to thrive.
“Experimental” DC-4 expedited for UNRRA war relief flights Read More »
Company techs convert an Army C-54 to second cargo DC-4 in just 13 days. But too slow military-to-civilian airfield negotiations hinder FL ops plans.
DC-4 converted at Sebring FL ops base Read More »
A gathering of 1946 Warsaw By-line headlines by Michael Frome – Washington Post Staff Writer and Veterans Air DC-4 Navigator.
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In 1946, contracted by United Nations Relief & Rehabilitation Administration, Veterans Air flew five war-relief cargos of fertilized hatching eggs to Prague and Warsaw and one flight to Athens of dairy breeding calves.
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Ironic Proof of CAB Applications – and no CAB responses In October 2015, an undated Civil Aeronautics Board Application for worldwide routes surfaced and created more questions than it answered. It was among John Greenleaf, Sr.’s papers. He had spoken about the application with his son, John, Jr, telling him he couldn’t remember why he
CAB 1948 “Order Dismissing Applications” turns up Read More »