Florida ideal secondary maintenance location
Growing business. VAE’s 2nd ops base. WWII Hendricks Field to transition to Sebring Air Terminal. Archives tell the story.
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Growing business. VAE’s 2nd ops base. WWII Hendricks Field to transition to Sebring Air Terminal. Archives tell the story.
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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 »
1946 press clipping with prized photo. 2015 face-to-face details from Martz and Cowart! Come see.
1st Prague crew returns. 23 April 1946. UNRRA Read More »
A pride hard to verbalize shudders through me every time I see this film footage of my Dad’s crew members disembarking from the Veterans Air Line DC-4 in Prague. Saunie Gravely was 22 when he got the idea of an all-Veterans air service. And this amazing footage is proof of his dream-become-reality. Come watch. Sorry, no popcorn today.
1946 film of UNRRA Prague crew arrival Read More »
UNRRA war-relief. DC-4 flights to Prague three times and Warsaw twice with poultry hatching eggs.
2nd Prague Crew departs for home. 2 May 1946 UNRRA 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 »
Hollywood star Carole Landis christened Veterans Air Line DC-4 on July 24, 1946. The aircraft and attending celebrity Mrs. Gloria Vanderbilt both got champagne-splashed. Still searching for press photo coverage of event.
Carole Landis christens non-sked DC-4. July1946 Read More »
In May 2015, the daughter of WWII vet, Saunie Gravely, begins a research project about Veterans Air Express and Veterans Air Line.
Research project seeks 1945 Non-sked story. Read More »
My favorite photo of Dad and Veterans Air DC-3 the GAYE LYN just posted on ABCDlist.nl in a DC-3s gallery frequented by DC-3 loyalists & crews. Hope for contact from those familiar with Veterans Air Express.
DC-3 Gaye Lyn joins ABCDlist.nl Gallery of DC-3s Read More »
There’s a lot of Veterans Air Express information “out there.” Lots need cross-checking, verification, discussion from World War II vets, ex-Army Air Corps and families, aviation buffs, research librarians. This website shares the known & need to know. You’re invited.
Facts “known” at odds with other “Facts” Read More »