Colgan Air
| Colgan Air Inc. | |
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| IATA code : | 9L |
| ICAO code : | CJC |
| Call sign : | COLGAN |
| Founding: | 1991 |
| Operation stopped: | 2012 |
| Seat: |
Manassas , United States
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| Turnstile : |
for US Airways Express: for United Express: |
| Fleet size: | 60 |
| Aims: | national |
| Colgan Air Inc. ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Colgan Air was a US regional airline based in Manassas , Virginia and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corp.
history
In 1965, Charles J. Colgan Sr. and 16 shareholders formed Colgan Airways Corporation, with its headquarters and main base in Manassas Airport, Virginia.
In 1970, the company began on behalf of IBM with scheduled flights from Manassas to Washington-Dulles . In 1986 9 aircraft served 12 cities from the Washington-National and Washington-Dulles hubs . In the same year the company was sold to President Airlines .
After the collapse of President Airlines in 1991, Charles J. Colgan and his son Mike Colgan began rebuilding Colgan Air Inc. with just one aircraft. In July 1997, Colgan Air began a code-share agreement with Continental Airlines for feeder flights under the name Continental Connection.
In December 1999, another code-share agreement followed with US Airways for flights under the name US Airways Express. Another agreement followed in October 2005 with United Airlines for flights under the name United Express. On January 15, 2007, Pinnacle Airlines Corp., owner of Pinnacle Airlines, Inc. acquired Colgan Air.
In the course of the takeover of Mesaba Airlines by the parent company Pinnacle Airlines Corp. it was announced that Colgan Air would cease operations as part of a restructuring and its fleet would be transferred to Mesaba. This should in future be used for all turboprop aircraft from Pinnacle Airlines Corp. operate, while the sister company Pinnacle Airlines should concentrate on jets. Mesaba Airlines has since been dissolved itself and integrated into Pinnacle Airlines. On April 1, 2012, Pinnacle filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy , but will continue to operate until further notice.
On September 5, 2012, Colgan Air made its last flight and ceased operations.
Destinations
Colgan Air flew in code-share feeder traffic as United Express and US Airways Express from major hubs such as Boston , Houston , New York , Pittsburgh and Washington to medium-sized and small airports in the United States. Since February 2008 she has also operated flights from Newark for Continental Connection .
fleet
When operations ceased, Colgan Air's fleet consisted of 60 aircraft:
Incidents
- On 26 August 2003, a crashed Beechcraft 1900D of the US Airways Express ( air vehicle registration N240CJ ), which was operated by Colgan Air, shortly after taking off from Barnstable Municipal Airport ( Massachusetts ) at Hyannis into the sea. Both pilots were killed on board the machine in the accident. The crash was caused by gross maintenance errors (see also Colgan Air flight 9446 ) .
- On February 12, 2009, a De Havilland DHC-8-400 crashed in Clarence , New York. It was Continental Airlines Flight 3407 from Newark to Buffalo . All 44 passengers, 4 crew members as well as one other pilot out of service and one person on the ground were killed. The cause was a pilot's error, whereupon the Federal Aviation Administration changed the law insofar as professional airline pilots must have at least 1500 hours of flight experience since then.
See also
Web links
- Website of the Colgan Air (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Reuters.com: Pinnacle Airlines flies into bankruptcy , April 2, 2012.
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - Colgan Air ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on April 2, 2012.
- ↑ accident report Beech 1900D N240CJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 29 April 2020th
- ↑ US regional airlines want the law to be relaxed , accessed on December 8, 2015.
