Pacific Air Lines
| Pacific Air Lines | |
|---|---|
 A Martin 404 from Pacific Air Lines |
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| IATA code : | Pc |
| ICAO code : | PCA |
| Call sign : | PACIFIC |
| Founding: | 1946 |
| Operation stopped: | 1968 |
| Seat: |
San Francisco , California , United States
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| Home airport : | San Francisco International Airport |
| Fleet size: | 19th |
| Aims: | |
| Pacific Air Lines ceased operations in 1968. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Pacific Air Lines was an American airline that mainly served cities in California .
history
In 1941 the US veteran Jack Connelly and the Hollywood producer Leland Hayward concluded a business partnership, which in 1946 developed into the airline Southwest Airways. It began its flight operations on December 2, 1946 with a Douglas DC-3 / C-47 . In August 1953, Southwest Airways served 23 airports, all except Medford , Oregon, in California. In 1948 Southwest Airways had ten aircraft, all DC-3s. One of the DC-3s flew from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 3 hours and 45 minutes with eight stopovers.
In 1952, Southwest Airways received eight Martin 2-0-2 that were faster and larger than the DC-3.
On May 6, 1958, Southwest Airways was renamed Pacific Air Lines. The following year the airline took over 14 Martin 4-0-4 , which were equipped with a pressurized cabin . At the same time, a Fairchild F-27 was integrated into the Pacific Air Lines fleet.
In 1962, Pacific Air Lines phased out their last DC-3 and two years later their Martin 2-0-2. In 1965, Pacific Air Lines took over six Boeing 727-100s , but they turned out to be uneconomical for flights on the Pacific coast. Two Boeing 727-100s were leased to National Airlines . In 1967 the last flight of a Martin 4-0-4 of Pacific Air Lines took place. Pacific Air Lines also showed interest in the Boeing 737-200 , which however never delivered.
On July 1, 1968, Pacific Air Lines merged with West Coast Airlines and Bonanza Air Lines to form Hughes Airwest . At that time the fleet consisted of eleven Fairchild F-27s , five Martin 4-0-4 and three Boeing 727s . Hughes Airwest withdrew the Boeing 727 from Pacific Air Lines after only a short time.
fleet
Southwest Airways and Pacific Air Lines operated the following types of aircraft:
Incidents
From 1946 to the cessation of operations in 1968, Southwest Airways and Pacific Air Lines suffered 4 total write-offs of aircraft. In 3 of them 67 people were killed. Example:
- On April 6, 1951, a Douglas DC-3 / C-47A-90-DL of Southwest Airways ( aircraft registration number N63439 ) was flown in cloudy weather at Refugio Pass, California , USA , at an altitude of 840 m against a mountain. The prescribed minimum flight altitude was 1220 m. All 22 occupants, 3 crew members and 19 passengers were killed.
- On May 7, 1964 at 6:49 a.m. (PST), a Pacific Air Lines Fairchild F-27 A crashed on a flight from Reno, Nevada to San Francisco International Airport near the town of San Ramon, California. The likely cause was the wounding or killing of the cockpit crew by a passenger. The driverless machine then crashed into a mountainside. All occupants still alive were killed in the impact, a total of 44 people died (see also Pacific Air Lines flight 773 ) .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pacific Air Lines era (1958-1968). In: pacificairlinesportfolio.com. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
- ^ Southwest Airways & Pacific Air Lines , accessed July 26, 2020.
- ↑ Accident Statistics Southwest Airways , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 26, 2020.
- ↑ Accident Statistics Pacific Air Lines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 26, 2020.
- ↑ accident report DC-3 N63439 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 10 of 2019.
- ^ Accident report Fairchild F-27 N2770R , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 26, 2020.