Arrow Airways and Canadian Airways merged to form Canadian Pacific Airlines. This airline would later be sold to Pacific Western Airlines in 1987, renaming the paired company Canadian Airlines International. This operation would later be absorbed by Air Canada in 2000.
ATA - American Trans Air filed for bankruptcy April 2, 2008
  Bonanza Airlines - merged Pacific AirLines and West Coast AirLines as Hughes Air West 1968
California Central Airlines - operated SAN-LAX-BUR-SFO-OAK-IYK. Ended operations 1954
California Eastern - sold to Slick 1948
Capital Airlines - May 1960, Vickers/Rolls Royce foreclosed on Capital's entire fleet of Viscounts. July 28, 1960 a merger with United Airlines was announced and completed July 1, 1961
Central Airlines
- started with a fleet of eleven Beechcraft Bonanza A35s in 1949. Central was sold and merged into Frontier Airlines on October 1, 1967.
Chicago & Southern Airlines - formerly Seaboard Air, Merged with Delta
Colonial Airlines - formerly Canadian Colonial Airlines, merged with Eastern Airlines)
North Central - bought Southern Airways in 1979. A merger of the two airlines formed Republic Airlines. Republic later acquired San Francisco-based Hughes Airwest.
Northeast - acquired by Delta Air Lines 1973
Northwest - acquired by Delta Air Lines Oct. 30, 2008. Delta acquisition of Northwest is a $2.6 billion all-stock transaction, based on Northwest's share price
Overseas National - The board of directors decided to liquidate Oct. 1978.
Pan American
  Pan American - Pacific routes sold to United Airlines Feb. 11, 1986. Filed for bankruptcy 1991. Early 1997 brief revival of some services. Filed for bankruptcy Feb. 27, 1998
Peoples Express - merged into New York Air/Continental/Texas Air
Airline History Museum (Save A Connie)   - (MKC Airport) Kansas City, MO, July, 2005 "The Connie" blew number 2 engine. The museum raised $120,000 to overhaul it. "Museum "Connie" is now a movie star... A motion picture, "The Aviator", stars Museum Connie. It's a story about the life of aviation pioneer Howard Hughes. The development of the Constellation was a major event in his aviation career. Filming, with the AHM Constellation was at the San Bernardino Airport, located just east of Los Angeles. The AHM Connie, complete with the original TWA paint scheme, created a perfect "set" for the movie makers. Some minor changes were made to the aircraft's exterior using water-based paints. The director, Martin Scorsese, and the star, Leonardo DiCaprio, are both very well known. The AHM Connie has been seen on the "big screen" all over the world.
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