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| Founded | 24 September 1949 incorporated in Texas as American Flyers, Inc. | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 27 May 1971 merged into Universal Airlines | ||||||
| Operating bases | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Ardmore, Oklahoma | ||||||
| Parent company | The Hillman Company (1967–1971) | ||||||
| Headquarters | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Ft Worth, Texas, United States | ||||||
| Founder | Reed Pigman (owner/president until 1966) | ||||||
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(1) IATA, ICAO codes were the same until the 1980s | |||||||
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American Flyers Airline Corporation (AFA) was a United States airline that operated from 1949 to 1971, certificated as a supplemental air carrier (also known as an irregular air carrier) by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now defunct Federal agency that, at the time, regulated almost all commercial air transportation in the United States. AFA was owned and operated by aviator Reed Pigman until his death in an AFA accident in 1966. In 1967, ownership passed to a Pennsylvania company, and in 1971, AFA merged into Universal Airlines, another supplemental airline.
The airline was an offshoot of a pilot training enterprise which remains in business as of 2024 as American Flyers.[2]
- ^ a b Contractions (Report). Federal Aviation Agency. 15 March 1963. pp. 47–48. hdl:2027/uc1.c101986578.
- ^ "American Flyers website". americanflyers.com. American Flyers. Retrieved 31 August 2024.