US charter airline part-owned by Purdue University (1968-1971)
Purdue University has a history of operating airlines directly or through affiliates, including:
- charter operations of its own through wholly-owned non-profit Purdue Aeronautics Corporation
- being briefly certificated by the US government to operate scheduled service through Purdue Aeronautics
- separately briefly owning another scheduled airline, Mid-West Airlines
- contributing its name to a part-owned for-profit charter jet airline, Purdue Airlines
Purdue Airlines was incidentally instrumental in the startup of Southwest Airlines.