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Uraba, Medellin And Central Airways
Uraba, Medellin and Central Airways (UMCA) was a Pan American Airways-affiliate airline that from 1932 flew from the then US-controlled Panama Canal Zone to Colombia. The carrier was majority and then wholly-owned by Pan Am, and certificated in 1940 as a United States international scheduled carrier by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now-defunct Federal agency that, at the time, tightly regulated almost all US commercial transportation. In 1959 the CAB permitted UMCA to cease operations. The carrier did not have a fleet or crews of its own; instead, Pan Am flew on behalf of UMCA. History UMCA was incorporated in Delaware 24 August 1931 Pan Am organized UMCA in conjunction with a Colombian citizen, Gonzalo Mejía, with whom Pan Am shared ownership. UMCA started operations on 12 July 1932. In November 1940, the CAB certificated UMCA under the terms of the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act, which required all airlines to be certificated. UMCA qualified by virtue of grandfathering, abl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fleet
Fleet may refer to: Vehicles * Fishing fleet *Naval fleet * Fleet vehicles, a pool of motor vehicles * Fleet Aircraft, the aircraft manufacturing company Places Canada * Fleet, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet England * The Fleet Lagoon, at Chesil Beach, Dorset * Fleet, Dorset, England, a village and civil parish * Fleet, Hampshire, England, a town and civil parish * Fleet, Hayling Island, Hampshire, England, a hamlet * Fleet Pond, Hampshire, England *River Fleet, subterranean river in London, England **Fleet Street, named after the river ** Fleet Prison, named after the river **Fleet Line, named after the river, was the original name for the London Underground Jubillee Line * Fleet, Lincolnshire, England * Fleet (Kent), a term for a waterway in the Thames marshes, England * The Fleet (Tees), a section of the River Tees' original route Scotland * Water of Fleet, a river in Scotland *Fleet Bay, a part of a National Scenic Area within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland United States * Fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colón, Panama
Colón () is a city and Port#Seaport, seaport in Panama, beside the Caribbean Sea, lying near the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal. It is the capital of Panama's Colón Province and has traditionally been known as Panama's second city. Originally it was located entirely on Manzanillo Island, surrounded by Limon Bay, Panama, Limon Bay, Manzanillo Bay, and the Folks River, Panama, Folks River; however, since the disestablishment of the Panama Canal Zone, the city's limits have been redefined to include Fort Gulick, a former United States Army, U.S. Army base, as well as the former Panama Canal Zone towns of Cristóbal, Colón, Cristobal, Margarita, Panama, Margarita, and Coco Solo. History The city was founded in 1850 as the Atlantic terminal of the Panama Canal Railway, Panama Railroad, then underwent construction to meet the demand during the California Gold Rush for a fast route to California. For a number of years early in its history, the sizable United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airlines Established In 1932
An airline is a company that provides air transport services for traveling passengers or freight (cargo). Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for codeshare agreements, in which they both offer and operate the same flight. Generally, airline companies are recognized with an air operating certificate or license issued by a governmental aviation body. Airlines may be scheduled or charter operators. The first airline was the German airship company DELAG, founded on November 16, 1909. The four oldest non-airship airlines that still exist are the Netherlands' KLM (1919), Colombia's Avianca (1919), Australia's Qantas (1920) and the Russian Aeroflot (1923). Airline ownership has seen a shift from mostly personal ownership until the 1930s to government-ownership of major airlines from the 1940s to 1980s and back to large-scale privatization following the mid-1980s. Since the 1980s, there has been a trend of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Defunct Airlines Of The United States
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States. However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015). For reasons of size, this article is broken into four parts: * List of defunct airlines of the United States (A–C) * List of defunct airlines of the United States (D–I) * List of defunct airlines of the United States (J–P) * List of defunct airlines of the United States (Q–Z) See also *List of airlines of the United States * List of airports in the United States * List of defunct airlines of Guam * List of defunct airlines of Puerto Rico * List of defunct airlines of the United States Virgin Islands {{Airlines of the Americas * United States Airlines, defunct Airlines An airline is a compa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France Field
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olaya Herrera Airport
Olaya Herrera Airport () is an airport located in Medellín, Colombia, that serves regional and domestic flights. Additionally, the airport is used by general aviation and features several hangars for charters. It was formerly known as ''Medellin International Airport'' prior to the opening of José María Córdova International Airport in August 1985, which is located in the nearby municipality of Rionegro, east of Medellin. Between the two airports, there were more than 3.5 million passengers per year, which makes it the second busiest passenger city in Colombia after Bogotá. In 2016, the airport handled 831,181 passengers, and 848,525 in 2017. History Colombian businessman Gonzalo Mejía saw an opportunity for the development of an airport in Medellin, given that the mountainous topography surrounding the city made land transport to and from the area difficult, and that the nearest airport was in Puerto Berrio. He secured financing from wealthy businessmen, chose the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocumen Airport
Tocumen International Airport () is the primary international airport serving Panama City, the capital of Panama. The airport serves as the homebase for Copa Airlines and is a regional hub to and from the Caribbean, South America, South, North America, North and Central America and additionally features routes to some European cities as well as cargo flights to Qatar. History During World War II, Panamanian airports were leased exclusively by the United States Armed Forces, U.S. Armed Forces. The nearest airport to Tocumen was the ''Paitilla Point Airfield''. Several airports were built to protect the Panama Canal from foreign aggression. The 37th Training Wing, 37th Pursuit Group at Albrook Field replaced the P-40 Warhawks of the 28th Test Squadron, 28th Pursuit Squadron at the Paitilla Point airbase from 9 December 1941 though 26 March 1942 in the immediate aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack. Tocumen International Airport was inaugurated on June 1, 1947, by President Enriq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC-4
The Douglas DC-4 is an American four-engined (piston), propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. Military versions of the plane, the C-54 and R5D, served during World War II, in the Berlin Airlift and into the 1960s. From 1945, many civil airlines operated the DC-4 worldwide. Design and development Following proving flights by United Airlines of the DC-4E, it became obvious that the 52-seat airliner was too inefficient and unreliable to operate economically and the partner airlines, American Airlines, Eastern, Pan American, Trans World and United, recommended a lengthy list of changes to the design. Douglas took the new requirements and produced an entirely new, smaller design, the DC-4A, with a simpler, still unpressurized fuselage, Pratt & Whitney R-2000 Twin Wasp engines, and a single fin and rudder. A tricycle landing gear was retained. With the entry of the United States into World War II, in December 1941, the United States Army Air Forces t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas DC-3
The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company, which had a lasting effect on the airline industry in the 1930s to 1940s and World War II. It was developed as a larger, improved 14-bed sleeper version of the Douglas DC-2. It is a low-wing metal monoplane with conventional landing gear, powered by two radial piston engines of . Although the DC-3s originally built for civil service had the Wright R-1820 Cyclone, later civilian DC-3s used the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engine. The DC-3 has a cruising speed of , a capacity of 21 to 32 passengers or 6,000 lbs (2,700 kg) of cargo, and a range of , and can operate from short runways. The DC-3 had many exceptional qualities compared to previous aircraft. It was fast, had a good range, was more reliable, and carried passengers in greater comfort. Before World War II, it pioneered many air travel routes. It was able to cross the continental United States from Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turbo, Colombia
Turbo is a port city in Antioquia Department, Colombia. Part of the Urabá Antioquia sub-region, it is located on the coast of Gulf of Urabá, 340 km north of Medellín (the department capital and second largest city). This port city is the capital of the Urabá region of Antioquia. The place where Turbo is today was known as Pisisí, but by 1741 people were already talking about Turbo. By a decree on May 11, 1839, the central government spent one thousand pesos for military service barracks in Turbo. In 1840, the republican president assigned one thousand fanegas of uncultivated lands for the new population. It was established as a municipality in 1847. Turbo lies near the southeastern tip of the Darién Gap and is the northern terminus of the main route of the Pan-American Highway in South America. There is currently no paved road connecting through the region to Yaviza, Panama, where the highway continues through Central and North America. Geography Climate Turbo has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama City
Panama City, also known as Panama, is the capital and largest city of Panama. It has a total population of 1,086,990, with over 2,100,000 in its metropolitan area. The city is located at the Pacific Ocean, Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the Panamá Province, province of Panama. The city is the political and administrative center of the country, as well as a hub for banking and commerce. The city of Panama was founded on 15 August 1519, by Spanish conquistador Pedro Arias Dávila. The city was the starting point for expeditions that conquered the Inca Empire of Peru. It was a stopover point on one of the most important trade routes in the American continent, leading to the fairs of Nombre de Dios, Colón, Nombre de Dios and Portobelo, Colón, Portobelo, through which passed most of the gold and silver that Spain mined from the Americas. On 28 January 1671, Panamá Viejo, the original city was destroyed by a fire when the privateer Henry Morgan sacked and set fire to it. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balboa, Panama
Balboa is a district of Panama City, located at the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. It was the capital of the Panama Canal Zone under American administration. History The town of Balboa, founded by the United States during the construction of the Panama Canal, was named after Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish conquistador credited with discovering the Pacific Ocean. The name was suggested to the Panama Canal Zone authorities by the Peruvian ambassador to Panama. The hilly area north of Panama City was home to a few subsistence ranches and unused marshlands prior to being drained, filled, and leveled by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The town of Balboa, like most towns in the Canal Zone, was served by the Canal Zone Government–operated schools, post office, police and fire stations, commissary, cafeteria, movie theater, service center, bowling alley, other recreational facilities and company stores. There were several schools in the area, including Balb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
