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Stout Air Services was an
airline An airline is a company that provides civil aviation, air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines use aircraft to supply these services and may form partnerships or Airline alliance, alliances with other airlines for ...
based in the
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. Stout Air Services was the first regularly scheduled passenger airline in America.


History

Stout Air Services was founded by the engineer and businessman,
William Bushnell Stout William Bushnell Stout (March 16, 1880 – March 20, 1956) was a pioneering American inventor, engineer, developer and designer whose works in the automotive and aviation fields were groundbreaking. Known by the nickname "Bill", Stout designed an ...
. Stout operated in close conjunction with his aircraft production company, Stout Metal Airplane company. Stout operated from
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under the name Detroit-Grand Rapids Airline with round trip fares of $35 in 1926. An airline of firsts, Stout was the first to hire male flight attendants, and the
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became the first airline ticket office by selling Stout Air Services tickets. With expanded services, Stout operated aircraft as Detroit-Cleveland Airline. In 1928 Stout Air Services purchased airmail routes from
Ford Air Transport Service Ford Air Transport Service is a defunct airline based in United States of America. The airline was also registered as Ford Air Freight Lines. History Ford in 1925 initiated Ford Air Transport Service - the world's first regularly scheduled comme ...
. On April 29, 1929, Stout Air Services was purchased by
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(UATC). It continued to operate under the Stout name as a separate division. In June 1930, the Universal Air Lines hangar caught fire destroying 27 aircraft, leaving only five. The fire spread to the neighboring Grey Goose Air Lines hangar that housed aircraft leased to Stout Air Lines. On September 12, 1930,
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(NAT), itself a newly acquired division of UATC, purchased the Stout division. In 1931, NAT in turn became part of the newly formed
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.


Destinations

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Fleet

The Stout Air Services fleet consists of the following aircraft as of 1928:


Incidents and accidents

Stout Air Service flew over 200,000 miles without an accident or incident.


See also

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References

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