TAG Airlines was a small airline serving primarily Downtown Cleveland, Ohio with Downtown Detroit,

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from 1957 until 1970.

History

It was founded by William Knight in Cleveland, Ohio as Taxi Air Group in , was then sold to Ross Miller, merged with Illini Airlines in 1957 and definitely renamed. Its slogan was "The World's Busiest Airline", and it served airports that were 5–15 minutes from the downtown areas, mainly in

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, and Cleveland, Ohio. The business closed not long after one of its

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s crashed into frozen

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in , killing all nine people aboard. The cause of the crash was found to be a fatigue crack in a fitting in the wing root resulting in failure of the right wing."Searchers continue hunt for 9 victims, Lake Erie plane crash"
''Lima Daily News'' (January 29, 1970). Retrieved 2018-07-09. Tag started operations with single pilot Piper Aztec aircraft in 1964 to Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and Huntington WV.

Destinations

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* Cleveland, Ohio (Burke Lakefront Airport) * Columbus, Ohio *

(

Detroit City Airport Coleman A. Young International Airport (Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport, formerly Detroit City Airport until 2003) is six miles northeast of downtown Detroit, in Wayne County, Michigan. It is owned by the City of Detroit. The Federal Aviation ...

) *

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Akron, Ohio Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 Census, the city prop ...

Chicago, Illinois (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

(Meigs Field)Tag Airlines timetable May 1, 1961

References

{{US-airline-stub Defunct airlines of the United States Airlines established in 1957 Airlines disestablished in 1970

History

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