Piedmont Nose Art
by John Schneider
Title
Piedmont Nose Art
Artist
John Schneider
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
File# 0939 The nose of a Piedmont Airlines Douglas DC-3 Civil Aircraft as displayed in 2015 at the Carolina Aviation Museum, Charlotte/Douglas Airport USA.Piedmont Airlines was a major airline in the United States which operated from 1948 until it was acquired by and merged into USAir in 1989.
The company that would become Piedmont Airlines was founded by Thomas Henry Davis (1918 - April 22, 1999) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1940, when Davis Purchased Camel City Flying Service and changed the name to Piedmont Aviation. In 1944, Davis filed an application to run a passenger flight service in the southeast. After several years of lobbting government agencies and fighting legal challenges from other airlines. Piedmont received authorization on January 1, 1948.
As with most airlines before deregulation, Piedmont did not have hubs.
Its early routes stretched from Wilmington, North Carolina, northwest to Cincinnati, Ohio, with numerous intermediate stops, but you remained on the aircraft till your destination. Early routes were operated with Douglas DC-3 aircraft.
Like other Local Service airlines, Piedmont was subsidized; in 1962, its operating "revenues" of $18.2 million included $4.8 million "Pub. serv. rev."... Those of us who are uninformed used to refer to this as a postal subsidy.
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