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Founded | 1978 | ||||||
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Ceased operations | 1990 | ||||||
Hubs | McGhee Tyson Airport | ||||||
Headquarters | Knoxville, TN |
Tennessee Airways was an airline that was conceived as a regional airline to provide service to cities throughout the Southeastern United States. The airline was in service between 1978 and 1987 and was based out of Knoxville, Tennessee. [1]
Stuart Adcock was [resident and major shareholder. He was somewhat of a hands-on executive, sometimes flying the planes and cleaning them after flights. [2]
Those airports marked with an asterisk (*) no longer have commercial airline service.
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