Tennessee Airways

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Tennessee Airways
Tennessee Airways Logo, April 1981.png
IATA ICAO Callsign
ZNTENTennessee
Founded1978
Ceased operations1990
Hubs McGhee Tyson Airport
HeadquartersKnoxville, 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]

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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]

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Those airports marked with an asterisk (*) no longer have commercial airline service.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 "Tennessee Airways". AirTimes: A Collector's Guide to Airline Timetables. Retrieved 2007-09-30.
  2. https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PakrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IP0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4871%2C5622300