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Colgan Air
Colgan Air, Inc. is a regional airline headquartered in Manassas, Virginia with major bases at LaGuardia Airport in New York City and Pittsburgh International Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Operating as U.S. Airways Express since 1999, it serves some 35 cities as a feeder for US Airways.
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History
Charles J. Colgan founded fixed base operator Colgan Airways Corporation at Manassas Airport in 1965. It began scheduled service under contract with IBM in 1970 between Manassas, Washington, DC (Dulles International Airport), and Poughkeepsie, New York. It expanded over the next decade and a half and was sold in 1986 to Presidential Airlines.
After Presidential went defunct in 1991, Colgan and his son, Michael J., restarted the service under the name Colgan Air. On July 1, 1997 it became a feeder for Continental Airlines, operating under the name Continental Connection.
On December 11, 1999 Colgan left the Continental system and became exclusively a US Airways Express carrier, focusing its routes around major US Airways stations such as LaGuardia, Pittsburgh, and Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts. On January 25, 2005 it announced it would acquire additional Saab 340 aircraft and resume service as Continental Connection, out of George Bush Intercontinental Airport near Houston, Texas.
Fleet
Colgan Air is an all-turboprop airline. It operates the following aircraft:
- Saab 340B, a 34-passenger twin-engine turboprop
- Beechcraft 1900 C and D, a 19-passenger twin-engine turboprop
Destinations
Colgan Air serves the following destinations, mostly in the Norhteastern United States:
- Augusta, Maine (Augusta Airport)
- Bar Harbor, Maine
- Portland, Maine (Portland International Jetport)
- Presque Isle, Maine
- Rockland, Maine
- Boston, Massachusetts (Logan International Airport)
- Hyannis, Massachusetts
- Nantucket, Massachusetts
- Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts
- Albany, New York (Albany International Airport)
- Buffalo, New York (Buffalo Niagara International Airport)
- Islip, New York (Macarthur Airport)
- Ithaca, New York (Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport)
- Jamestown, New York (Chautauqua County-Jamestown Airport )
- New York City (LaGuardia Airport)
- Rochester, New York (Greater Rochester International Airport)
- Syracuse, New York (Syracuse Hancock International Airport)
- White Plains, New York (Westchester County Airport)
- Altoona, Pennsylvania
- Bradford, Pennsylvania
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh International Airport)
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Norfolk, Virginia (Norfolk International Airport)
- Manassas, Virginia
- Weyers Cave, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia (Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport )
- Washington, DC (Dulles International Airport
- Washington, DC (Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport
IATA Code
Colgan's IATA airline designator code is 9L.
ICAO Code
Colgan's ICAO airline designator code is CJC
External links
- Colgan Air official website
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