Frontier Airlines records, 1940-2009.

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Frontier Airlines records, 1940-2009.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58801836

Includes correspondence, financial documents from Arizona Airways, Monarch, Challenger and Central Airlines; service route applications; speeches, memos, correspondence from Frontier Airline presidents; aircraft sale documents; annual reports; financial documents; correspondence; schedules; sales guides; timetables; aircraft maintenance manuals; telephone directories; employee newsletters; promotional material; research on the history of the airlines; first flight covers; postcards; audio cassettes; videotapes; scrapbooks; signs; banners; ephemera; deceased employees tribute list (2009); Stapleton International Airport Flight Guide (1993); Frontier Airlines chapter 11 disclosure statement (1988); photographs.

17.25 linear ft. (18 boxes), 5 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folios, 1 oversize file folders, 1 audio-visual box, 6 photo boxes, 15 photo envelopes.

Denver Public Library, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7771766

Denver Public Library, Central Library

Related Entities

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Ryan, Elizabeth A.

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Arizona Airways

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Monarch Airlines

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Central Airlines

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Challenger Airlines

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Mishkin, Marilyn.

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Schultz, Kenneth A.

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Frontier Airlines

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The merger of Monarch, Challenger, and Arizona Airways created Frontier Airlines, which began serving the public on June 1, 1950. The new airline succeeded because it serviced a part of the country that had been ignored by the rest of the airline industry. In 1965, Frontier announced it would build a five million dollar hangar and office building complex at Stapleton International Airfield in Denver, Colorado, its base of operations. During the 1980s Frontier began to lose money and finally file...