Challenger Airlines collection, 1947-1986 (bulk 1947-1965).

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Challenger Airlines collection, 1947-1986 (bulk 1947-1965).

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Collection includes copies of a copyrighted chronology for Challenger Airlines from 1941 to 1950 including an insert with a corporate chronology for Frontier Airlines, prospectus (1947), scrapbook of news clippings (1947-1949), time table (1948), employees directory (1948), Denver Post article covering the merger which created Frontier Airlines (1950), and Denver Post article highlighting the history of Frontier Airlines (1986).

0.5 cubic ft.

Wyoming, State Archives and Historical Department

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SNAC Resource ID: 8059085

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Challenger Airlines

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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...

Summit Airways Inc.

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