• Slick Airways was a cargo airline from the United States, that operated scheduled and chartered flights between 1946 and 1966. The airline was founded...
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  • nicknamed Slick Slick Airways, an American charter and scheduled freight airline Slick tire, used in motor racing Slick, Oklahoma, a US town Slick (tool)...
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    built. CL-44D4-6 Civil, commercial cargo aircraft originally built for Slick Airways, four built. CL-44D4-8 Civil aircraft for Icelandic Airlines Loftleidir...
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    World Airways ordered 12 of Lockheed's GL-207 Super Hercules to be delivered by 1962, to be powered by four 6,000 eshp Allison T56 turboprops. Slick Airways...
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    take off without receiving clearance to do so. On March 10, 1964, a Slick Airways DC-4 crashed 1.3 mi (2.1 km) southwest of Logan while on final approach...
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    February 1947: A Slick Airways C-46E (NC59486) crashed at Denver due to a loss of control, killing both pilots. 21 August 1947: A Slick Airways C-46E (NC59488)...
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    Airport kept Bradley Airport out of the top spot. On March 4, 1953, a Slick Airways Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando N4717N on a cargo flight from New York-Idlewild...
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    and 9 multi-engine airplanes, and 2 helicopters. On May 16, 1948, a Slick Airways Curtiss C-46 Commando crashed near CMH because of failure of the rudder...
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  • Seaboard World Airlines Slick Airways ♠ South Pacific Air Lines Trans World Airlines ♠ (launch operator) United States Airways Western Airlines Wien Air...
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    The Jeep was a public relations stunt and shortly after, was dropped. Slick Airways was the first airline to operate the freighter variant in April 1951...
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    1957, stored for several years, and then delivered to cargo carrier Slick Airways. It was restored in 1986 by the Save-a-Connie, Inc. organization, later...
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    longer range Boeing 707-320B. British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC, a predecessor of British Airways) arrived in 1957; in 1960 its Bristol Britannias...
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    provisional orders having been placed by both Flying Tiger Line and Slick Airways for four aircraft each. These were to be a stretched version, 37 feet...
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  • Cambodge Royal Air Cambodge  Canada Buffalo Airways Canadian Pacific Air Lines ♠ CP Air Maritime Central Airways ♠ Nordair Pacific Western Transair Wardair...
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    Two passengers out of the 41 on board died. On October 9, 1949, a Slick Airways Curtiss C-46 Commando, a cargo flight, crashed 2.5 miles NW of the airport...
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  • renamed to Airlift International. In 1968, Airlift expanded and acquired Slick Airways. The first flights were between Miami and Puerto Rico using Curtiss...
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  • Airline History. Retrieved 20 March 2020. "S.I. Airways". Airline History. Retrieved 20 March 2020. "S.S. Airways". Airline History. Retrieved 21 March 2020...
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  • Périllos, France, killing all 12 crew. February 3, 1963 L-1049H N9740Z Slick Airways Flight 40Z 4 Struck approach lights at San Francisco International Airport...
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    near Calverton, New York; killing six of eight on board. 10 March 1964 Slick Airways Flight 12, a DC-4 (N384), crashed while on approach to Boston Logan...
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  • while sustaining their enterprises. Seaboard & Western, Transocean, and Slick Airways notably aided the US Air Force in performing the Berlin Airlift in 1948–1949...
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    airliner to Slick Airways on June 20, 1956. On June 4, 1959, it was sold to Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, who leased it back to Slick Airways until June...
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  • four years. Lockheed had received orders from Pan American World Airways and Slick Airways for a total of 18 aircraft, but both orders were contingent on...
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  • Braniff Airways, Inc., operated as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965, and then Braniff International from 1965 until air operations ceased...
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  • later that year to Golden State Airlines. Leased on 1 July 1959 to Slick Airways, returned to Golden State in June 1960. Sold on 9 April 1962 to...
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  • Ned Lamont, as well as by alumni Harvey Kent and Earl F. Slick, the founder of Slick Airways. The cost of the establishment paid through donations was...
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    1958 Handley Page Hermes 4/A None Jammed elevator, loss of control Slick Airways Flight designation Location Date Aircraft type Route Cause NC59486 Denver...
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    South African Airways Flight 295 (SA295/SAA295) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan...
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  • with five tanks. The airline acquired Bahamas Airways in January 1949; along with British West Indian Airways, it was to be used as a feeder airline for...
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    auditioned for the role of Sawyer, who at the time was supposed to be a slick suit-wearing city con man. The producers enjoyed Monaghan's performance...
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    delivered to Piedmont Airlines in August 1986, and was acquired by USAir (US Airways) three years later in August 1989 when Piedmont and USAir merged. N485US...
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