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    Slick Airways was one of the first scheduled cargo airlines in the United States, awarded a certificate for scheduled cargo service in the same proceeding...
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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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  • consciousness research. Tom assisted his brother, Earl F. Slick, in founding Slick Airways, one of the first US scheduled freight airlines. In 1955 he...
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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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    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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    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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  • and cryptozoologist. Earl F. Slick founded Slick Airways, one of the first US scheduled freight airlines. Thomas Baker Slick Sr. died of a stroke in Baltimore...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded Flying Tiger Line (along with Slick Airways) a scheduled cargo certificate for a transcontinental route from Los...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    American World Airways Reeve Aleutian Airways Resort Airlines Riddle Airlines Shamrock Airlines Seaboard World Airlines Slick Airways Tatonduk Outfitters...
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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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  • proceedings that awarded certificates to Flying Tiger Line and Slick Airways. Flying Tiger and Slick were given transcontinental freight routes, U. S. Airlines...
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    defunct Slick Airways to ensure continuity of charter operations for the military. In 1968, Airlift acquired the scheduled route authority of Slick. The...
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  • test the concept of helicopter assault by ground forces. February 3 – Slick Airways Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation N9740Z on a ferry flight with a...
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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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  • 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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  • Network. Retrieved on 8 January 2013. Aircraft Accident Report: Standard Airways, Inc., Lockheed Constellation, L-1049G, N 189S, Manhattan Municipal Airport...
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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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    other scheduled cargo carrier's revenues, in some cases much more: Slick Airways had no scheduled cargo revenue that period, almost 100% of its revenue...
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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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  • 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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