Modern Air Transport (Airline)
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1946 - 1975
Historical Note
Established in 1946 Modern Air Transport, Inc., often seen as Modern Air, was a United States-based charter and supplemental air carrier. At different stages in its history its operations were based in Newark and Trenton, New Jersey; Baltimore, Maryland; and Miami, Florida. In 1968 the airline established an overseas base at Berlin Tegel Airport in what used to be West Berlin prior to German reunification. Between 1968 and 1974, operations increasingly focused on Berlin Tegel. The airline ceased operations in 1975 due to financial difficulties.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 3, G-M)
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-3
Abstract
The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.
Dates:
circa 1910s-2010s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Alfred Goldberg Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2007-06-11
Contents of the Collection
The Alfred Goldberg Photograph Collection contains photographs and a small number of textual materials that mostly pertain to aircraft construction and maintenance in the 1940s-1950s. It is likely the photographs were collected by Goldberg during his career at Bedek Aviation Company in an unknown position and as Superintendent of Maintenance at Flying Tiger Line. The collection has been broken down into two series: Photographs and Textual materials, which are both arranged alphabetically....
Dates:
1929-1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1940-1959
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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