Pennsylvania Central Airlines
Organization
Historical Note
Pennsylvania Airlines and Central Airlines merged to form Pennsylvania Central Airlines (PCA) on November 1, 1936. The airline offered domestic flights, primarily on the East Coast of the United States. In 1948, PCA rebranded to Capital Airlines, which merged into United Airlines in 1961.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 7, P-R)
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-7
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-2020s; Majority of material found within 1950s-1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Pennsylvania Central Airlines -- maintenance workers, women, undated
File — Box 33, Folder: 21-22
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
The Photographic Prints and Negatives series documents many aircraft, people and organizations affiliated with the Curtiss-Wright Company and its predecessor companies, spanning the early 1900s through 1960 with the bulk of items from the 1930s-1940s. While Series V. contains 14 photographic prints and Series VII. contains 263 prints and 1 negative, the bulk of visual imagery can be found in this series, with 3,502 photographic prints, 462 negatives, and 1 photomechanical print among these...
Dates:
undated
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