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Arrow Air
Arrow Air was a passenger and cargo airline based in Building 712 on the grounds of Miami International Airport (MIA) in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The airline was started in 1981 as the latest in a series of aviation businesses controlled by George E. Batchelor, starting in 1946 with an earlier California-based airline Arrow Airways, an irregular air carrier shut down by the Federal government in 1951. Batchelor saw Arrow Air as a re-start of Arrow Airways, though they were separate corporations and separate certificates.
At different times over the years, Arrow Air operated over 90 weekly scheduled cargo flights, had a strong charter business and at one point operated scheduled international and domestic passenger flights. Its main base was Miami International Airport. Arrow Air ceased operations on June 29, 2010, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 1, 2010. It was then liquidated.
George E. Batchelor was a pilot for the Air Transport Command during World War II.. He founded Arrow Airways in Redondo Beach, California on the last day of 1946. Arrow Airways was an irregular air carrier, a hybrid charter/scheduled airline regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), a now-defunct Federal agency which tightly controlled almost all US commercial air transportation at the time. Arrow Airways was prominent among those irregular air carriers that (illegally, see below) offered transcontinental scheduled air service. It called its aircraft Arrowliners. In the 12 months ending June 1950, it had the sixth largest revenue passenger miles out of 49 irregular airlines. At the end of that period, Arrow owned a single Curtiss C-46, but it was known to have flown a Douglas DC-4 leased from California Eastern Airways during the same period. In addition, it's also known (see next paragraph) to have had two Douglas DC-3s during those twelve months.
In 1949, Batchelor established a second airline, California Arrow Airlines (CAA), as an intrastate airline and started flying Los Angeles-Oakland-Sacramento 23 May. In addition, CAA served Fresno for about a month starting in August. CAA had two DC-3s leased from Arrow Airways. CAA was one of eight intrastate airlines that started service that year in California, all failing quickly other than California Central Airlines and Pacific Southwest Airlines. In an article dated December 7, Batchelor was quoted saying that CAA was just about breaking even, that it was "it is hardly worthwhile operating." December 7 was to be CAA's last day of operation.
On December 7, CAA suffered a devastating DC-3 crash in which Batchelor's own wife and two-year old son died.
Meanwhile, the CAB had launched an investigation into Arrow Airways. On 16 January 1951, the CAB revoked Arrow's "Letter of Registration" (i.e. certificate) as of February 15, 1951 for illegal operation of scheduled service between New York and Los Angeles and New York and Oakland.
Arrow Airways was initially based at Torrance Municipal Airport (also known as Lomita Flight Strip), but at the end it, and California Arrow Airlines, were based at Burbank.
On May 26, 1981, Arrow Air relaunched as a charter airline under Miami's Batchelor Enterprises, whose aviation operations included fixed-base operator (FBO) Batch Air and International Air Leases, Inc., Arrow's parent company. (Batch Air eventually became owned by an employee group and was sold to Greenwich Air in 1987 for more than $30 million.) Arrow added scheduled passenger services in April 1982, beginning with California-Montego Bay.
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Arrow Air
Arrow Air was a passenger and cargo airline based in Building 712 on the grounds of Miami International Airport (MIA) in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The airline was started in 1981 as the latest in a series of aviation businesses controlled by George E. Batchelor, starting in 1946 with an earlier California-based airline Arrow Airways, an irregular air carrier shut down by the Federal government in 1951. Batchelor saw Arrow Air as a re-start of Arrow Airways, though they were separate corporations and separate certificates.
At different times over the years, Arrow Air operated over 90 weekly scheduled cargo flights, had a strong charter business and at one point operated scheduled international and domestic passenger flights. Its main base was Miami International Airport. Arrow Air ceased operations on June 29, 2010, and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on July 1, 2010. It was then liquidated.
George E. Batchelor was a pilot for the Air Transport Command during World War II.. He founded Arrow Airways in Redondo Beach, California on the last day of 1946. Arrow Airways was an irregular air carrier, a hybrid charter/scheduled airline regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), a now-defunct Federal agency which tightly controlled almost all US commercial air transportation at the time. Arrow Airways was prominent among those irregular air carriers that (illegally, see below) offered transcontinental scheduled air service. It called its aircraft Arrowliners. In the 12 months ending June 1950, it had the sixth largest revenue passenger miles out of 49 irregular airlines. At the end of that period, Arrow owned a single Curtiss C-46, but it was known to have flown a Douglas DC-4 leased from California Eastern Airways during the same period. In addition, it's also known (see next paragraph) to have had two Douglas DC-3s during those twelve months.
In 1949, Batchelor established a second airline, California Arrow Airlines (CAA), as an intrastate airline and started flying Los Angeles-Oakland-Sacramento 23 May. In addition, CAA served Fresno for about a month starting in August. CAA had two DC-3s leased from Arrow Airways. CAA was one of eight intrastate airlines that started service that year in California, all failing quickly other than California Central Airlines and Pacific Southwest Airlines. In an article dated December 7, Batchelor was quoted saying that CAA was just about breaking even, that it was "it is hardly worthwhile operating." December 7 was to be CAA's last day of operation.
On December 7, CAA suffered a devastating DC-3 crash in which Batchelor's own wife and two-year old son died.
Meanwhile, the CAB had launched an investigation into Arrow Airways. On 16 January 1951, the CAB revoked Arrow's "Letter of Registration" (i.e. certificate) as of February 15, 1951 for illegal operation of scheduled service between New York and Los Angeles and New York and Oakland.
Arrow Airways was initially based at Torrance Municipal Airport (also known as Lomita Flight Strip), but at the end it, and California Arrow Airlines, were based at Burbank.
On May 26, 1981, Arrow Air relaunched as a charter airline under Miami's Batchelor Enterprises, whose aviation operations included fixed-base operator (FBO) Batch Air and International Air Leases, Inc., Arrow's parent company. (Batch Air eventually became owned by an employee group and was sold to Greenwich Air in 1987 for more than $30 million.) Arrow added scheduled passenger services in April 1982, beginning with California-Montego Bay.