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- Varney Air Lines was an American airline company that started service on April 6, 1926, as an airmail carrier. Formed by Walter Varney, the airline was based in Boise, Idaho, United States. The airline is one of the predecessors of United Airlines.
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Aug 1, 2022 · In 1930 Varney Air Lines was bought by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, a consortium owned by Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Aircraft. With business booming, Varney upgraded the airline with new aircraft, including the dedicated Boeing 40 mail plane.
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Varney Air Lines was an American airline company that started service on April 6, 1926, as an airmail carrier. Formed by Walter Varney, the airline was based in Boise, Idaho, United States. [1] The airline is one of the predecessors of United Airlines. [2]
Apr 6, 2018 · Varney Air Lines officially began service with a history-making U.S. airmail flight that originated in the city of Pasco, Washington. “America’s most modern and rapid transportation of mail was brought to the northwest today,” reported that day’s edition of the Salt Lake Tribune.
Varney Air Lines started services on 06Apr1926 & ceased operations in May1934. Renamed to VARNEY AIR TRANSPORT – [UNITED AIR LINES was formed as a holding company for UNITED AIRCRAFT & TRANSPORT.
…company traced its history to Varney Airlines, incorporated by Walter T. Varney in 1934. Later it came under the control of Robert Forman Six (president 1938–82), who gave the airline the name Continental and, in the following decades, transformed the shoestring operation into one of the major American transportation companies,…
Varney Speed Lines (named after one of its initial owners, Walter T. Varney, who was also a founder of United Airlines) was formed in 1934, operating airmail and passenger services in the American Southwest over a route originating from El Paso and extending through Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Vegas, New Mexico, to Pueblo, Colorado.
Continental Airlines was founded as the Southwest Division of Varney Speed Lines (the other division of Varney Speed Lines was in California) to fly over the contract mail route from Pueblo to El Paso.
