Bonanza Air Lines
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Unknown Unknown 1100.2022.0801.jpg Days Past Collection Color 1100-2022-0801 1100.2022.0801 Print 5x7 Media c. 1961 Reproduction rights are not available. Owned by another institution.Description
A Bonanza Air Lines F-27A aircraft parked at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
Bonanza Air Lines grew as an air passenger service beginning in 1949, when the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) authorized a new interstate route between Reno, Nevada and Phoenix, Arizona for the company. CAB gave the Las Vegas-based Bonanza a three-year temporary certificate to operate this route which stopped in several cities, including Las Vegas, Nevada, and Prescott. On December 16, 1949, Bonanza’s initial flight landed in Prescott. Regular flights began on December 19, 1949 between Reno and Phoenix, which included stops in Carson City, Hawthorne, Tonopah, Las Vegas, Boulder City in Nevada and Kingman and Prescott in Arizona.
In February 1952, CAB authorized additional routes to Bonanza as the airline continued to expand. They served Palm Springs, Ontario and Riverside, California, and in 1958, Salt Lake City, Utah was added. The Phoenix to Salt Lake City route was the longest non-stop commercial DC-3 flight in the continental US, at that time 3 hours and 20 minutes.
Image Courtesy of Ted Miley.
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