Colonial Air Transport

Colonial Air Transport was founded in 1926 in New York City by Juan Trippe. Flew U.S. airmail commercial route CAM-1, with the first flight on 01Jul1926 & its the first passenger service on 04Apr1927. Became part of COLONIAL AIRWAYS CORPORATION, along with COLONIAL WESTERN AIRLINES and COLONIAL AIR TRANSPORT. This was renamed to COLONIAL AIRWAYS
– [AMERICAN AIRWAYS was created by the merger of UNIVERSAL AIR LINE SYSTEMS, COLONIAL AIRWAYS, SOUTHERN AIR TRANSPORT, EMBRY-RIDDLE CORPORATION CORPORATION and INTERSTATE AIRLINES . Acquired SAFE (1921), MARTZ AIR LINES (1932), TRANSAMERICAN AIRLINES (1932), CENTURY PACIFIC AIRLINES (1932) & STANDARD AIRLINES (1934). Renamed to AMERICAN AIRLINES]
– [AMERICAN AIRLINES was formed as AMERICAN AIRWAYS in 1930. AA acquired AMERICAN EXPORT AIRLINES in 1945, TRANS CARIBBEAN AIRWAYS in 1971, AIR CAL in 1986, RENO AIR in 2000 and TWA in 2001].