colgan air

9L ICAO

CJC Callsign

COLGAN Founded 1991 Hubs As US Airways Express:

LaGuardia Airport

Logan International Airport

As United Express:

Washington Dulles International Airport

As Continental Connection:

George Bush Intercontinental Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport Fleet size 56 Destinations 53 Parent company Pinnacle Airlines Corp. Headquarters Manassas, Virginia, U.S. Key people Buddy Casey (President)

Charles Colgan

(Founder / Former CEO) Website: http://www.colganair.com/

Colgan Air, Inc. is an American fully certificated regional airline subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines. The headquarters of Colgan Air are located at the grounds of the Manassas Regional Airport in Manassas, Virginia.

Colgan Air's major hubs are New York's LaGuardia Airport, Boston's Logan International Airport, Washington Dulles International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport, and Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport. It has been operating as US Airways Express since 1999 and now serves almost 50 cities in the Northeast and Texas as a feeder for US Airways Express, United Express, and Continental Connection. Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Destinations 2.1 As United Express 2.2 As US Airways Express 2.3 As Continental Connection 3 Fleet 4 Accidents and Incidents 5 References 6 External links //

History Saab 340B in Colgan Air livery

Charles J. Colgan founded [1] fixed base operator Colgan Airways Corporation at Manassas Airport in 1965. It began scheduled service under contract with IBM in 1970 between Manassas, Washington, D.C. and Poughkeepsie, New York. It expanded over the next decade and a half and was sold in 1986 to Presidential Airways.

After Presidential went defunct in 1991, Colgan and his son, Michael J., restarted the service under the name Colgan Air. It was established and started operations on December 1, 1991. On July 1, 1997 it became a feeder for Continental Airlines, operating under the name Continental Connection.

On December 11, 1999 Colgan left the Continental system and became exclusively a US Airways Express carrier, focusing its routes around major US Airways stations such as LaGuardia, Pittsburgh, and Boston. On January 25, 2005 it announced it would acquire additional Saab 340 aircraft and resume service as Continental Connection out of Houston.

On September 11, 2001 Mohamed Atta, and fellow hijacker, Abdulaziz al-Omari boarded Colgan Air Flight 4930, which was scheduled to depart at 06:00 from Portland, Maine and fly to Boston, Massachusetts. After the two hijackers arrived in Boston, they boarded American Airlines Flight 11 which they hijacked and crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center.

On October 4, 2005 Colgan Air started providing flights for United Express flights out of Washington's Dulles International Airport. Initially serving Charleston, WV, and Westchester County Airport in White Plains,