Mid-Continent Airlines
Mid-Continent Airlines was an airline which operated in the central United States from the 1930s until 1952 when it was acquired by and merged with Braniff International Airways. Mid-Continent Airlines was originally founded as a flight school at Rickenbacker Airport in Sioux City, Iowa, during 1928, by Arthur Hanford Jr., a dairy operator. The Hanford Produce Company was the largest creamery in the United States with over 100 trucks in operation. The company was primarily a dairy but also sold ice cream and poultry. The Hanford's also founded and built the new Rickenbacker Airport and operated eight gas stations and several service repair garages under the name Hanford's, Inc. The airport was a division of Hanford's, Inc., but the service stations and garages were later sold to finance airline operations. Mid-Continent was based in Kansas City, Missouri at the time of its acquisition by Braniff.
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Braniff International Airways
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Q41819
Kansas City, Missouri
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Q6840683
Mid-Continent Airlines
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Q6840683
Mid-Continent Airlines
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1930-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1930
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1952-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1952
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1928-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1928
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inception