At Lansing Airport in Michigan in the late spring of 1968 to offer a daily scheduled shuttle service to Detroit City Airport. Employing a Cessna 402, the company duly inaugurates revenue frequencies, but these can only be maintained over the summer.
MID AIRWAYS, S. A.: France (1994-1995). With shareholding divided between them 63% and 25%, respectively, J. Pierre Houdin and J. Pierre Moello establish MA at Maugulo in early September 1994. The pair recruits a workforce of 13 and lease 1 Fokker F.28-1000 with which to launch regional and holiday passenger charters on November 29.
Unable to achieve economic viability, the company folds within a year.
MID-ATLANTIC FREIGHT, INC.: P. O. Box 35408, Greensboro, North Carolina, 27425, United States; Phone (910) 668-7474; Fax (918) 668-3906; Http://www. atlantic-aero. com; Year Founded 1990; Code MDC; Year Founded 1990. Mid-Atlantic is founded by Don S. Goodwin at Greensboro, North Carolina, on January 1, 1990, to offer scheduled all-freight services throughout the eastern and central U. S. The company is an outgrowth of the charter division of Atlantic Aero, which has been successfully engaged in the overnight express business during the previous four years. Many contracts are signed with package express concerns and revenue operations commence on February 1.
In 1993, President Goodwin oversees a workforce of 45 and a fleet of 5 Cessna 208 Caravan Is, 19 C-208 Super Cargomasters, and 2 Dornier 228-202s. A private concern, Mid-Atlantic chooses not to reveal its annual traffic and financial statistics.
Five additional Caravan Is are ordered in 1987 and 10 more in early 1988. Operations continue apace during the remainder of the decade and into the 1990s. In 1993, President Goodwin oversees a workforce of 45 and operates a fleet that includes 5 Cessna 208As, 19 Cessna 208Bs, and 3 leased Dornier 228-202s, 2 of which are out of service. One Cessna 208A is withdrawn in 1994 and replaced by a 208B.
Operations continue apace in 1995-2000 and by the latter year the fleet includes 25 Cessna 208Bs.
MID COAST AIRWAYS: United States (1960-1968). Mid-Coast is established at Rockland, Maine, in February 1960 to provide on-demand air taxi flights to Boston. Piper PA-31-310 Navajo roundtrips are duly inaugurated and are maintained until May 1968, when company officials elect to inaugurate scheduled services. In June, Mid-Coast is renamed Downeast Airlines.
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