| LC control no. | n 81107860 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Alaska Airlines |
| Variant(s) | Alaska Air (Airline) Alaska Air Group. Alaska Airlines |
| See also | Hierarchical superior: Alaska Air Group Predecessor: Star Air Lines |
| Beginning date | 1944-05-02 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Seattle (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Aeronautics, Commercial |
| Special note | Not related to Alaska Airways. Absorbed "Alaska Air Lines, Inc." (formed in 1940) when Star Air Lines, which owned it, changed to Alaska Airlines. |
| Found in | Fish our Alaska [MP], 1975. Wikipedia, August 5, 2015 (Alaska Airlines is the seventh largest airline in the United States, based in Seattle, Washington. The airline was founded as McGee Airways in 1932, offering flights from Anchorage, Alaska; the name Alaska Airlines was adopted on May 2, 1944; Alaska Air; parent company: Alaska Air Group) Its website, August 5, 2015: home page (Alaska Airlines; © Alaska Air Group, Inc.) about Alaska > our history (The foundation of our success was laid in 1932 when Mac McGee started flying his three-seat Stinson between Anchorage and Bristol Bay, Alaska. A merger with Star Air Service in 1934 created the largest airline in Alaska. After several more mergers, the name was changed a couple of times--until they found one that stuck, Alaska Airlines) history by decade (Alaska Airlines was born in 1932 when Linious "Mac" McGee painted "McGee Airways" on the side of a three-passenger Stinson and started flying out of Anchorage. In 1934 McGee merged with Star Air Service; Business expanded in '37 with the purchase of Alaska Interior Airlines. Late that year, McGee sold Star to a group led by one of his former pilots, Don Goodman, who renamed the carrier Star Air Lines; Star bought three small Alaskan carriers in 1942, changed its name to Alaska Star Airlines and then to Alaska Airlines in 1944; Alaska Air Group was formed in '85 as a holding company for the airline and a year later acquired Horizon Air and Jet America Airlines) Rozzini, Kathy Mills, 1946- . The history of Alaska Airlines, 2021: page 269 (On September 16, 1943, Star Air Lines, flying under the name Alaska Star Airlines, changed its legal name to Alaska Airlines, Inc.; "Corporation shall be changed from Star Airlines, Inc. to Alaska Airlines, Inc.") page 270 (Seven months later on May 12, 1944, there is a second amendment to the articles of incorporation to change the name Star Airlines, Inc. to Alaska Airlines, Inc. This amendment is a correction because Star Airlines owned a second corporation "Alaska Air Lines, Inc." formed in 1940, which prevented the name change legally; thus, this second amendment actually combines Alaska Air Lines, Inc. and Star Airlines, Inc. to the new name.) page 295 (Mar. 1, 1932: Star Air Service; Legal partnership Steve Mills, Chief Pilot. Dec. 31, 1932: Incorporated: Steve Mills, President. Nov. 12, 1937: Star Air Lines.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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