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Walter Thomas Varney (December 26, 1888 – January 25, 1967) was an American aviation pioneer who founded forerunners of two major U.S. airlines, United Airlines and Continental Airlines, which combined under United Continental Holdings long after his death.
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6. Apr. 2018 · Walter T. Varney, a pilot in the aviation section of the U.S. Signal Corps during World War I, had won an airmail contract in the fall of the previous year. This contract was one of the first to be awarded to a private airline by the U.S. Post Office Department for designated mail-delivery routes.
23. Jan. 2021 · Walter Thomas Varney was an aviation pioneer and founded what later became Continental Airlines. Walter Thomas Varney served as a pilot in the Aviation Section of the US Signal Corps during the First World War.
Later it came under the control of Robert Forman Six (president 1938–82), who gave the airline the name Continental and, in the following decades, transformed the shoestring operation into one of the major American transportation companies, headquartered first in Denver….
- The First Mail Flight Was Between Pascoe, Washington, and Elko, Nevada
- Aircraft Manufacturers Wanted A Piece of The Action
- Continental Airlines Is Created
The first flight under the USPOD contract was between Pascoe, Washington, and Elko, Nevada, with a stop in Boise. At the time, Pascoe served as the main rail depot because of its location midway between Seattle, Spokane, and Portland. Mail trains leaving the Washington and Oregon cities would arrive in Pascoe early in the morning. Aircraft would th...
With mail contracts proving so lucrative, aircraft manufacturers wanted a slice of the pie. In 1930 Varney Air Lines was bought by the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation, a consortium owned by Boeing and Pratt & WhitneyAircraft. With business booming, Varney upgraded the airline with new aircraft, including the dedicated Boeing 40 mail plane...
The same year the Roosevelt administration canceled all mail contracts, which presented an opportunity for air school operator Robert F. Six to buy a share of Varney Air Lines. After taking complete control of the airline in 1936, Six changed the name to Continental Air Lines (later Continental Airlines) to reflect his ambition of having flights to...
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29. März 2023 · While United Airlines' history began in 1931, the airline can trace its roots back to 1926 when Walter T. Varney started a mail service between Pasco, Washington, Boise, Idaho, and Elco, Nevada.
Walter T. Varney has been selected for his role in the development of commercial air mail service to Nevada. In 1918, the first scheduled airmail flight took off from Washington, D.C. to New York. The plane was piloted by a young Army Air Service pilot who promptly got lost and flipped the aircraft during landing.
