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Other articles where Walter T. Varney is discussed: Continental Airlines, Inc.: …to Varney Airlines, incorporated by Walter T. Varney in 1934. 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 ...
Varney Air Lines was an American airline company that started service on April 6, 1926, as an airmail carrier. Formed by Walter Varney , the airline was based in Boise, Idaho , United States. [1] The airline is one of the predecessors of United Airlines .
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Jan. 27 (AP) Walter T. Varney, founder of Varney Air Lines, a predecessor of United Air Lines, died Wednesday. He was 79 years old. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...
Jul 12, 2014 · Walter Thomas Varney Founder of United Airlines, Inc. was born in San Francisco, California on 26 th December, 1888. He was an American pilot. He was an American pilot. In aviation field of America he is remembered as the founded of two airlines of the United States of America.
Aug 1, 2022 · The first civilian Post Office contracted flight took place on April 6, 1926, piloted by Varney Air Lines chief pilot Leon D. Cuddeback. With between 4,000 and 6,000 people attending, Cuddeback took off from Pascoe early morning in a Curtiss-powered Laird Swallow biplane loaded with 207 pounds of mail. Piloted by Franklin Rose, the first ...
Walter Thomas Varney (age 79) was born Dec. 26, 1888 in San Francisco, the son of Thomas and Ella Varney. Mr. Varney and his late wife, Aileen, who died in 1963, lived in San Francisco until 1957. He was a World War I Army Aviator. After the war he operated a flying school in San Mateo and an air express ferry service...
Aug 28, 2023 · United Airlines can trace its origins to 1926 when Walter Varney founded Varney Air Lines in Boise, Idaho. Looking to modernize the county's postal service, the Postmaster General was told to give lucrative mail contracts to private airlines. Varney Air Lines was the only bidder winning the contract to deliver mail in the upper Northwest states.
