Aviation Corporation (American Airlines Predecessor)
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Over 75 years old
Common stock
December 2, 1946
Issued, canceled
Columbian Bank Note Company
Machine printed signatures
11 3/4" (w) by 7 3/4" (h)
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Historical Context
American Airlines was founded as a domestic airline after the Aviation Corporation, a New York City-based holding company, was organized in 1929 and began to acquire young aviation firms along with bus lines, radio stations, and airport construction companies.
Among the firm's initial acquisitions were some eighty-five small airlines, including Colonial Airways, the Embry-Riddle Company, Interstate Air Lines, Southern Air Transport, Universal Air Lines System, and one of Universal's holdings, Robertson Aircraft of Missouri, for which Charles A. Lindbergh had once served as chief pilot.
The consolidation gave the new company a system of partially interconnected routes, a fleet of various types of airplanes, and a variety of local managements. In 1930 routes were redrawn, managements reorganized, and the pieces incorporated to form American Airways.
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