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Air Pennsylvania was a commuter airline active from 1976 to 1982 and based in Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading is a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, and seat of Berks County. Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88,082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie,...

. It was owned was Eugene F. Plum II, whose family also operated a flight school and other airlines - Perkiomen Airways (based in Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading, Pennsylvania
Reading is a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, and seat of Berks County. Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88,082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie,...

 and Sun International Airways (based in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

).

Fleet

  • Piper Trainers
  • Piper Arrows
  • Cessna 152s & 172, 182s
  • Piper Apaches
  • Beech BE18s
  • Piper Navajos
  • Britten Norman Islanders
  • DC3 (N2VM)
  • Convair CV-240
  • Fairchild Hiller FH-227


http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1975/1975%20-%200312.html
Perkiomen Airways provides scheduled
airmail services in Pennsylvania under
contract to the US Post Office. A Beech
99 is used over the route Bradford-Du-
Bois-Phillipsburg-Pittsburgh - Harrisburg.
The airline also undertakes air-taxi and
charter services with Piper aircraft
from its base at General Carl A. Spaatz
Field, Reading.
Head Office: PO Box 3634, Reading, Pennsylvania
19605, USA.
9 215-376-6113.
Chief Executive: Eugene F. Plum II,
president.
Fleet: One Beech 99, one Piper Twin
Comanche, three Piper Aztec.

Former Destinations

  • New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

    • Atlantic City
      Atlantic City, New Jersey
      Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, and a nationally renowned resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. The city also served as the inspiration for the American version of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island on the coast...

       (Atlantic City International Airport
      Atlantic City International Airport
      Atlantic City International Airport is a joint civil-military public airport located nine nautical miles northwest of the central business district of Atlantic City, in Atlantic County, New Jersey...

      )
  • Pennsylvania
    Pennsylvania
    The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

    • Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton
      Allentown, Pennsylvania
      Allentown is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is Pennsylvania's third most populous city, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and the 215th largest city in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 118,032 and is currently...

       (Lehigh Valley International Airport
      Lehigh Valley International Airport
      Lehigh Valley International Airport , formerly Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton International Airport, is a public airport in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania....

      )
    • Hazleton
      Hazleton, Pennsylvania
      Hazleton is a city in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 25,340 at the 2010 census, an increase of 8.6% from the 2000 census count .-Greater Hazleton:...

       (Hazleton Municipal Airport
      Hazleton Municipal Airport
      Hazleton Municipal Airport is a public use airport in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is owned by the City of Hazleton and located two nautical miles northwest of its central business district....

      )*
    • Philadelphia
      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
      Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

       (Philadelphia International Airport
      Philadelphia International Airport
      Philadelphia International Airport is a major airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, and is the largest airport in the Delaware Valley region and in Pennsylvania...

      )
    • Reading
      Reading, Pennsylvania
      Reading is a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, and seat of Berks County. Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88,082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie,...

       (Reading Regional Airport
      Reading Regional Airport
      Reading Regional Airport , also known as Carl A. Spaatz Field, is a public airport located three miles northwest of the central business district of Reading, a city in Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States...

      )*
    • Cumberland Regional Airport (Cumberland, Maryland
      Cumberland, Maryland
      Cumberland is a city in the far western, Appalachian portion of Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Allegany County, and the primary city of the Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 20,859, and the metropolitan area had a...

      )*
    • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
      Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...

      (Greater Pittsburgh International Airport)**

Those airports marked with an asterisk (*) are no longer served by commercial air service.\
Greater Pittsburgh International Airport was replaced by Pittsburgh International Airport
Pittsburgh International Airport
Pittsburgh International Airport , formerly Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Greater Pittsburgh International Airport and commonly referred to as Pittsburgh International, is a joint civil–military international airport located in the Pittsburgh suburb of Findlay Township, approximately west of...

, which is commercially serviced.
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