Mackey Airlines, also known as Mackey International Airlines, was an airline which mainly served Florida

Florida

Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

 and The Bahamas

The Bahamas

The Bahamas , officially the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, is a nation consisting of 29 islands, 661 cays, and 2,387 islets . It is located in the Atlantic Ocean north of Cuba and Hispaniola , northwest of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and southeast of the United States...

. Flights flew primarily out of West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale and Miami to a number of islands in the Bahamas and to Turks and Caicos.

Mackey Airlines was founded by former stunt pilot and United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

 Colonel Joseph C. Mackey on September 30, 1946. The airline was bought out by Eastern Airlines in 1967. "Colonel Joe" soon began a new company, Mackey International Airlines. In 1977, Mackey's headquarters in Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 165,521. It is a principal city of the South Florida metropolitan area, which was home to 5,564,635 people at the 2010...

, Florida was the target of a bombing attributed to Cuban anti-Castro activity in the United States. Mackey International Airlines ceased operations in 1981.

Fleet

• Beechcraft Model 99
  Beechcraft Model 99
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• Convair 440
• Convair 580
• Douglas DC-6
  Douglas DC-6
  The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and transport aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, it was reworked after the war to compete with the Lockheed Constellation in the long-range...
  
  
• Douglas DC-8
  Douglas DC-8
  The Douglas DC-8 is a four-engined narrow-body passenger commercial jet airliner, manufactured from 1958 to 1972 by the Douglas Aircraft Company...
  
  

DeHaviland DHC-6 Twin Otter

External links

• Mackey Airlines Page
• La Floridiana - Florida’s Commuter Airlines from the 1960s to the 1980s: Part Three
• Sunshine Skies - Mackey International, featuring vintage photos