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World's first airline : the St. Petersburg-Tampa airboat line, TheEntry/Object ID
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106 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
World's first airline : the St. Petersburg-Tampa airboat line, The by Gay Blair White.
Author inscribed to JHS 2/3/1984. Warren Brown, the editor, autographed Jan/ 13, 1984.
The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line (SPT Airboat Line) was the first scheduled airline using a winged aircraft. The airline provided service between St. Petersburg, Florida and neighboring Tampa across Tampa Bay a distance of about 23 miles. It was in service from January to May 1914.
The airline was the brainchild of Percival E. Fansler, a Jacksonville-based electrical engineer. Fansler enlisted the support of Thomas Benoist, an early airplane manufacturer who provided the planes-or, more precisely, the airboats. The airboat was known as Benoist Airboat Model XIV, no. 43
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St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line -- History., Aeronautics, Commercial -- United States -- History., Airlines -- United States -- History.Publication Details
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White, Gay Blair, Brown, Warren J. 1924-Edition
2nd ed.Publisher
Aero Medical ConsultantsPlace Published
* Untyped Place Published
Largo, Fla.Call No.
HE 9803 .S8 W45 1984ISBN
0912522747LCCN
87118037