Challenger Airlines
| Founded | 31 December 1941 (incorporated as Summit Airways) |
|---|---|
| Commenced operations | 3 May 1947 |
| Ceased operations | 31 May 1950 |
| Fleet size | 4 |
| Parent company | Claude Neon |
| Headquarters | Laramie, Wyoming Salt Lake City, Utah Denver, Colorado United States |
| Key people | Charles W. Hirsig II (Founder) George W. Snyder Jr. (President) Donald A. Duff (President) |
| Employees | 200 |
Challenger Airlines was a local service carrier, a United States scheduled airline certificated to fly smaller routes by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now defunct US Federal agency that, at the time, tightly regulated almost all air transport. Challenger merged with two other local service carriers, Monarch Air Lines and Arizona Airways, in 1950 to form the first Frontier Airlines.