Universal Airlines (United States)
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| Commenced operations | 29 December 1966 name change from Zantop Air Transport | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 4 May 1972 | ||||||
| Operating bases | Willow Run Airport Oakland International Airport | ||||||
| Fleet size | see Fleet below | ||||||
| Key people | Lamar Muse Glenn L. Hickerson | ||||||
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(1) IATA, ICAO codes were the same until the 1980s | |||||||
Universal Airlines was a United States supplemental air carrier that operated from 1966 to 1972, based initially at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, Michigan and later at Oakland International Airport in California. Universal was a re-naming of Zantop Air Transport. At the time, "supplemental" was the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) term for a charter airline, the CAB being the Federal agency that tightly regulated US carriers in that era.
A Houston-based commuter air carrier also used the Universal name during the late 1970s operating scheduled passenger service in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.