Bluegrass Airlines, November 2008

 

Southern Airways January 1955

 

 

DC-3 at Natchez, MS

 

On June 10th, 1949, Southern Airways first scheduled flight a DC-3 departed Atlanta GA for Memphis TN with intermediate stops at Gadsen, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa AL and Columbus MS.

 

Eventually Southern owned 30 DC-3 variants .  Twenty six Martin 4-0-4’s were added to the fleet beginning in 1961.   In 1967 they retired the DC-3’s and took delivery of their first DC-9 jet.  

 

Southern Airways merged with North Central Airlines in 1979 and formed Republic Airlines Inc. In 1980 Republic acquired Hughes Airwest making the airline a  national carrier.

 

In 1986 Republic was acquired by North West.

 

For this months feature we will use the January 1955 schedule. 

 

 

 

 

Flight Simulator Resources.

 

FS2004 1959 Louisiana-Mississippi-Memphis-Little Rock Scenery by  Mike Stevens.  Download from Tom Gibson’s  California Classics web-site  http://www.calclassic.com/scenery.htm

 

FS 2004 Southern Airways Repaint by Gary Harper.  For the default FS 2004 DC-3  At http://www.avsim.com search for file name sou_dc-3.zip 

 

Flight 352

From

Time

 

Hdg

Distance

Navaid

Freq.

Radial

Distance

New Orleans LA

10:30

KMSY

 

 

 

 

 

 

Baton Rouge LA

11:05

KBTR

302º

56 nm

BTR

116.50

69º

8 nm

Natchez MS

11:39

KHEZ

350º

65 nm

HEZ

110.00

On

Field

Monroe

12:17

KMLU

322º

66 nm

MLU

117.20

On

Field

Greenville MS

12:55

KGLH

39º

79 nm

GLH

110.20

176º

3 nm

Memphis TN

13:45

KMEM

26º

47 nm

MEM

117.50

On

Field

 

 

Flight 102

From

Time

 

Hdg

Distance

Navaid

Freq.

Radial

Distance

Memphis TN CT

07:30

KMEM

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tupelo MS

08:11

KTUP

127º

77 nm

TUP

109.80

29º

3nm

Columbus MS

08:41

KUBS

157º

52 nm

UBS

245.0

On

Field

Tuscaloosa AL

09:08

KTCL

110º

41 nm

TCL

117.80

238º

4 nm

Birmingham

09:38

KBHM

64º

48 nm

VUZ

114.40

131º

10 nm

Gadsen AL CT

10:02

KGAD

54º

41 nm

GAD

112.30

On

Field

Atlanta GA ET

11:42

KATL

105º

85 nm

ATL

116.90

On

Field

 

 

Flight 115

From

Time

 

Hdg

Distance

Navaid

Freq.

Radial

Distance

Charlotte NC

11:50

KCLT

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spartanburg SC

12:22

KSPA

255º

53 nm

TUP

248.0

64º

5nm

Greenville

12:39

KGMU

263º

20 nm

GM

521.0

4 nm

Greenwood SC

13:04

KGRD

169º

37 nm

GRD

115.50

On

Field

Athens GA

13:39

KAHN

256º

61 nm

AHN

109.60

On

Field

Atlanta GA

14:10

KATL

254º

58 nm

ATL

116.90

On

Field

 

 

Flight 205

From

Time

 

Hdg

Distance

Navaid

Freq.

Radial

Distance

Atlanta GA

14:40

KATL

  

 

 

 

 

 

Columbus

15:25

KCSG

202º

72 nm

CSG

117.10

148º

7 nm

Albany

16:04

KABY

149º

70 nm

PZD

116.10

147°

9 nm

Moultrie

16:28

KMGR

145º

34 nm

MGR

108.80

On

Field

Valdosta GA

16:49

KVLD

126º

33 nm

OTK

114.80

On

Field

Jacksonville FL

17:30

KJAX

105º

84 nm

TAY

JA

112.91

344.0

94º

76º

45 nm

6 nm

 

 

Flight 432

From

Time

 

Hdg

Distance

Navaid

Freq.

Radial

Distance

Mobile AL

08:15

KMOB

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gulfport-Biloxi MS

08:45

KGPT

247º

46 nm

GPT

109.00

On

Field

Laurel

09:24

KLUL

354º

76 nm

LBY

THJ

110.60

346.0

27º

133º

17nm

1 nm

Jackson

10:01

10:20

KHKS

305º

67 nm

JAN

112.60

193º

11 nm

Vicksburg

10:45

KVKS

258º

36 nm

VKS

382.0

On

Field

Greenville MS

11:22

KGLH

355º

75 nm

GLH

110.20

176º

3 nm

Memphis TN

12:12

KMEM

26º

47 nm

MEM

117.50

On

Field