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Founded as a ticketing agency to circumvent C.A.B. 8/3 rule that restricted Large Irregular airlines to 8 or 3 flights per month on the same sector. North American sold low fare (coach) tickets on flights carried out by its partner airlines: Standard Air Lines founded by Stan D Weiss in Long Beach CA, Viking Air Lines founded by Roscoe R Hart and Jack B Lewin, Twentieth Century Airlines founded by Ed McAndrew, Trans-American Airways of Mauri Swidler and Hemisphere Air Transport. In 1955 NAA handled 275,000 passengers making a profit of $1 million on revenue of $15 million which put it ahead of some legacy scheduled airlines like Western and Northeast. Company was under pressure from the scheduled operators which used C.A.B. to try to shut it down. In July 1956 CAB revoked N.A.A. certificate for violating economic regulations. The same year N.A.A. ordered factory fresh pressurized DC-6s. NAA advertised scheduled service between Oakland, Burbank, Kansas City, Chicago, Washington, New York and Miami. Company had to change name to Trans American in May 1956 because of the pressure from the North American Aviation (aircraft manufacturer)

founded - demised (age)

1954 - January 19 1957  (3)

headquarters

, Burbank CA

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Standard Air Lines	member
Viking Air Lines	member
Twentieth Century Airlines	member
Hemisphere Air Transport	member