8/23/1965: Air Wisconsin Airlines Begins Operations

DALLAS – Today in Aviation, commuter carrier Air Wisconsin Airlines (ZW) started operations in 1965, just one day after Outagamie County Regional Airport was opened. The regional airfield was later renamed Appleton International Airport (ATW).

For the occasion, ZW used a de Havilland Dove commuter aircraft configured with nine passenger seats. The airline is currently based at ATW in the town of Greenville, Wisconsin, US. 

Air Wisconsin BAe 146 series 200 at Chicago O’Hare in 1987. Photo: RuthAS, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Air Wisconsin Origins


Air Wisconsin was founded to connect Appleton with Chicago. The airline initially had 17 employees and two de Havilland Dove read more ⇒

Source:: “Airways Magazine”

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