Piedmont Airlines

Piedmont Airlines is an American regional airline operating for US Airways Express. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the US Airways Group. Headquartered in unincorporated Wicomico County, Maryland, near the City of Salisbury, it conducts flight operations using De Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft along the East Coast of the United States. Its main base is Wicomico Regional Airport, Salisbury, with hubs at Philadelphia International Airport, Cha... more

Piedmont Airlines is an American regional airline operating for US Airways Express. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the US Airways Group. Headquartered in unincorporated Wicomico County, Maryland, near the City of Salisbury, it conducts flight operations using De Havilland Canada Dash 8 aircraft along the East Coast of the United States. Its main base is Wicomico Regional Airport, Salisbury, with hubs at Philadelphia International Airport, Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. The airline was formed in 1931 by Richard Henson as Henson Aviation, a fixed base operator in Hagerstown, Maryland. It began its first scheduled flights to Washington National Airport in 1962 under the Hagerstown Commuter name, later changed to Henson Airlines. Allegheny Airlines (now US Airways) and Henson began one of the world's first code sharing arrangements in 1967, and Henson re-branded itself as an Allegheny Commuter carrier using Beechcraft 99 aircraft. It initially developed a route structure... less