Southern Airways [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Southern Airways
Southern Airways was an airline (known at the time as a "local service air carrier" as designated by the federal Civil Aeronautics Board) in the United States from its founding by Frank Hulse in 1949 until 1979 when it merged with North Central Airlines to become Republic Airlines, which on October 1, 1986, became part of Northwest Airlines, which merged into Delta Air Lines in 2010. Southern corporate headquarters was in Birmingham, with operations headquartered at William B. Hartsfield Airport, near Atlanta.
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