Originally Posted by
mauiUAflyer
2010-85=1925. This was before they were "United" (during the break-up during the New Deal in the 1930's), and were actually BATC (Boeing Air Transport Company, or something close to that). It would actually be cool if they could have something like a livery from that time-frame.
This is being done for next year. United was founded as Boeing Air Transport in 1926 and it along with what would later become Pratt & Whitney were divisions of Boeing at the time. They were later spun off and the airline became United in 1934. Pratt and Whitney's parent company is named United Technologies, and that is no coincidence. This also is the reason United and PW have a strong relationship that continues to this day.
Because of the original founding, United says they are the oldest airline operating in the United States.