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Old May 3, 2022 | 2:55 pm
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HNLbasedFlyer
 
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Originally Posted by IAH-OIL-TRASH
One graphic is wrong in video - HA definitely didn't start flying between Hawaii and Mainland in 1929. 1966 might have been first Mainland flight. Between 1929 and 1966, I think HA was just inter-island.
Neighbor Island jet service began in 1966

Hawaiian did fly to the mainland in jets in 1960 - I'm not sure if they flew prop planes to the mainland before that.

I actually got to take a circle island flight in one of the original Sikorsky planes flown by the past CEO Mark Dunkerley
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