MKC CREW BASE
Flight 93 off Kansas City Downtown Airport - - - Estimating Topeka on Schedule at 10:50
It's the Spring of 1964 and Flight 93 has just lifted off Downtown Airport headed west.
How many of you remember where that flight terminated?
City                                       In                  Out
Kansas City, MO........Originate10:20 am
Topeka, KS..................10:50 am       10:58 am
Wichita, KS...................11:54 am       12:08 pm
Hutchinson, KS...........12:28 pm       12:33 pm
Great Bend, KS............12:59 pm         1:15 pm
Dodge City, KS...............1:49 pm         1:54 pm
Garden City, KS............. 2:15 pm         2:18 pm
Lamar, CO........................2:03 pm         2:06 pm
Pueblo, CO...................... 2:47 pm         3:03 pm
Colorado Springs, CO...3:23 pm         3:28 pm
Denver, CO...................... 4:00 pm        TERM
CENTRAL AIRLINES FLIGHT 93 FLIGHT SCHEDULE
To the right you will find the published flight schedule for Flt 93 during the Spring and Summer of 1964.
For you younger folks ... no, I did not make a mistake, those are scheduled 3 minute - one engine - stops on the schedule.
An ex-Central Airlines CV-600 in Frontier paint terminating a flight - MKC
That's Captain Phil Castiloux and F/O John Green headed for Flight Ops
Notice that John is in his proper place for a Co-Pilot -- 10 paces back and to the right
"Central Airlines was founded by Keith Kahle in 1944 to operate charter and fixed base services in Oklahoma. Due to financing difficulties, it did not begin scheduled air service until September 15, 1949 just before its original certification expired. Headquarters were at Meacham Field in Ft. Worth,
Texas. Backers and Board members initially included Ft. Worth oilman F. Kirk Johnson, former City Councilman R.E. Harding, Jr., Don Earhart and actor Jimmy Stewart.

In 1961, the head office was moved to the new Amon Carter Field, which was later re-named Greater Southwest Airport.

By the mid 1960's Central operated to 40 cities spread throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Arkansas and Missouri.

Central was sold and merged into Frontier Airlines on October 1, 1967."