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5 unusual facts about Pacific Southwest Airlines


Bellingham International Airport

In 1985, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) introduced Bellingham's first ever passenger jet service with McDonnell Douglas MD-80 flights direct to Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.

Blythe Airport

Although this air carrier never served Blythe, Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) conducted jet training flights from the Blythe Airport on occasion.

Friedkin Airlines

The first customer was flown by J. Floyd Andrews (who later became the president of the successor Pacific Southwest Airlines) to El Centro.

Naval Air Station Oakland

After the war, airlines slowly returned to Oakland: Western Airlines began flights in 1946, and was followed by American Airlines, TWA, United and Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 was a commercial flight that crashed near Cayucos, California, United States, on December 7, 1987, as a result of a murder–suicide scheme by one of the passengers.


Chico Municipal Airport

Several of these BAe 146 jets the airline had on order were then acquired by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA).

Lake Tahoe Airport

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA): Burbank, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Ontario, San Diego, San Francisco

Holiday Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electras served Lake Tahoe in the 1960s and early 1970's, followed by Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and Air California (later AirCal) Electras.

Sacramento Executive Airport

Aircraft included Martin 4-0-4s and Fairchild F-27s (on Pacific Air Lines), Lockheed L-188 Electras (on Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and Western Airlines), Boeing 727-100s (on PSA and United Airlines) and Boeing 720Bs (on Western); Western had one B720B nonstop a day to LAX.

Stockton Metropolitan Airport

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) and successor USAir were there from 1971-72 until 1980 and again from 1984 until 1991.


see also

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 710 was a Boeing 737-200 flight from Sacramento, California to Los Angeles that was hijacked by Dimitr Alexiev and Michael Azmanoff, two Bulgarian immigrants, on July 5, 1972 shortly after take-off from Sacramento Airport.