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  • 11Sep

    A Little CORE History

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    CORE began operations in 1968 as Colorado Regional Airways with a fleet of  three DeHavilland DHC-6 Series 100 Twin Otter aircraft. Two of these were configured for 18 seats and the other for 13. The 13 seat plane went down in heavy weather between Boulder-Springs and Aspen exactly 13 months and 13 days after it was put in service. The crash was determined to be pilot error.

    Colorado Regional managed to keep to assigned schedules by leasing a converted DC-3 to cover some routes until an 18 seat DHC-6 Series 200 was delivered in 1970.

    60% of the airline’s stock was acquired by Damien Holdings in the early 1980′s and the name of the ompany was changed to CORE (from COlorado REgional) Airways. With a massive influx of cash, infrastructure and technology from BeriCraft Aviation (another company with heavy investment from Damien Holdings.)

    By 2000, the company had grown to a $US 16 Billion company with over 75,000 employees.

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