Emerald Air McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14 N38641 CN 47060 LN 109 . Taken in April 1985 .Emerald Air was an airline headquartered in Austin, Texas, United States. Founded by William Ford and Richard Martel,it was formerly known as Emerald Valley Airlines which in 1981 was flying wholly within the state of Texas with scheduled passenger service to Austin, Houston, McAllen and San Antonio. Emerald Airlines' brief history is marked by arrangements to feed connecting flights into both passenger airlines (such as Continental Airlines and Pan Am) and cargo airlines (such as Purolator Courier) much larger route systems. The airline also independently operated scheduled passenger flights within the state of Texas during the mid 1980s with Douglas DC-9-10 jet and Fairchild Hiller FH-227 turboprop aircraft[and briefly served Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and later Wichita, Kansas and Omaha, Nebraska as well.. In 1991, BIA-COR Holdings Inc., acquired Emerald Air's FAA and DOT operating certificate, along with Emerald's three Douglas DC-9-14 aircraft and renamed the carrier Braniff International Airlines, Inc., before promptly going out of business. Parts of Emerald thus became the third and final resurrection of the Braniff name.
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