Kenmore Air's 75th Anniversary

[Palmpilot]

How this micro airline has made it to its 75th anniversary

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/kenmore-air-seaplanes-anniversary/index.html

Think of Seattle, and what springs to mind? The Space Needle, for sure. Pike Place Market, almost certainly. For many, there's another classic sight in the Emerald City: the tiny seaplanes darting up and down, making a runway out of the water that surrounds the city.

Many of those planes -- the ones with a slick of bright mustard yellow along the side -- belong to Kenmore Air, a local airline. And if you think they look familiar, that's because they've been a temporary part of the city skyline for 75 years.

A 75th anniversary is a major achievement for any airline, of course -- especially after a year in which even major airlines have gone out of business thanks to the pandemic....​

 

[Jeff Oslick]

A flight with them is fairly high on my bucket list.

 

[Sac Arrow]

I was going to make some snide joke about putting Maytag Airways out of business when I ran across this.

https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/25/obituaries/lewis-maytag-airline-official-is-dead-at-64.html

 

[kgruber]

Always kept my floatplanes there. My rating with them in 1965. Bob Munro was a saint.............

 

[kgruber]

Bob Munro, founder of Kenmore Air Harbor

 

[weilke]

A few years ago, I accompanied my wife to a conference in Seattle. Had a day to kill so I got on one of Kenmores Beavers for the milk run around the San Juans. As I was going to be on board for the entire loop I had the chance to sit up front. 5/5 would do again.

 

[Palmpilot]

Quite a few of Kenmore's planes flew over my house in North Seattle when I was growing up.