Brockway Air
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Brockway Air was a regional airline in the United States, which was formerly known as Air North and originally as Northern Airways.
Headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, the airline began operating in the late 1960s under a marketing relationship with Mohawk Airlines, replacing or supplementing Mohawk's service at small communities in northern New York state and New England. These services connected Boston, Albany, New York and Syracuse, New York with Worcester, Massachusetts, Keene, New Hampshire, Burlington and Rutland in Vermont and the northern New York state cities of Plattsburgh, Saranac Lake, Massena, Ogdensburg and Watertown. Northern Airways' initial fleet consisted of the deHavilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter STOL (short take off and landing) commuter turboprop airliner.
Following the acquisition of Mohawk Airlines by Allegheny Airlines in April 1972, Air North (the name that Northern Airways then operated under) became an Allegheny Commuter air carrier, operating codeshare services for Allegheny that connected the northern New York cities along with Burlington and Rutland to the larger airports at Syracuse, NY and Albany, NY.
Air North ended its Allegheny Commuter relationship in the late 1970s and expanded service in New York state and New England into the early 1980s. The airline's fleet was also expanded with the addition in 1979 of 30-seat Short 330 commuter airliners. These larger turboprop aircraft joined the Air North fleet shortly before the 1980 Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid, New York near Air North's service point of Saranac Lake.
Further fleet growth came in 1980 when Air North became an operator of the Grumman Gulfstream I-C (G-159C) regional airliner, a 37-seat stretched conversion of the Grumman Gulfstream I turboprop executive aircraft. Powered by Rolls Royce Dart engines, the Grumman I-C was used by Air North on routes requiring greater speed and passenger capacity than was possible with the airline's Shorts 330s. Air North was one of the very few airlines to ever operate the Gulfstream I-C propjet in scheduled passenger service.
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