Here’s an advertisement for Robinson Aviation / Robinson Airlines, from 1945, featuring a sketch of a Fairchild F24.
The airline was founded in 1945 by C.S. Robinson, and was based out of Ithaca Municipal Airport, at Ithaca, New York, servicing routes in the Mohawk Valley of New York State. Renamed Mohawk Airlines in 1952, the company survived until the early 1970s, when it merged with Allegheny Airlines.
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Announcing
FIRST DAILY NON-STOP
AIR SERVICE
between
ITHACA and NEW YORK CITY
RESERVATIONS and INFORMATION
ITHACA, SENECA BUILDING – PHONE: ITHACA 3-1576
NEW YORK, 730 FIFTH AVENUE – PHONE: CIRCLE 6-4546
| FLIGHT 2 | SCHEDULE | FLIGHT 1 |
| 8:OO A.M. Lv. | ITHACA | Ar. 6:55 P.M. |
| 9:45 A.M. Ar. | NEW YORK | Lv. 5:00 P.M. |
This service has been established to provide ITHACA INDUSTRY and CORNELL UNIVERSITY with direct air transportation to New York City. At present four-place Fairchild airplanes are being used to provide one round trip daily. Schedules will be adjusted and expanded as necessary.
ROBINSON AIRLINES
ITHACA, NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY
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This video, from the AOPA (Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association) YouTube channel, provides great views of an F24 in flight. And on the ground, for that matter.