![]() ![]() Captain Blair was one of the most experienced airmen in commercial aviation. Throughout his long and colorful career, the frontiers of the sky were a constant challenge.Ī senior pilot for Pan American World Airways for 29 years including 10 years with American Overseas Airlines (which merged with Pan Am), and for another major US airline before that. "The sky is full of new frontiers," he once wrote and he never ceased believing that. To Charles Blair flying was much more than a fast way to get from one place to another, much more than a way for a pilot to make a living. Following is a biography supplied by Maureen of her beloved Charles. Although he was tragically killed in a plane crash ten years later, he brought to Maureen the happiest years of her life. Maureen O'Hara married General Charles Blair, the love of her life in 1968. Charles Blair flew the first PAA jet, a B707, through Gander on PAA's inaugural trans atlantic jet flight on Biography of Charles Blair His experiences flying through Gander during the early stages of aviation in the post war era, he made many friends in Gander. After his service with USSAF during WWII, he was a part of the birth of commercial aviation on the North Atlantic. ![]() goes back to his piloting flying boats into Botwood in the late 1930s. Charles Blair's association with aviation in Nfld. ![]()
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