Air Greenland and Continental Airlines formerly ran direct flights from the US East Coast from 2007 to 2008, but these were discontinued.

SAC's United States Army Air Forces predecessor, the Continental Air Forces, was established on 13 December 1944 and activated on 15 December 1944.

SAC's original headquarters was located at Bolling Field in Washington, DC, the headquarters of the disestablished Continental Air Forces, with the headquarters organization of CAF being redesignated as Strategic Air Command.

There were thirteen bombardment groups assigned to Continental Air Forces just before its redesignation as SAC.

The airport has aligned itself as the Air Cargo Hub of the Rio Grande Valley and works closely with carriers such as UPS, DHL, FedEx, BAX Global, Continental Express Cargo, and Southwest Airlines Cargo.

Lorenzo sold Eastern's shuttle service to real estate magnate Donald Trump in 1989, under whom it became the Trump Shuttle, while selling other parts of Eastern to his Texas Air holding company and its major subsidiary, Continental Airlines, at terms disadvantageous to Eastern.

This airport is served by American Airlines, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and US Airways.

In December 1948, Twelfth Air Force and March AFB were assigned from Tactical Air Command to Continental Air Command ( ConAC ), established on 1 December 1948.

* Continental Air Command, 1 April 1951 ( placed on active status )

* Continental Air Forces, 28 February 1946

* HQ, Continental Air Command, 16 April 1961 – 1 August 1968

Moody was again transferred to Continental Air Command on 1 December 1948, then reactivated on 25 November 1949.

* Continental Air Forces, 16 April 1945

* Continental Air Command *, 1 December 1948

* Continental Air Forces, 16 April 1945

A reserve training unit was established by the Continental Air Forces Fourth Air Force under the 418th Army Air Force Base Unit on 10 October 1946.

On 16 April 1945, Clovis AAF was transferred from jurisdiction of Second Air Force to Continental Air Command, CAC continued the flying, bombing, gunnery and photographic reconnaissance classes through the end of World War II.

The Quartermaster School became a part of the Continental Army Command service school system and was also selected to serve as the home of the Quartermaster Corps and Corps Historian.

: The Western Air Defense Sector ( WADS ), with headquarters at McChord, is the largest of the United States Air Defense sectors responsible to the North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ) and the Continental NORAD Region for peacetime air sovereignty, strategic air defense, and airborne counter-drug operations in the continental United States.

Serving largely as a headquarters base in a curtailed operational capacity during the post-World War II years, the Continental Air Command, Strategic Air Command and the Military Air Transport Service have been headquartered here.

Its primary units were 84 flying squadrons, mostly equipped with F-51 Mustang and F-47 Thunderbolt fighters with air defense of the continental United States as their main mission, it's units under the jurisdiction of the Continental Air Command of the regular Air Force.

Other carriers that served the airport include Commuter Airlines, Mall Airways, Command Airways ( later dba American Eagle ), TW Express ( also dba United Express ), and Continental Express.

The Caribbean Defense Command provided 960 jungle-trained officers and men, 970 jungle-trained officers and men came from Army Ground Forces ( based in the Continental United States ) and a further 674 " battle-tested " jungle troops from the South Pacific Command ( Army veterans of the Guadalcanal and Solomon Islands campaigns ), with all troops to assemble at Noumea, New Caledonia.

Continental Air Forces was inactivated, and First Air Force was assigned to the postwar Air Defense Command in March 1946 and subsequently to Continental Air Command ( ConAC ) in December 1948 being primarily concerned with air defense.

Activation of the Continental United States North American Aerospace Defense Regions on 1 October 1986, resulted in a new structure for the 30-year-old, binational North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ).

* Continental Air Command, 1 Dec 1948 – 23 Jun 1958

) On 13 December 1944, First, Second, Third and Fourth Air Force were all were placed under the unified command of the Continental Air Forces, the predecessor of the later established Strategic Air Command, Tactical Air Command, and Air Defense Command, which were all established in 1946.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

When Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

Beyond improving their existing association, the records of the Second Continental Congress show that the need for a declaration of independence was intimately linked with the demands of international relations.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

The first Commandant was Samuel Nicholas, who took office as a captain, though there was no office titled " Commandant " at the time, and the Second Continental Congress had authorized that the senior-most Marine could take a rank up to Colonel.

Allen publicly announced that he was stepping down as commander, but remained hopeful that the Second Continental Congress was going to name " a commander for this department ...

At first his treatment was poor, but Allen wrote a letter, ostensibly to the Continental Congress, describing his conditions and suggesting that Congress treat the prisoners it held the same way.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

He was elected as the second president under the Articles of Confederation, and the President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783.

Boudinot was commissioned as a colonel in the Continental Army for this work.

In November 1782, he was elected as President of the Continental Congress for a one-year term.

When the Continental Congress was forced to leave Philadelphia in 1783 while he was president, he moved the meetings to Princeton, where they met in the College's Nassau Hall.

Gerry was elected to serve on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress when the American Revolutionary War broke out, where he used his merchant connections to see that the Continental Army besieging Boston was supplied.

Gerry was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780.

His father John Ross Key was a lawyer, a judge, and an officer in the Continental Army.