Claim: Howard Hughes only acquired one airline.
Evidence: He acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines and later acquired Air West , renaming it Hughes Airwest.
Hughes Airwest was an airline in the western United States , backed by the Summa Corporation of Howard Hughes.
The original name for the airline was Air West.
Trans World Airlines -LRB- TWA -RRB- was a major American airline from 1924 until 2001.