page_title: Ozark Air Lines
section_title: Jets
hierarchical_section_title: Ozark Air Lines / History / Jets
caption_attribution_description: Douglas DC-9-31 N976Z of Ozark Air Lines at Chicago O'Hare in 1975
context_page_description: Ozark Air Lines operated in the United States from 1950 until 1986 when it was purchased by Trans World Airlines. In 2001 TWA was merged into American Airlines. A smaller regional airline that used the Ozark name operated in 2000–2001. From 1950 until 1986 Ozark's headquarters was located at St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
context_section_description: In 1961 Ozark's network reached from Minneapolis to Nashville and from Kansas City to Indianapolis and Louisville. Denver was added in 1966 and in 1969 the network sprouted eastward: Ozark was awarded nonstops from Champaign and Peoria to Washington Dulles, continuing to New York LaGuardia. Atlanta was added in 1978 and four Florida cities in winter 1978-79.
  In September 1966 Ozark and Central Airlines announced plans to merge, subject to CAB approval; the new airline was to retain the Ozark name and would be one of the largest local service carriers in the U.S. However, in November 1966, the two airlines announced that merger talks had ended by mutual consent for undisclosed reasons.
  By 1967 the Martins and F-27s were replaced with Fairchild Hiller FH-227s, a stretched F-27; Ozark was all-turbine after the last DC-3 flight in October 1968. Ozark's first jets were Douglas DC-9-10s in July 1966. The DC-9-10s were augmented with McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30s (DC-9-31/32) and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-40s; the airline ordered two Boeing 727-200s but never took delivery.  Ozark went all-DC-9 in 1980 and in 1984 McDonnell Douglas MD-80s were added. The three swallows on Ozark fins represented on-time flights, referring to the legend of the swallows that return to the Mission of San Juan Capistrano, in California, each year on the 19th of March.
caption: Ozark Douglas DC-9-31 at O'Hare in 1975
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