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Hughes Airwest largely depended on aircraft types the Fokker F-27, various DC-9 models from the DC-9-20 to the DC-9-30 and the Boeing 727-200. All seen here.
The Yellow Banana was one of the many names given Hughes Airways. Hughes AIrwest was simply Air West after a merger of three local carriers, West Coast Airlines, Pacific Air Lines and Bonanza Air Lines. Then came multi-millionaire Howard Hughes, the former owner of TWA, buying the newly formed Air West and thus the eponymous label of Hughes Airwest.
I myself managed a couple of trips on RW (their code back then) on flights from SFO to Phoenix and it had an easy going PSA-like mystique about it.
Someone had to bring them back so here it is, Hughes Airwest.