Airline-dle
Puzzle #87 was Colgan Air.
Colgan Air was a regional airline in the United States that operated from 1965 until 2012, when it became a subsidiary of Pinnacle Airlines Corp. The initial headquarters of Colgan Air was in Manassas, Virginia until 2010, and then Memphis, Tennessee until closure in 2012.
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What the record says
Puzzle 87 ran on 6 Oct 2026 and the answer was Colgan Air, played with 6 guesses against 5 columns. On the record: Country - United States; Region - North America; Status - defunct; Alliance - none. The numbers: Founded - 1990.
Beyond the grid the record adds Callsign - COLGAN; Codes - 9L / CJC; Ceased operations - 2012.
Airline-dle builds its record from OpenFlights - Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 and Wikidata - CC0 1.0 (region, founding decade, alliance, hub, headquarters). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: English Wikipedia summary excerpt, CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America
- Status
- defunct
- Founded
- 1990
- Alliance
- none
Also on the record
- Callsign
- COLGAN
- Codes
- 9L / CJC
- Ceased operations
- 2012