Air Illinois
Overview
 
Air Illinois was a commuter airline based in Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois
Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, in the state of Illinois, within the Southern Illinois region. It is located at the junction of Illinois Route 13 and U.S. Route 51, southeast of St. Louis, Missouri, on the northern edge of the Shawnee National Forest...

, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

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Founded in 1970 in Carbondale
Carbondale, Illinois
Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, in the state of Illinois, within the Southern Illinois region. It is located at the junction of Illinois Route 13 and U.S. Route 51, southeast of St. Louis, Missouri, on the northern edge of the Shawnee National Forest...

, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

, Air Illinois primarily operated small twin turboprop aircraft such as the DeHavilland Twin Otter. By 1978, the company acquired two 44-seat Hawker-Siddeley
Hawker-Siddeley
Hawker Siddeley was a group of British manufacturing companies engaged in aircraft production. Hawker Siddeley combined the legacies of several British aircraft manufacturers, emerging through a series of mergers and acquisitions as one of only two such major British companies in the 1960s. In...

 HS 748 turboprops (tail numbers N748LL and N749LL), which were mostly used to connect Springfield, Illinois
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the third and current capital of the US state of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon County with a population of 117,400 , making it the sixth most populated city in the state and the second most populated Illinois city outside of the Chicago Metropolitan Area...

 with Chicago's Meigs Field
Meigs Field
Merrill C. Meigs Field Airport , was a single strip airport that operated from December 1948 until March 2003. It was built on Northerly Island, the man-made peninsula that was also the site of the 1933–1934 Century of Progress in Chicago....

. This was by far the largest aircraft to use the lakefront airport on a regular basis.
Quotations

You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run — Tried to hide — Break on through to the other side!

"Break Through (To The Other Side)" from The Doors (album)|The Doors (1967)

We chased our pleasures here, Dug our treasures there, But can you still recall The time we cried? Break on through to the other side.

"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" from The Doors

It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.

"The End" from The Doors (1967)

People are strange when you're a stranger Faces look ugly when you're alone Women seem wicked when you're unwanted Streets are uneven when you're down.

"People Are Strange" on the album Strange Days|Strange Days (1967)

When you're strange Faces come out of the rain When you're strange No one remembers your name When you're strange.

"People Are Strange" on the album Strange Days (1967)

Five to one, baby One in five No one here gets out alive, now You get yours, baby I'll get mine Gonna make it, baby If we try.

"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun|Waiting for the Sun (1968)

The old get older And the young get stronger May take a week And it may take longer They got the guns But we got the numbers Gonna win, yeah We're takin' over Come on!

"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)

At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...

"Waiting for the Sun" on the album Morrison Hotel|Morrison Hotel (1970)

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

"Waiting for the Sun" on the album Morrison Hotel (1970)

Killer on the roadHis brain is squirming like a toad.

"Riders on the Storm" from the album L.A. Woman|L.A. Woman (1971).

 
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