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Paradise Airlines

Short-lived US intrastate airline (1962–1964)

Paradise Airlines was a small California intrastate airline best remembered for a high-mortality 1 March 1964 crash of a Lockheed L-049 Constellation subsequent to a failed approach to South Lake Tahoe Airport in 1964, killing all 85 aboard. The crash helped induce a substantial 1965 change in California's economic regulation of its intrastate airlines.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1962Founded1
  • HeadquartersOakland1

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Lockheed 049 N9414H (5854499965)
Photo: Bill Larkins, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Paradise Airlines was a small California intrastate airline best remembered for a high-mortality 1 March 1964 crash of a Lockheed L-049 Constellation subsequent to a failed approach to South Lake Tahoe Airport in 1964, killing all 85 aboard. The crash helped induce a substantial 1965 change in California's economic regulation of its intrastate airlines.2

Timeline

  1. 1964Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1962Founded Founded1

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