Stanley Carmichael Kennedy, Sr.

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"Kennedy, Stanley Carmichael (Sr.) (1890—1968)—Born in Honolulu; son of interisland shipping boss James A. Kennedy; attended Punahou School on O‘ahu; graduated from California's Stanford University (1912); joined Naval Aviation Service (1917); earned a Silver Star in World War I flying H-16 flying boats over the North Sea (one of the few residents of the Hawaiian Islands to participate in active duty in World War I overseas); married Martha Davenport, and their son was Stanley Carmichael Kennedy Jr.; on November 11, 1929, with others, founded Inter-Island Airways Ltd. (later renamed Hawaiian Airlines); began interisland commercial air service operations using a Bellanca monoplane and two Sikorsky S-38-C seven-passenger amphibious airplanes, launching a new era of aviation in the Hawaiian Islands; the planes initially made three weekly round trips between Honolulu's John Rodgers Airport (now called Honolulu International Airport) and Hilo, with stops on Maui (the flight took about 3 hours and 15 minutes); trips to Moloka‘i and Lâna‘i were made by prior arrangement; outrigger canoes were used to ferry passengers from the water to the shore; became head of Inter-Island Steam Navigation in 1932; in 1941, Inter-Island Airways Ltd. became Hawaiian Airlines (the same year the 24-passenger DC-3 was introduced); instrumental in Pan American Airways' efforts to begin regular trans-Pacific air service. (See Aviation, Chapter 12.)"