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In what year did the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line begin operations?

  • 1920

  • 1914

  • 1908

  • 1932

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The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line's operations commenced in 1914, pioneering commercial airline services in the United States. It operated as the nation's first regularly scheduled passenger airline, with a fleet of flying boats that transported travelers and mail between the cities of St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida. The line demonstrated the potential of air travel and paved the way for the development of the commercial aviation industry in the country.
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