The History of the NAMC YS-11

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This is a reupload of my original video covering the history of the NAMC YS-11 video from April, in which I have shortened the length, and also changed the voice so I correctly say the name of the American airline Piedmont. When I originally recorded the video, I was unaware that in America the word Piedmont is pronounced 'Peedmont', thus I said it in the French manner. Thank you to my American viewers for correcting me on that. :)

In this video, we take a look at Japan's first mass-production commercial airliner venture, the NAMC YS-11. While this is an airliner not often remembered, and was beset by behind the scenes problems that ultimately damaged its overall sales success, the YS-11 still managed to achieve what many other aircraft didn't, and that was to sell in the United States.

I would also like to thank Edward Gambill, a former reservation agent for Piedmont Airlines, for emailing me and pointing out an error regarding the original carrier that purchased the NAMC YS-11 in the mainland USA. The element of Piedmont that actually bought YS-11s in the 1960s was in fact Henson Airlines, a commuter airline based in Hagerstown (later Salisbury), Maryland, which later became an Allegheny Commuter airline in 1967. In 1983, the carrier was bought by Piedmont Aviation, a different airline entity which was based out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and operated between 1948 and 1989 when it was purchased by the USAir Group, after which, in 1993, the former Henson Airlines was rebranded Piedmont in order to protect the trademark, thus resulting in the Piedmont Airlines that is now part of the American Airlines Group.

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References:
- Yesterday's Airliners (and their respective sources)
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