Cable Commuter
Airlines DHC-6 Twin Otter 100
N7711
(c/n 109)
Cable Commuter Airlines was founded in
November of 1967 by Roger Cable and Bill Myers.
Headquartered
in Ontario Airport, Southern California, it provided service between
Los Angeles
International Airport and Ontario, Inyokern and Palmdale. TWA
permitted the airline to use some
of its counter
space at LAX recognizing that such "feeder lines" could, and would,
provide many extra
passengers to
its own system.. The fares were relatively inexpensive and it
sure beat wrestling with
L.A's
(even then) horrible traffic problems. As a result, Cable
expanded rapidly in 1968 extending its
service to communities in both Orange and Ventura Counties of Southern
California. However, by
1969
things in the Third Level business were getting a little crowded in the
L.A. Basin area and nego-
tiations
were soon under way with several other Third Level carriers (to wit
Aero Commuter, Skymark
and
the original Golden West) resulting in the formation of a "new
improved" Golden
West Airlines.
Cable's
Twin Otters were absorbed into the fleet of the new airline. The
Twin Otters of the various
fleets were all assembled at Long Beach in 1969 to be repainted in
Golden West livery. Alhough one
of these still
bore Cable's markings as I recall it, I could not get a clear shot of
it. Unfortnately, therefore,
the above
image which came from a brochure I picked up at Long Beach Airport one
day, is the only
one I
have of a Cable Commuter Twin Otter.