Airways until the mid-1960s. The airline had six Convair 340s on order at the time of the merger. Destinations in 1951 By the early 1950s, the airline's route system stretched from Minnesota and North Dakota in the north central U.S. to the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas. According to its September 1, 1951, system timetable, Mid-Continent was serving the following destinations: United States Arkansas Fort Smith, Arkansas Texarkana, Arkansas Texas/Arkansas Illinois Chicago, Illinois Quincy, Illinois Rockford, Illinois Iowa Des Moines, Iowa Dubuque, Iowa Mason City, Iowa Ottumwa, Iowa Sioux City, Iowa original headquarters Waterloo, Iowa Louisiana New Orleans, Louisiana Shreveport, Louisiana Minnesota Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota - Hub Missouri Joplin, Missouri Jefferson City, Missouri served prior to 1951 Kansas City, Missouri Hub & airline headquarters\ Rochester, Minnesota St. Joseph, Missouri St. Louis, Missouri Nebraska Lincoln, Nebraska Omaha, Nebraska North Dakota Bismarck, North Dakota Bismarck/Mandan Fargo, North Dakota served prior to 1951 Grand Forks, North Dakota served prior to 1951 Minot, North Dakota Pembina, North Dakota served prior to 1951 Oklahoma Muskogee, Oklahoma McAlester, Oklahoma served prior to 1951 Tulsa, Oklahoma South Dakota Aberdeen, South Dakota Huron, South Dakota Sioux Falls, South Dakota Watertown, South Dakota Texas Houston, Texas Longview, Texas Longview/Kilgore/Gladewater Paris, Texas Tyler, Texas Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin served prior to 1951 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Canada Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba served briefly in 1934 (as Hanford Airlines) Braniff International continued to serve the vast majority of the destinations listed above following its acquisition of Mid-Continent in 1952; however, by 1960 Braniff had ceased serving many of the smaller cities previously served by Mid-Continent. Incidents and accidents February 27, 1951,Convair CV-240-2 (N90664) crashed on climbout from Tulsa International Airport after the flaps were retracted at a too low air speed following engine problems; all 34 passengers and crew survived, but the aircraft was written off. The aircraft was operating a Minneapolis-Houston service with intermediate stops. March 2, 1951, Mid-Continent Airlines Flight 16, a Douglas DC-3A (N19928), stalled and crashed at Sioux City, Iowa while making a turn to land, killing 16 of 25 on board. The aircraft was operating a Kansas City-Minneapolis service with intermediate stops. June 11, 1941, just after midnight, Mid-Continent Airlines Flight 8, a Lockheed Model 10 Electra, registered as NC16058, originated at Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 7:30 p.m., with Minneapolis, Minnesota, as its terminating destination. Intermediate stops at Kansas City, Missouri, Omaha, Nebraska, Sioux City, Iowa, and Sioux Falls, Huron,