Embraer 120

In 1985, Robert F. Hart, a regional manager at AT&T, secured funding for 4 new Embraer 120s and began hiring pilots. The goal was to create a regional airline based out of Chicago Midway Airport. It would fly to several cities in the Midwest and New England.

The flight would occur the next year in September, an EMB-120 flight from MDW to DTW. These Embraer 120s display the first liveries of the airline. The white livery was adopted first, with the metallic livery being adopted to experiment with it's potential fuel savings. These aircraft flew with Calumet until 2008.