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April 1957 – 1979 · Bendix Field / Michiana Regional — boundary size
The mature regulated-era airport is timetable-dated. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows four carriers serving South Bend, with weekday departures of North Central 10, United 9, Lake Central 6, and Trans World Airlines 3 — twenty-eight weekday departures at a two-runway county field. The first scheduled jets arrived in January 1967: United Caravelles, flying Chicago O'Hare–South Bend–Fort Wayne–Newark and back, put the county on the jet route map a decade after the timetable above. The regulated era at the field closes with consolidation: on July 1, 1979, North Central — the 1957 departure leader — merged with Southern Airways to form Republic Airlines. The carrier names on the 1957 page (North Central, Lake Central) are themselves the period's signature: regional carriers built on the upper Midwest, feeding the trunk lines at a field the county had owned for twenty years.