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January 1967
Jets reached the bend on a milk run: In January 1967 United Air Lines began flying Sud Aviation Caravelles through South Bend on the route Chicago O'Hare–South Bend–Fort Wayne–Newark and back — French-built twinjets on a four-city chain that gave two Indiana cities their first jet service on the same airplane. The Caravelle service is the hinge of the field's modern history: everything before it is propellers, grass giving way to pavement, and the county field of the regulated era; everything after it is the jet-age airport of extensions, a new terminal, and an authority to run it. Fort Wayne's record, in its own Airports section, dates the same Caravelle chain to the same month — the two cities' jet ages began on one route, on one timetable.
Sources:
- The United Caravelle service record, January 1967 — Chicago O'Hare–South Bend–Fort Wayne–Newark and return; cross-checked against the Fort Wayne Airports section of this history, which records the same service from the Fort Wayne end.