Maryland Airlines
company · active 1946
The airline behind the plane-taxicab service from Baltimore to Ocean City announced in April 1946. Passengers flew to Rehoboth Beach and were met with a taxicab for the remaining 26 miles at a rate the company said was comparable to bus fares, the whole trip taking less than two hours; its local representative was Anthony G. Rytina. Its schedule then ran two flights daily from Washington and Baltimore to Rehoboth Beach, to be increased after the vacation season opened. It operated four Cessnas carrying four passengers each and three Noorduyn Norseman transports carrying six to seven.
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1946 · 1946-04-21
In 1946 you could fly to Ocean City by 'plane-taxicab' - land at Rehoboth Beach and be met by a cab for the last twenty-six miles, the whole trip in under two hours.
The Washington Evening Star reported in April 1946 a new plane-taxicab service from Baltimore to Ocean City. Anthony G. Rytina, the local representative, said passengers would be met at Rehoboth Beach with a taxicab to take them the remaining 26 miles to Ocean City at a rate comparable to bus fares, and that altogether the trip would take 'less than two hours'; the airline's schedule of two flights daily from Washington and Baltimore to Rehoboth Beach would be increased gradually after the vacation season opened. Maryland Airlines had four Cessnas carrying four passengers each and three Noorduyn Norseman transports carrying six to seven. By June a competitor was advertising in the same paper: Capitol Air Service out of National Airport, 'to Rehoboth Beach, Ocean City, Md. by air - save time, travel, discomfort, 45 minutes one way, 3 flights daily, $10.50 one way, $19.95 round trip.' And from 28 May, Chesapeake Airways buses connecting the resort and the Salisbury Airport met all flights. Ocean City had no landing field of its own until Robert Lee Cropper began building one in November.
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Source · checked 2026-08-15