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48-530: Hughes Air Corporation , doing business as Hughes Airwest , was a local service carrier from 1970 to 1980 in the Western United States . It was backed by Howard Hughes ' Summa Corporation . Its original name in 1968 was Air West and the air carrier was owned by Nick Bez . Hughes Airwest flew routes in the western U.S. and to several destinations in Mexico and Canada; its headquarters were on

96-420: A DBA must be registered with a local or state government, or both, depending on the jurisdiction. For example, California, Texas and Virginia require a DBA to be registered with each county (or independent city in the case of Virginia) where the owner does business. Maryland and Colorado have DBAs registered with a state agency. Virginia also requires corporations and LLCs to file a copy of their registration with

144-467: A DBA statement, though names including the first and last name of the owner may be accepted. This also reduces the possibility of two local businesses operating under the same name, although some jurisdictions do not provide exclusivity for a name, or may allow more than one party to register the same name. Note, though, that this is not a substitute for filing a trademark application. A DBA filing carries no legal weight in establishing trademark rights. In

192-516: A businessperson writes a trade name on a contract, invoice, or cheque, they must also add the legal name of the business. Numbered companies will very often operate as something other than their legal name, which is unrecognizable to the public. In Chile , a trade name is known as a nombre de fantasía ('fantasy' or 'fiction' name), and the legal name of business is called a razón social (social name). In Ireland , businesses are legally required to register business names where these differ from

240-461: A flight attendant on board, landed safely at Denver's Stapleton airport at 2:55 p.m. MST . Facing potential death penalty charges for air piracy , the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. Army paratrooper was sentenced to forty years, but served less than eight, and was released from a halfway house in 1979; he died at age 60 in his native New Hampshire in 2008. Trade name In

288-611: A local geographic term, the area referred to as "the Peninsula" is distinct from that denoted by "the City", and refers to the portion south of San Francisco. The appellation may date to the period prior to 1856, when the City of San Francisco and the County of San Francisco were separate entities, the latter then coextensive with contemporary San Mateo County and San Francisco City-County. The City-County owns several disjunct properties along

336-531: A metallized PET film coating originally, but this proved too costly to maintain. Zamparelli also designed the uniforms of the flight attendants in the new colors, primarily in Sundance Yellow trimmed with Universe Blue. After the sale in October 1980 the all-yellow paint scheme was gradually replaced by Republic's white with blue and green trim. Aircraft tails bore Republic's flying mallard , "Herman

384-480: A number of countries, the phrase " trading as " (abbreviated to t/a ) is used to designate a trade name. In the United States , the phrase " doing business as " (abbreviated to DBA , dba , d.b.a. , or d/b/a ) is used, among others, such as assumed business name or fictitious business name . In Canada , " operating as " (abbreviated to o/a ) and " trading as " are used, although " doing business as "

432-458: A registered legal name and a fictitious business name, or trade name, is important because fictitious business names do not always identify the entity that is legally responsible . Legal agreements (such as contracts ) are normally made using the registered legal name of the business. If a corporation fails to consistently adhere to such important legal formalities like using its registered legal name in contracts, it may be subject to piercing of

480-529: Is San Francisco International Airport , itself connected to US 101 and BART and accessible to Caltrain (via a BART connection at Milbrae station). San Jose International Airport , is the next largest airport in the region serving and might be a more viable option for the southern peninsula. The airport is connected to US 101 and there is a single connector bus, VTA Line 60, that links to Caltrain (at Santa Clara Transit Center) and to eastern lines of BART (Milpitas). Oakland International Airport , located in

528-454: Is also sometimes used. A company typically uses a trade name to conduct business using a simpler name rather than using their formal and often lengthier name. Trade names are also used when a preferred name cannot be registered, often because it may already be registered or is too similar to a name that is already registered. Using one or more fictitious business names does not create additional separate legal entities. The distinction between

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576-707: Is called a razón social . San Francisco Peninsula The San Francisco Peninsula is a peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area that separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean . On its northern tip is the City and County of San Francisco . Its southern base is Los Altos and Mountain View , in Santa Clara County , south of Palo Alto and north of Sunnyvale . Most of

624-533: The East Bay , is the smallest of the three and is also accessible directly via BART. The San Francisco Peninsula contains a variety of habitats including estuarine , marine, oak woodland , redwood forest, coastal scrub and oak savanna . There are numerous species of wildlife present, especially along the San Francisco Bay estuarine shoreline , San Bruno Mountain , Fitzgerald Marine Reserve and

672-569: The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority operates buses to other parts of Santa Clara County. Most of the peninsula's bus transit to the East Bay and North Bay flowing through San Francisco, as neither AC Transit nor Golden Gate Transit , the primary transit operators for the East and North Bay respectively, serve the peninsula south of San Francisco. The peninsula's largest commercial airport

720-466: The United Kingdom , there is no filing requirement for a "business name", defined as "any name under which someone carries on business" that, for a company or limited liability partnership, "is not its registered name", but there are requirements for disclosure of the owner's true name and some restrictions on the use of certain names. A minority of U.S. states, including Washington , still use

768-784: The forests on the Montara Mountain block. The area is home to several endangered species including the San Francisco garter snake , the Mission blue butterfly and the San Bruno elfin butterfly , all of which are endemic to San Mateo County . The endangered California clapper rail is also found on the shores of San Francisco Bay , in the cities of Belmont and San Mateo . Although tule elk , an elk subspecies found only in California, were historically native to

816-545: The hijacking by D. B. Cooper of Northwest Orient flight 305, Hughes Airwest was the target of a copycat hijacker in early 1972. After boarding Flight 800 at McCarran airport in Las Vegas in late morning on Thursday, January 20, 23-year-old Richard Charles LaPoint claimed he had a bomb while the plane was on the taxiway and demanded $ 50,000 cash, two parachutes , and a helmet. When these demands were met, 51 Reno -bound passengers and two flight attendants were released;

864-493: The 1970s, notably The Gauntlet with Clint Eastwood and Sondra Locke in 1977 . Eastwood's character arrives in Las Vegas from Phoenix on the airline and when he phones the airport for flight departure times, Locke's character sarcastically called the airline, "Air Worst ." Also in 1977, the airline was operating service from both Burbank (BUR) and Orange County (SNA) to Denver (DEN) via an interchange flight agreement with

912-527: The DC-9 departed eastward toward Denver , followed by two F-111 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force from nearby Nellis AFB . The parachutes were high-visibility and equipped with emergency locator devices. Without a coat and in cowboy boots , the hijacker bailed out from the lower aft door over the treeless plains of northeastern Colorado in mid-afternoon. LaPoint was apprehended a few hours later, with minor injuries and very cold. The plane, with two pilots and

960-619: The Duck." Air West and Hughes Airwest operated the following aircraft types at various times during their existence: This is a list of destinations taken from the Air West system timetable dated July 1, 1968, when the merger to form Air West became effective. Cities served with jets are noted in bold . Air West was operating Boeing 727-100 , Douglas DC-9-10 , and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets, as well as Fairchild F-27 turboprops and small Piper Navajo twin props at this time. The majority of

1008-581: The Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County , between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton , Belmont , Brisbane , Burlingame , Colma , Daly City , East Palo Alto , El Granada , Foster City , Half Moon Bay , Hillsborough , La Honda , Loma Mar , Los Altos , Los Altos Hills , Menlo Park , Millbrae , Mountain View , Pacifica , Palo Alto , Pescadero , Portola Valley , Redwood City , Redwood Shores , San Bruno , San Carlos , San Mateo , South San Francisco , West Menlo Park and Woodside . Whereas

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1056-611: The Peninsula is on the east side of the Santa Cruz Mountains , along San Francisco Bay ; the west and south-central portions of the Peninsula are mostly rural, unincorporated, and unorganized areas. A substantial portion of Silicon Valley is located on the peninsula. In Silicon Valley are the headquarters of some of the largest tech companies in the world, such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Apple. Since 2010, droughts and wildfires have increased in frequency and become less seasonal and more year-round, further straining

1104-621: The San Francisco peninsula . Its new headquarters were located in San Mateo. The airline scheduled the move to a new headquarters in late August 1973; the complex was on a hill overlooking San Mateo and San Francisco Bay. The airline relocated two departments from the offices at San Francisco International Airport: flight control and reservations. Hughes Airwest's planes were recognizable by their banana-yellow fuselage and tail colors. Their airplanes were often dubbed "flying bananas" and

1152-572: The San Francisco Peninsula, they were hunted to extinction by 1850. Expansion of Diablo Range elk to western Santa Clara County , and San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties has been blocked by U.S. Highway 101 in Coyote Valley south of San Jose, California . A number of noteworthy parks and nature preserves are found on the San Francisco Peninsula, including: There are a number of well-known structures and complexes on

1200-418: The U.S., trademark rights are acquired by use in commerce, but there can be substantial benefits to filing a trademark application. Sole proprietors are the most common users of DBAs. Sole proprietors are individual business owners who run their businesses themselves. Since most people in these circumstances use a business name other than their own name, it is often necessary for them to get DBAs. Generally,

1248-565: The US$ 90 million deal was finalized in April 1970. Renamed Hughes Air West , its call sign became "Hughes Air," and the airline expanded to several cities in the western United States, Canada, and Mexico. With the new yellow paint scheme, unveiled in September 1971, the airline began calling itself Hughes Airwest , two words instead of the initial three. The airline participated in some movies in

1296-511: The airline launched an advertising campaign with the catchphrase "Top Banana in the West." Most nicknames given to Hughes Airwest airplanes in aviation books and magazines have to do with bananas. Apart from their all-yellow scheme, the airplanes also featured a blue logo on the vertical stabilizer (tail) that resembled three diamonds connected (possibly a reference to the initials of Howard Hughes). The name Hughes Airwest , in stylized lettering,

1344-474: The airline was grounded for two months by a walkout by their ticket agents, reservations handlers, and office employees, who had been without a contract for over a year. During 1979, several airlines showed interest in buying Hughes Airwest, including Alaska and Allegheny , with the latter soon becoming USAir . The strike was resolved in late October and flights resumed in November. Four months later they were

1392-484: The corporate veil . In English , trade names are generally treated as proper nouns . In Argentina , a trade name is known as a nombre de fantasía ('fantasy' or 'fiction' name), and the legal name of business is called a razón social (social name). In Brazil , a trade name is known as a nome fantasia ('fantasy' or 'fiction' name), and the legal name of business is called razão social (social name). In some Canadian jurisdictions , such as Ontario , when

1440-534: The county or city to be registered with the State Corporation Commission. DBA statements are often used in conjunction with a franchise . The franchisee will have a legal name under which it may sue and be sued, but will conduct business under the franchiser's brand name (which the public would recognize). A typical real-world example can be found in a well-known pricing mistake case, Donovan v. RRL Corp. , 26 Cal. 4th 261 (2001), where

1488-550: The destinations on this list that did not have jet service were served with F-27 twin turboprops. ARIZONA: CALIFORNIA: IDAHO: MONTANA: NEVADA: OREGON: UTAH: WASHINGTON: CANADA: MEXICO: In 1980, Hughes Airwest was an all-jet airline operating Boeing 727-200 , Douglas DC-9-10 , and McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 aircraft. The timetable for September 1 lists service to: ARIZONA: CALIFORNIA: COLORADO: IDAHO: IOWA: MONTANA: NEVADA: OREGON: TEXAS: UTAH: WASHINGTON: WISCONSIN: CANADA: MEXICO: On

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1536-553: The east side along the bay, Interstate 280 down the center, Skyline Boulevard ( SR 35 ) along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains , and SR 1 on the west along the Pacific, and SR 85 which forms the southern end of the Peninsula. Caltrain is the primary passenger rail transit in the peninsula, serving much of the eastern urbanized areas of the peninsula between Mountain View (which also connects to VTA light rail ) and San Francisco's 4th and King Street station. In addition,

1584-532: The evening of Sunday, June 6, 1971, Flight 706, a Douglas DC-9-31 collided in mid-air with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B fighter over southern California near Duarte . All 49 on the airliner and the F-4 pilot were killed; the sole survivor was the F-4 radar intercept officer . Flight 706 had departed Los Angeles for Seattle , with five intermediate stops, the first in Salt Lake City . Two months after

1632-450: The grounds of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in unincorporated San Mateo County, California . With distinctive all-yellow aircraft, the company slogan was Top Banana in the West ; Hughes Airwest was purchased by Republic Airlines in 1980, which in turn was merged into Northwest Airlines in 1986. Northwest Airlines was then merged into Delta Air Lines in 2010. On April 17, 1968, three earlier local service carriers in

1680-402: The law is to protect the public from fraud, by compelling the business owner to first file or register his fictitious business name with the county clerk, and then making a further public record of it by publishing it in a newspaper. Several other states, such as Illinois , require print notices as well. In Uruguay , a trade name is known as a nombre fantasía , and the legal name of business

1728-461: The named defendant, RRL Corporation, was a Lexus car dealership doing business as " Lexus of Westminster ", but remaining a separate legal entity from Lexus, a division of Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. . In California , filing a DBA statement also requires that a notice of the fictitious name be published in local newspapers for some set period of time to inform the public of the owner's intent to operate under an assumed name . The intention of

1776-560: The original Frontier Airlines . Hughes Airwest soon introduced its own jet service to Denver from a number of locations. Like other local service airlines in the 1970s, Hughes Airwest eliminated many stops and opened longer routes. Service expanded to resorts in Mexico; domestic routes didn't reach east of Utah and Arizona until Denver, Des Moines, Milwaukee, and Houston Hobby Airport were added in 1978. When it ended F-27 turboprop flights in 1979, Hughes Airwest became an all-jet airline with 727-200s, DC-9-10s, and DC-9-30s. In September 1979 ,

1824-531: The peninsula has access to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) northward of Millbrae , connecting San Mateo County and San Francisco to the East Bay through a route over and under Daly City , Glen Park , San Francisco's Mission district , and through part of Market Street subway . Bus service is predominantly provided by SamTrans and the SFMTA 's Muni buses, which primarily run in San Mateo and San Francisco counties respectively. In addition, southward of Palo Alto,

1872-664: The peninsula is a densely populated and largely urban and suburban area that includes portions of Silicon Valley. It forms a commuter area between San Francisco to the north and San Jose to the south. The bridges in the Peninsula include the Dumbarton Bridge , the Golden Gate Bridge , the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge , and the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge . A number of major thoroughfares run north-south: El Camino Real ( SR 82 ) and US 101 on

1920-634: The region's water security . Along the center line of the Peninsula is the northern half of the Santa Cruz Mountains , formed by the action of plate tectonics along the San Andreas Fault . In the middle of the Peninsula along the fault is the Crystal Springs Reservoir . Just north of the Crystal Springs reservoir is San Andreas Lake , after which the geologic fault was originally named. The east side of

1968-459: The surname(s) of the sole trader or partners, or the legal name of a company. The Companies Registration Office publishes a searchable register of such business names. In Japan , the word yagō ( 屋号 ) is used. In Colonial Nigeria , certain tribes had members that used a variety of trading names to conduct business with the Europeans. Two examples were King Perekule VII of Bonny , who

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2016-514: The target of a buyout by Republic Airlines , which was finalized on October 1, 1980, for $ 38.5 million. Minneapolis -based Republic had formed in July 1979 via the merger of North Central Airlines and Southern Airways , the first under airline deregulation . Republic was acquired by Northwest Airlines in 1986 , which merged into Delta Air Lines in 2010 . The original headquarters were in two buildings in downtown San Mateo, California , on

2064-404: The term peninsula in a geographical sense technically refers to the entire San Francisco Peninsula, in local jargon, "The Peninsula" does not include the city of San Francisco. In 1795, Governor Diego de Borica gave José Darío Argüello a Spanish land grant known as Rancho de las Pulgas . This rancho was the largest grant on the peninsula consisting of 35,260 acres (142.7 km ). As

2112-469: The term trade name to refer to "doing business as" (DBA) names. In most U.S. states now, however, DBAs are officially referred to using other terms. Almost half of the states, including New York and Oregon , use the terms assumed business name or assumed name ; nearly as many, including Pennsylvania , use the term fictitious name . For consumer protection purposes, many U.S. jurisdictions require businesses operating with fictitious names to file

2160-404: The western U.S. merged to form Air West : The initial Air West fleet included Boeing 727-100s, Douglas DC-9s, Fairchild F-27s, and Piper Navajos. The first new addition to the Air West fleet was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30, which had been ordered by Bonanza Air Lines. Hungry for another adventure in the airline industry, TWA 's former owner Howard Hughes sought the airline in 1968, and

2208-581: The whole of the Peninsula (mostly water pumping stations connected to the Hetch Hetchy Valley on which San Francisco has a permanent leasehold) – thus, most of the larger communities in San Mateo County are de facto suburbs of San Francisco, with the neighboring communities of Pacifica, Daly City, Broadmoor, Colma, South San Francisco, Half Moon Bay, San Bruno, and Brisbane being immediate suburbs. The remaining suburban area of

2256-506: Was featured unconventionally below the front passenger windows. This livery was devised by the southern California design firm of Mario Armond Zamparelli , following the crash of Flight 706 in June 1971, caused by a mid-air collision with a U.S. Marine Corps F-4B jet fighter near Duarte , California. In late 1971, the company launched a new marketing campaign which included new colors and repainted planes. The cabin windows also had

2304-553: Was known as Captain Pepple in trade matters, and King Jubo Jubogha of Opobo , who bore the pseudonym Captain Jaja . Both Pepple and Jaja would bequeath their trade names to their royal descendants as official surnames upon their deaths. In Singapore , there is no filing requirement for a "trading as" name, but there are requirements for disclosure of the underlying business or company's registered name and unique entity number. In

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