Dash 8: The Piedmont Story

Great production on this video

Beauty of a story. I promise I am adding a task to have a Piedmont livery to the one I am making in MSFS.

I spent 5 years as a flight attendant for Piedmont based out of Roanoke. It was nice seeing some familiar faces.

And the old Dash 8

Why do regional carriers always have ugly flight attendants, either fat, overweight or elderly, I mean are they rejects that they can’t get a real FA job on real airline and fly on real airplanes ? It seems that way, for example whats up with this fat lady with a mole on her face talking about losing weight and laying her big body on row nine because she’s too lazy to walk in the airport. Tip lady, you will lose a lot of weight if you walk! I mean, she should be ashamed of herself. She had a lot of nerve to be on camera to talk about her weight ….Meanwhile the other FA with racon eyes and zits ….thats so low class ..can’t you carriers hire pretty and handsome people?

Can't believe I'm just now watching this, but I do miss the Dash 8! As a kid I regularly made flights from BHM to PGV through CLT. My dad's side of the family living in Greenville, NC. Flying on a Dash 8 meant I was almost to my grandmother. It will always hold that special memory for me.

Thanks for making this! It really helps give this new guy a sense of Piedmont history!

Holy shit. My dad was the airport manager of the salisbury airport for about 26 years. Was not expecting that. Grew up on that airport watching these the dash 8.

My North Carolina license plates are Piedmont, one is B767PA & the other is DHC8PA! I worked on a lot here in Greensboro & Raleigh. Miss those planes. Now all I work on is 767-200 & 300’s.

These beautiful machines are just as iconic in Norway also, as well as the twin otters and dash-7 that served before them

Traveled frequently in the mid '80s SBY - DCA always with DHC-7s and 8s. Very enjoyable

My mom and I got to fly a Piedmont Dash 8 from CLT-AGS in its final days. And I flew an Air Canada Jazz one from BWI - YYZ. Glad I got to participate in some aviation history!

What a lovely film! Thanks for downloading. Have flown the Dash 8 as a passanger a number of times in Canada (always in the winter; even experienced an aborted take off due to a low oil pressure indication. It fault turned out to be a faulty light) and absolutely love the aeroplane!

Why do you state they fly the last dash 8?….you understand that they are still flying with different airlines?

My right ear loved this video

I’m so confused which Piedmont Airlines this is is it the original one, the US Air one, or something else? My relatives started Piedmont Aviation Winston-Salem NC and we started with DC-3s not Dash 8s. Dash 8s are too modern Piedmont was started after ww2. Piedmont was also operating jets in the 70s so this video is weird. Yes they were operating prop aircraft still but they were not dash 8s I think they were YS-11s. I bet this video is talking about us air before the merger but still don’t call it Piedmont because at this time it was us air. I hate us air with every fiber in my being for the merger which my great uncle did not approve of and he started Piedmont Airlines. Long live the Pacemaker.

Replace the Dash-8 with the new Q-400!

The Dash 8's manufacturer, de Havilland Canada, now has a sister company based near Victoria, B.C. called Viking Air, which is doing a great job in keeping alive the earlier aircraft the former built over the years, especially the DHC-2 Beaver and the DHC-6 Twin Otter.

I used to enjoy flying out of Avoca in Dash-8s, Harrisburg too. So much more comfortable than the regional jets. I could actually stand up in the Dash, not stooped over and claustrophobic like the smaller jets.

TO THIS AIR PASSAGE CEO THRU STAFF, THOUGH A WRITTEN HISTORY, THIS DASH 8 FLIGHT SERIES IS STLL #1!!

I got to say dash 8s are my fav 😊 there like heaven for passegers.😘 🤗 if your looking for a peacefull quite comfy flight I could easy be a flight attendant on one of these for a person who don't like noise it's perfect.😊 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

Well Air Croatia has a fleet of 8 planes
Model Dash 8
so if you fly in europe with air croatia you will always sit in a Dash 8

We still fly the Dash 8 at air New Zealand...she is a classy, classy girl. Loved by passengers over the ATR... Capable, powerful and can get through the weather.

She's a beautiful airplane.

This thing has the best glide ratio of any airliner I've ever seen. You could lose both engines at FL250 over PDX and land at SEA!

I thought this Airline Stopped Operating!

SBY maintenance will always be special for me. It was my start in aviation. Awesome people I worked with. Cool to see some familiar faces. Feb 2005 to fall 2006.

This video kicks ass.

Piedmont Airlines " We bring the adventure back into aviation "

Your sound mixing needs some work. The volume is all over the place. Otherwise a good video.

Just watched this, amazing job, amazing tribute! I flew the Dash-8 for YV, but we had several of HA’s old birds, including 449. The Dash-8 was the best flying experience I’ve had, and it’s in no small part due to the people who flew and worked on it, the communities it severed, that comradeship is unmatched in any other realm of the US airline Industry IMHO.

Thanks for making and sharing this!

Well done tribute to the Dash8. The employee group were great people. As for Farrow , I once received a handwritten personal card from him with a dollar taped inside of it. He was such an employee friendly President, well maybe when it came to his secretary. 🙄

Very cool.. As a agent, I worked gate and ground in LGA, PHL and ISP on the Dash. I have to say, airline industry life is very different in many ways without these aircrafts.

If only i had been around for the dash 7 flying in and out of CHO

We were lucky enough to experience a Connecting route with the Dash-8

my right ear got tired of the mono audio

A truly amazing aircraft. It will forever have special place in my heart. Thank you Piedmont!

You just felt a sense of nostalgia whenever you flew on a dash. It was definitely noisy, but it was so calming.

The dash 8 hold a special place in my heart, as a kid my mom was a flight attendant on the dash 8 based out of New Bern North Carolina and my father was a dash 8 captain based out of Roanoke Virginia. This is my all time favorite plane over anything, it always kept my family safe and ensured a safe return home every time. I remember many time landing on a dash 8 in Hilton Head or Charlotte while my dad was flying and me with my family were in the back. I will NEVER forget the dash 8.

I go from bhx to gla on a dash 8 400 pretty regularly. Love the sound and feel of it, 1 engine taxi is cool and frankly I know it’s a short flight but it’s better air conditioned than a virgin 747 on a long flight! The pilots seem to be actually flying it too in bad weather etc and I find that reassuring on a proven aircraft

That's not the guy who leads the IHRA!

Pfft cream of the crop is and was the YS-11

I would have been heart broken if i was at this company

So sad to see it go :(

What a wonderful tribute to the staff who made the Airline and “the Dash” which is a great Aircraft

Remember these beauties when I worked OAJ and HHI

I like this but it's hard too watch with headphones because of the weird panning stuff...

My home is a few miles from a regional airport in east Tennessee. I miss watching the Dash 8 puttering by on its way in from Charlotte. It had a distinct "hum"--you could always tell when a Dash 8 was flying overhead without having to look up in the sky.

I got something in my eye is all.