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The company is owned by Victory Park Capital, a Chicago-based investment firm. Silver Airways is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale (Florida) with a maintenance facility based at Gainesville Regional Airport in Florida. The airline operates under a principal code share and alliance agreement with United Airlines.
I soloed there on my 16th birthday & got my Private license one year later on my 17th. This would have been July, 1957 & 1958. At that time the airport was owned by Harry Calvin, a 707 flight engineer with Pan Am based in New York. Rick Decker operated the airport, having moved up there when Westfield Airport closed.