A comparison of the small regional carrier Cape Air to the old television series Wings, which focused on the often humorous doings of a small Cape Cod-based regional airline, is inevitable. In truth, there are some similarities. It is a small operation, by today’s regional airline standards, based in Cape Cod at Barnstable Municipal Airport in Hyannis, Mass. But unlike the fictional television show, Cape Air is unlikely to be canceled by network TV executives and, according to founder and president Daniel Wolf, is doing quite well.
Wolf, a Quaker-educated product of Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, started Cape Air in 1989 with a pair of Cessna 402Cs on a Massachusetts route connecting Boston and Provincetown. It was a leap of faith for Wolf, who completed his higher education with a degree in political philosophy from Wesleyan University. But the timing was good, and armed with a pilot’s love of aviation and a second certificate in airframe and powerplant maintenance from the Quaker School of Aeronautics, he launched Cape Air.
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