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Editor’s Note: This is the 373rd in a series of articles recalling vanished Huntington scenes. HUNTINGTON — As a pilot flying corporate-owned airplanes in the 1970s, David R. Mueller sensed a business opportunity. Mueller realized that the airlines were cutting back or eliminating their services to short-haul markets so he teamed up with his father, Raymond, and two other men to start their own airline to fill that gap. Founded in 1977, Comair Inc. quickly grew from a family-owned business with three small planes to one of the largest and most profitable regional airlines in the cou...