Emery To Menlo to UPS To Gone:
1981 -- Emery Airfreight opens North American Sortation Center at Dayton International Airport. Processed 900,000 pounds of freight. There were 350 employees.
1989 -- C.F. Inc. buys Emery Airfreight, renaming it Emery Worldwide. The sorting hub processes 300 million pounds of freight.
1990 -- Emery Worldwide Airlines headquarters moved from California to Dayton, bringing 600 more jobs.
1996 -- 100,000-square-foot logistics complex opened, bringing employment up to 2,126. Processed 1.1 million pounds of freight.
1998 -- Processed 1.2 million pounds of freight with 4,207 employees. Total payroll was $160 million. At its height the operations included six miles of conveyor belts; 80 flights moved 3.5 million pounds a day.
Feb. 16, 2000 -- Emery Flight 17 crashes in Sacramento, Calil., killing all three crew members.
2001 -- Emery grounds its airline in face of an FAA investigation into its cargo operations after a cargo plane crashed in California.
October 2004 -- CNF sells its air business, now called Menlo Forwarding to UPS.
Feb. 24, 2006 -- UPS announces it is shutting down its Dayton sorting hub.
Information courtesy of Dayton Daily News