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466 FLIGHT, 20 April 1956 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY... Caribbean Atlantic Airlines, Inc.—Caribairwas founded in 1939, and in June that year took over the operations of its predecessor, Powel-son Air Service, which had started scheduled services late in 1938. The company nowoperates services within Puerto Rico and to the Dominican Republic and the Virgin Islands.Head Office: San Juan, Puerto Rico. Executives: D. Trigo, president; J. Sierra, vice-president operations; R. B. Forrest, vice-presi- dent traffic.Fleet: three DC-3. Results for year ended December 31st, 1954: 120,000 passengers; 36,000 freight and mail ton-miles flown; total ton-miles, 944,000; other details not available. Caspar Air Charters and Agencies, Ltd., is a charter operator but for several years has been operating scheduled services around Lake Vic- toria in association with East African Airways. Scheduled Lake circuits starting and ending at Entebbe are flown twice weekly in each direc- tion. These serve Jinia, Tororo, Kisumu, Macalder, Musoma, Kiabakari, Mwanza, Geita and Bukoba. In addition there is a weekly Entebbe - Bukoba - Mwanza service. D.H.89s are used on these flights. The company recently absorbed Noon and Pearce Air Charter of Nairobi, thereby considerably increasing its fleet. Head Office: Nairobi, Kenya. Executives: E. B. Fielden, managing director; J. E. F. Wilkins, F. P. Nelson Grade, D. Lead, directors. Fleet: five D.H.89, two Anson 1, one Gemini, one Messenger, two Bonanza, one Leopard Moth, one Tiger Moth, two Autocrat, one Cessna 180, one Piper PA-18, one Chrislea Super Ace. Traffic statistics not available. . -..•_ „ CA.T.—see Civil Air Transport Catalina Airlines. Little is known about this airline except that it operates services from Los Angeles International Airport and Los Angeles Burbank to Catalina Island with a total frequency of six daily flights in each direc- tion. In 1931 Catalina Island began to receive air transport when Wilmington Catalina Air- line opened a service from Wilmington, Cal. Two Douglas Dolphin amphibians were used and 7,878 passengers were carried in the first year. Head Office: Beverly Hills, Cal., U.S.A. Fleet: two Dove. Cathay Pacific Airways, Ltd., founded in 1946 and reorganized in 1948, when 80 per cent of the stock was acquired by Butterfield and Swire and associated shipping companies, and Australian National Airways. In 1951 a further re-organization gave the Butterfield and Swire group 60 per cent and A.N.A. 40 per cent. The Hong Kong government, in 1949, gave Cathay Pacific rights for the operation of all routes south of Hong Kong with Hong Kong Airways receiving rights for services north of there. Routes are operated to Bangkok, Calcutta, Labuan, Manila, Rangoon, Saigon and Singapore. Head Office: Hong Kong. Executives: J. A. Blackwood, chairman; W. C. G. Knowles, managing director; D. R. Y. Bluck, traffic manager; C. F. Moore, operations manager; K. W. Steele, flight superintendent; J. T. Gething, chief engineer. Fleet: one DC-6, one DC-4, one DC-3.Results for year ended December 31st, 7955: 30,849 passengers; 504.67 tons of freight and94.3 tons of mail carried; 4,284,963 ton-miles flown; 142 staff. Financial details not available. Causa—see Compania Aeronautica Uru-guaya, S.A. Central African Airways Corporation, formedin 1946 by the Governments of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, C.A.A.is successor to the war - time Southern Rhodesia Air Services and the pre - warRhodesia and Nyasaland Airways. Operat- ing some 15,000 miles of routes, the corpora-tion is now the airline of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. In addition todomestic services and the Zambezi coach service to London C.A.A. operate services tothe Union of South Africa, Kenya, Tangan- yika and Portuguese East Africa. The Languedoc "Beiteddine" used by Air Liban. Head Office: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.Executives: P. J. B. Wimbush, general manager; K. H. Greager, engineering manager;R. A. Bourlay, operations manager; R. P. Hartley, secretary /chief accountant; H. D.Gray, traffic manager. Fleet: 10 Viking, five DC-3, six Beaver; onorder, five Viscount 700D (April/May 1956).Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS: 151,507 passengers; 1,309 tons of freight and611 tons of mail carried; 8,809,159 ton-miles flown; total costs (year ended March 31st,1955), £2,040,777; total revenue (same period), £2,017,054; 1,132 staff. Central Airlines, Inc., was founded as anintrastate operator in Oklahoma in 1944. The company's first inter-state operations wereauthorized in 1946 and operations, with Beech Bonanzas, were inaugurated in September1949. DC-3 operations began in 1950 and all Bonanzas were withdrawn during the follow-ing year. At present the airline has a route mileage of about 1,000 in Oklahoma, Texas,Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas. Head Office: Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.Executives: K. H. Kahle, president; F. E. Howe, executive vice-president/treasurer; J. L.Blackwell, vice-president operations; A. S. Aldridge, general traffic and sales manager.Fleet: nine DC-3. Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS:94,282 passengers; 239 tons of freight and 291 tons of mail; 1,610,648 ton-miles flown; totalcosts, £1,089,007; total revenue, £1,124,394, 367 staff. Central Northern Airways Ltd. see Trans-Air, Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie-CSA is the CzechState airline which was founded in 1946 as successor to the C.S.A. established in 1923 andwhich, until the war, operated in competition with C.L.S. The airline now operates domes-tic services and to Belgrade, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Moscow,Paris, Prague, Sofia, Stockholm, Vienna, Vilno and Warsaw. Head Office: Prague, Czechoslovakia.Executives: not available. Fleet: DC-3, 11-12.Traffic statistics not available. Civil Air Transport was founded by Maj-Gen. Chennault, leader of the A. V. G. Flying Tigers, and Whiting Willauer on October 25th,1946, as C.N.R.R.A. Air Transport for the carriage of famine relief supplies in China.From 1947 commercial loads were allowed on return flights. After a series of moves forcedby the Communist advance through China C.A.T. moved to Formosa in 1950. The air-line, in addition to charter work in various parts of the world, operates round-the-island pas-senger and cargo services and international flights to Japan, South Korea, Manila, HongKong and Bangkok. Head Office: Taipei, Taiwan (Formosa).Executives: H. L. Grundy, president /general manager; C. J. Rosbert, vice-president/asst.general manager. Fleet: two DC-4, 23 Curtiss C-46, five DC-3,two PBY Catalina. Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS:103,577 passengers; 17,232 tons of freight and 174 tons of mail carried; 4,866,013 ton-milesflown; 2,598 staff. Financial details not available. Colonial Airlines, Inc., was founded in 1928as Canadian Colonial Airlines to operate mail services between New York and Montreal.The company adopted its present title on May 1st, 1942. Colonial operates 2,700 miles ofroutes unking the U.S.A. with Montreal and Ottawa and also a route to Bermuda. Follow-ing a two-year controversy, the company is now to be merged with Eastern Air Lines.Head Office: New York, U.S.A. Executives: B. T. Dykes, president; J. E.Reinke, vice-president traffic and sales; L. O. Cameron, vice-president/secretary; N. D.MacDonald, treasurer. Fleet: eight DC-3, five DC-4.Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS: 451,479 passengers; 1,368 tons of freight and646 tons of mail carried; 13,292,797 ton-miles One of Central African Airways' fleet of de Hayilland Beavers.
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