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FLIGHT, 20 April 1956 475 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY ... network and routes from Urumchi to Alma-Ata, and from Peking through Mongolia to Irkutsk, as part of the Aeroflot routes to andfrom Moscow. Head Office: Peking, China.Fleet: 11-14, Li-2, C-46, Convair 240. i. Misrair S.A.E. — Egyptian Airlines wasfounded as Misr Airwork in 1932. The present name was taken in 1949 and all the capital isnow Egyptian-owned. Scheduled services were begun in 1933 and the company now operatesan extensive network of services in the Middle East and to Europe. Further route extensionsare contemplated, including one between Cairo and London.Head Office: Cairo, Egypt. Executives: Air Commodore M. S. El Miligi,general manager; A. H. Mokbel, acting general manager; M. F. Raaft, deputy general manager(commercial); H. Tewfik, deputy general man- ager (technical); Capt. H. Shams, operationsmanager. Fleet: three Viscount 700, seven Viking, oneBeech D.18S. Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS:77,050 passengers; 1,682 tons of freight and 67 tons of mail carried; 5,674,106 ton-krnflown; 1,190 staff. Financial details not avail- able. Mohawk Airlines, Inc., was founded in 1945as an intrastate carrier with the title Robinson Airlines. The company took its present namein 1952 and is now operating about 1,300 miles of routes in New York, New Jersey and NewEngland. During 1954 Mohawk operated heli- copter services between Newark and Liberty/Monticello. An S-55 was used but this ven- ture was short-lived. As Swissair's ConvairMetropolitans are delivered this year the com- pany's CV-240s will be delivered to MohawkAirlines. Head Office: Ithaca, N.Y., U.S.A.Executives: E. Victor Underwood, chairman; R. E. Peach, president; J. R. Carver, vice-president/secretary; C. A. Benscoter, vice- president operations; W. D. Bosworth,treasurer. Fleet: 11 DC-3, four Convair 240; on order,seven Convair 240. Results for year ended December 31st, 195S:276,477 passengers; 1,048 tons of freight and 303 tons of mail carried; 5,076,880 ton-milesflown; total costs £1,539,631; total revenue £1,506,302; 464 staff. NAB—see Navegacao Aerea Brasileira. National Airlines, Inc., known as Airline ofthe Stars was founded as National Airlines System in October 1934 as a regional operatorwith a 142 mile route between St. Petersburg and Daytona Beach. The airline now operates anetwork extending from New York and Wash- ington down the eastern seaboard to Tampaand Miami. Routes from Jacksonville and Tampa stretch west to New Orleans, andHavana is served by routes from New York, Tampa and Miami. Tbroughplane serviceslink New Orleans with California. For some time National operated experimental helicopterservices in the Miami area with an S-55. Head Office: Miami, Florida, U.S.A. One of the gaily red, white and blue painted Boeing Stratocruisers of Northwest Airlines. Executives: G. T. Baker, president; J. C.Brawner, vice president/treasurer; R.P. Fore- man, secretary; L. W. Dymond, asst. vice presi-dent operations; W. A. Perry, vice president/ general sales manager; H. K. Pike, asst. vicepresident maintenance and engineering. Fleet: 10 Lodestar, 12 Convair 340, four DC-6,eight DC-6B, four DC-7; on order, six Convair 440 (1956), four DC-7B (1957), six DC-8(1959-60), 23 Lockheed Electra (1959-61). Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS:1,292,675 passengers; 8,640 tons of freight and 4,546 tons of mail carried; 100,954,618 ton-miles flown; total costs, £18,308,909; total revenue, £15,570,021; 3,503 staff. National Greek Airlines T.A.E. was foundedin July 1951 by the amalgamation of T.A.E., Hellenic Airlines and the smaller A.M.E.Following financial difficulties the company was taken over by the Greek Government in June1955 and at present its future is somewhat uncertain. T.A.E. operates domestic servicesand to Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Italy, France and the United Kingdom.Head Office: Athens, Greece. Executives: A.V-M, N. Averoff, president; S.Damaskinos, commercial manager; J. Papalet- sos, financial manager; C. Dannis, technicalmanager. Fleet: one DC-4, 14 DC-3, one FairchildArgus. Results for year ended December 31st, 195S:144,291 passengers; 2,712 tons of freight and 261 tons of mail carried; 5,916,377 ton-kmflown; 815 staff. Financial details not available. Navegacao Aerea Brasileira, NAB., was established in 1939 and began operations in1941 over a coastal route linking Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza. In 1948, when the routemileage had reached nearly 5,000, financial difficulties caused the suspension of operations.The company began work again in 1951 and at present NAB serves a coastal route fromRio to Vitoria, and an inland route to Belo Horizonte.Head Office: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Executives: Cmdr. G. X. de Oliveira, generalmanager. Fleet: DC-3.Traffic statistics not available. New York Airways, Inc., was formed in1949 with the object of operating scheduled helicopter services in the New York area. Mailoperations between the New York airports were inaugurated on October 15th, 1952. Mail ser-vices were subsequently opened to suburban The prototype Boeing 707; a total of 88 has been ordered by eight operators to date. areas, and passenger services Unking New YorkInternational, La Guardia and Newark airports began in the summer of 1953. In addition toits airport links the company now serves the New York area, New Jersey and Connecticut.Head Office: La Guardia Airport, New York. Executives: R. L. Cummings, Jnr., president;H. Brock, vice-president; W. W. Hogan, trea- surer; M. K. Skadden, secretary.Fleet: five Sikorsky S-55; on order, eight S-58 (1956-57). Results for year ended December 31st, 19S5:23,967 passengers; 1,116 tons of freight and 706 tons of mail carried; 82,948 ton-milesflown; financial details not available; 128 staff. New Zealand National Airways Corporation—NAC. This company was founded by Act of Parliament in 1945 to take over and expandthe operations of Air Travel (N.Z.), Ltd., Cook Strait Airways, Ltd., and Union Airways ofNew Zealand, Ltd. Following the change of Government in 1949 an attempt was made tosell NAC but this was not successful. NAC operates over some 3,000 miles of routes inand between North and South Islands. Head Office: Wellington, C.I., New Zealand.Executives: Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman; J. J. Busch, general manager; H. C. Walker, opera-tions manager; W. J. Jennings, commercial manager. Fleet: 28 DC-3, four Heron, six D.H.89, threeD.H.83; on order, three Viscount 800 series. Results for year ended December 31st, 1954:379,079 passengers; 2,649,000 freight ton-km and 278,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km16,023,000; 1,093 staff. Financial details not available. North Central Airlines, Inc., was foundedin 1944 as Wisconsin Central Airlines. Approval for the operation of routes from Chicago tocities in Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Upper Michigan was given in 1946 and opera-tions were begun with Lockheed Electras in February 1948. The company adopted its pre-sent name at the end of 1952, now operates about 2,700 miles of routes in the Great Lakesarea, and is awaiting C.A.B. approval for the purchase of Lake Central Airlines, whichwould extend its route system east as far as Pittsburgh. Head Office: Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.Executives: H. N. Carr, president; B. Sweet, secretary/treasurer; F. N. Buttomer, vice-president traffic and sales; A. D. Niemeyer, vice-president operations: R. H. Benido, vice-president maintenance and engineering. Fleet: 20 DC-3. Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS:430,445 passengers; 298,227 express ton-miles and 139,697 mail ton-miles flown; 825 staff.Other details not available. Northeast Airlines serves New England andhas routes from that area to New York and Montreal, while its projected operations includeservices to Quebec, Washington and Florida. The company was founded by the Boston andMaine and Maine Central Railroads as Boston- Maine Airways, and services were begun be-tween Boston and Waterville on August 11th, 1933. The present name was taken in 1940.Mergers with Capita Airlines and Delta Air Lines have been considered but have not takenplace. Head Office: Boston, Mass., U.S.A.Executives: P. F. Collins, chairman; G. E. Gardner, president (portrait, p. 483); A. A.Lane, vice-president operations; D. W. H. Mackinnon, vice-president maintenance andengineering; H. Heard, treasurer. Fleet: 12 DC-3, six Convair 240; on order, 10
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