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1957
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3 May 1957 599 Results for year ending December 31, 19S4:120,000 passengers; 36,000 freight and mail ton-miles flown; total ton-miles, 944,000. Nolater figures available. Caspar Air Charters and Agencies, Ltd., isa charter operator but for several years has been operating scheduled services around Lake Vic-toria in association with East African Airways. Services are now operated from Entebbe toBukoba, Geita and Mwanza. Head Office: Nairobi, Kenya.Executives: E. B. Fielden, managing director; J. E. F. Wilkins, F. P. Nelson Grade, D. Lead,directors. Fleet: D.H.89 on scheduled services.Traffic statistics not available. C.A.T.—see Civil Air Transport. Catalina Airlines. Little is known about thisairline except that it operates hourly services from Los Angeles International Airport toCatalina Island. In 1931 Catalina Island began to receive air transport when WilmingtonCatalina Airline opened a service from Wil- mington, Cal. Two Douglas Dolphin amphi-bians were used and 7,878 passengers were carried in the first year.Head Office: Beverley Hills, Cal., U.S.A. Fleet: two Dove. Cathay Pacific Airways, Ltd., founded in1946 and reorganized in 1948, when 80 per cent of the stock was acquired by Butterfieldand Swire and associated shipping companies, and Australian National Airways. Further re-organization gave the Butterfield and Swire group 52 per cent, Peninsular and OrientalSteam Navigation Co. 30 per cent, Australian National Airways 14 per cent and The BorneoCo., Ltd., 4 per cent. The Hong Kong gov- ernment, in 1949, gave Cathay Pacific Airwaysrights for the operation of routes south of Hong Kong. Routes are operated to Bangkok, Cal-cutta, 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. Onorder: one DC-6B (1958). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:43,322 passengers; 546,011 kg of freight and 112,972 kg of mail carried; 8,018,716 ton-kmflown; 161 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. issuccessor to the war-time Southern Rhodesia Air Services and the pre-war Rhodesia andNyasaland Airways. Operating some 15,000 miles of routes, the corporation is now the air-line of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasa- land. In addition to domestic services and theRhodesian Viscount and Zambezi coach ser- vice to London C.A.A. operate services to theUnion of South Africa, Kenya, Tanganyika, the Belgian Congo and Portuguese East Africa.Head Office: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Executives: P. J. B. Wimbush, general man-ager; K. H. Greager, engineering manager; R. A. Bourlay, operations manager; R. P.Hartley, secretary/chief accountant; H. D. Gray, traffic manager; W. L. Stedman, salesmanager. Fleet: five Viscount 700D, five Viking, fiveDC-3, five Beaver. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:169,446 passengers; 1,249,444 kg of freight and 574,121 kg of mail carried; 14,624,918 ton-kmflown; total costs (year ended March 31st, 1956), £2,320,804; total revenue (same period),£2,344,414; 1,406 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 3,299 serving 33 cities in Texas,Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. Head Office: Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A.Executives: K. H. Kahle, president; F. E. Howe, executive vice-president/treasurer;A. S. Aldridge, vice-president traffic and sales; Edgar Keltner Jnr., secretary.Fleet: 11 DC-3. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:107,119 passengers; 325,140 kg of freight and 248,930 kg of mail; 6,629,217 ton-miles flown;total costs, £1,207,356; total revenue, £1,207,889; 406 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, Zurich, Brussels, Vilno and Warsaw.Head Office: Prague, Czechoslovakia. Executives: Josef Prochazka, general manager;Al. Palichleb, deputy general manager. Fleet: 21 DC-3, seven Li-2, eight 11-12. Onorder: 10 11-14 (1957), three Tu-104 (1957). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:217,520 passengers; 2,075,737 kg of freight and 3,439,248 kg of mail carried; revenue ton-km flown 11,552,412; total costs £4,643,250; total revenue, £3,292,550; 1,210 staff. Chicago Airways Inc., operates daily ser- vices, under VFR conditions only, from Chicago Midway Airport via O'Hare Airport to Northbrook, Libertyville, Waukegan, Kenosha, Racine and Milwaukee. The company carries passengers and air express. Head Office: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. No other details are known. Chicago Helicopter Airways, Inc., hasauthorization to operate helicopters to any point within 50 miles of Midway Airport, Chicago,and has since 1949, as Helicopter Air Service, Inc., been operating shuttle mail servicesbetween the roof of the main Chicago post office and Chicago Municipal Airport. Thisshuttle is operated at high frequency and, in addition, a number of mail flights are made onweekdays over three circuits, each of which serves a large area. Under its new title thecompany began scheduled passenger services on November 12, 1956, between O'Hare andMidway Airports, Chicago. Head Office: Chicago, 111., U.S.A.Executives: John S. Gleason, Jnr., president/ treasurer; C. W. Moore, executive vice-presi-dent; John C. Brogan, vice-president/secretary; Robert S. Angstadt, vice-president operations;Robert B. Kiel, asst. secretary/treasurer. Fleet: three S-55, six Bell 47G; on order: threeS-58 (1957). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:876 passengers; 1,381,954 kg of mail carried; total costs, £226,390; total revenue, £225,483:74 staff. Cia. Itan de Transports Aereos, was foundedin 1947 to operate all-cargo services between the main Brazilian cities. Operations betweenSao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro began in 1948 and by 1954 the company operated more than3,700 miles of routes. Itau was based on Sao Paulo and used a fleet of C-46s. There is norecent news of this company and it is not known whether it is still in operation. CINTA—Cia. Nacional de Turismo Aereo (Chilean Airlines), is a new company operating American Airlines, the world's largest air passenger carriers, still operate a fleet of more than 70 Con- vair CV-240s, one of which is seen here over Niagara Falls.
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