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3 May 1957 605 Jugoslovenski Aerotransport — JAT was founded in 1946 and is now the sole Jugoslavairline; it is completely state-owned. Domestic services are operated as well as routes toAthens, Cairo, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Munich, Paris, Vienna and Zurich.Head Office: Belgrade, Jugoslavia. Executives: M. Simovic, general manager; M.Rakic, traffic director; R. Zivanovic, finance director; R. Radojkovic, technical director.Fleet: 13 DC-3, one Convair 340, one Convair 440. On order: six 11-14.Results for year ended December 31, 1955: 102,365 passengers; 321 tons of freight and234 tons of mail carried; 4,640,000 revenue ton-km flown; 419 staff. Financial details notavailable. Kar-Air O/Y Karhumaki Airways is the air-line operating offshoot of the long-established Finnish aircraft manufacturing, maintenanceand charter organization. Scheduled operations were begun in 1950 between Helsinki andJoensuu, using two D.H.89s bought from Fin- nish Air Lines. In the following year furtherinternal routes were operated as well as one to Sundsvall in Sweden and Lodestars were thenused. The company's present routes are from Helsinki to Tampere; Helsinki to Joensuu; andbetween Tampere and Stockholm. Head Office: Helsinki, Finland.Executives: U. Karhumaki, president; M. Pal- tnujoki, traffic manager; T. Karhumaki, tech-nical manager. Fleet: three DC-3, one Lodestar; on order: oneConvair 440 (1957). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:23,031 passengers: 17,003 kg of freight and 17,003 kg of mail carried; 531,602 ton-kmflown; 65 staff. Financial details not available. K.L.M.—sec Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maat-schappij. K.N.A.—see Korean National Airlines. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.(K.L.M.), the Dutch national airline, began operations in May 1920. A European networkwas established, and services to Java began in 1929. Services were begun in the West Indiesin 1935 and these continued throughout the war, so the company can claim 37 years ofcontinuous operation. With a present unduplicated route mileageof about 140,000 miles, K.L.M. has a network of European routes, a West Indies network,and routes between Europe and North, Central and South America; South Africa; the Near,Middle and Far East; and Australia. For more than 30 years K.L.M. was directed by itsfounder, die late Dr. Albert Plesman. The majority of the company's capital is now heldby the Netherlands Government. Head Office: The Hague, Holland.Executives: I. A. Aler, president; M. J. van der Ploeg, deputy president; F. Besancon, L. H.Slotemaker, J. van der Wiel, executive vice- presidents. Fleet: 10 L-749, 18 L-1049, six DC-6, oneDC-6A, seven DC-6B, six DC-4, 14 Convair 340, seven Convair 240, 14 DC-3 (three char-tered to "De Kroonduif"). On order: 10 DC-7C (1957), nine Viscount 803 (1957), twoFokker Friendship (1959/60), eight DC-8 (1960), 12 Electra (1959/60).Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 792,000 passengers; 23,091,000 kg of freightand 2,627,000 kg of mail carried; total ton-km flown 234,700,000; total costs, £39,755,639;total revenue, £41,917,293; 16,009 staff. Korean National Airlines was founded underthe Ministry of Transport in 1947, and operated routes radiating from Seoul with StinsonVoyagers. DC-3s were introduced in 1950 shortly before the Korean war stopped com-mercial operations, which were resumed in 1952. TTie company now operates DC-3services within South Korea and a DC-4 service between Seoul and Hong Kong. Thecompany plans to open a Korea - U.S.A. route via Honolulu. Head Office: Seoul, South Korea.Executives: Y. W. Shinn, president; E. Locker, traffic and sales manager; J. H. Tyler, opera-tions director; M. McCormick, chief engineer. Fleet: DC-4 and three DC-3.Traffic statistics not available. ; Kuwait Airways, Ltd., was founded in 1953as Kuwait National Airways, the present name Flugfelag Islands, now trading as Icelandair, operates two Douglas DC-4s. "Solfaxi" is seen here approaching Reykjavik. This airline recently purchased two new Vickers Viscounts from the British independent airline Hunting-Clan. having been adopted in 1955. Services areoperated to Bahrein, Abadan, Basra, Jerusalem and Beirut. The company is an associate ofB.O.A.C. Head Office: Kuwait.Executives: A. S. Alkhalid, chairman; A. R. Mishri, manager; L. C. Giles, resident adviser.Fleet: two DC-3. Results for year ended December 31, 1955: 15,809 passengers; 551 tons of freight and8.5 tons of mail carried; 75 staff. Other figures not available. LACSA—see Lineas Aereas Costarricenses, S.A. LADE—see Lineas Aereas del Estado. LAI—see Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A.— LAI. Lake Air Taxi Service Inc., operatesscheduled services between Chicago and Michigan City and Benton Harbour. Passen-gers and freight are carried and non-routine landings will be made by arrangement at inter-mediate points or beyond the normal terminals. Head Office: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.Executive: W. Barnett, president. Fleet: Piper Apache, Twin Beech. Lake Central Airlines, Inc., was founded inMay 1949 as Turner Airlines to take over and operate the feeder services awarded to, but notimplemented by, Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corporation in 1947. Lake Central beganservices in November 1949 and works 1,500 miles of routes in the states between and tothe south of Lakes Erie and Michigan. In 1955 employees of the airline bought thecompany's stock. Head Office: Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.Executives: Dr. R. B. Stewart, chairman; G. Hicks, president; L. W. Hartman, executivevice-president/treasurer; R. W. Clifford, vice- president-operations; D. S. Getchell, vice-president traffic and sales. Fleet: 10 DC-3. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:135,720 passengers; 1,041,401 kg of express and 200,162 kg of mail carried: 2.080.254 ton-miles flown; total costs, £998,097; total revenue, £981,481; 353 staff. LANICA—see Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua, S.A. LAV—see Linea Aeropostal Venezolana. Leavens Bros., Ltd., which operates pas-senger services between Leamington and Petee Island in Lake Erie, a distance of 22 miles, wasoriginally foTned in 1927. It was incorporated as Leaven Bros. Air Services in 1935 and wasreorganized under its present name in 1953. Head Office: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Executives: C. R. Leavens, president andgeneral manager; R. H. Leavens, vice-president; C. D. Leavens, secretary; R. O. Brown,treasurer. Fleet: two Cessna Crane.Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 3,428 passengers; 40,642 kg of freight and45,722 kg of mail carried; 1,997 ton-miles flown; total costs, £6,000; total revenue,£10,000; two staff. Lebanese International Airways operatessome scheduled services at low frequency between Beirut and Kuwait and also charterflights. Head Office: Beirut, Lebanon.Executive: A. Arida, president. Fleet: two C-46.30 staff. No other details available. Leeward Islands Air Transport Co.,operates low frequency services connecting Antigua with Montserrat, St. Kitts, Anguillaand San Juan, Puerto Rico. Head Otfice: St. John's, Antigua, B.W.I. Fleet: Piper Apache.No other details available. Liberian National Airways is a Government-owned airline which began operations in 1952. Internal services are operated from Robertsfieldand Monrovia to eight other points. Head Office: Robertsfield, Liberia.Executives: F. H. Syphert, president. Fleet: three DC-3. Linea Aerea Nacional — CHILE was founded in 1932 by the Chilean Governmentto take over Linea Aeropostal Santiago Arica. The original fleet consisted of three Ford Tri-motors. The company has developed services throughout the length of Chile and inter-national routes to Mendoza, Buenos Aires and Rio Grande in the Argentine; La Paz inBolivia; Lima and Tacna in Peru and Monte- video in Uruguay.Head Office: Santiago, Chile. Executives: A. Fernandez, president; E. Silva,secretary general; H. M. Sauvageot, business manager; A. Bermudez, technical manager.Fleet: three DC-6B, three Martin 2-0-2, 16 DC-3, one Electra. Results for year ended December 31, 19S5:195,376 passengers; 2.324 tons of freight and 114 tons of mail carried; 14,806,000 revenueton-km flown: total costs, £3,003,428; total revenue, £1,920,985; 1,380 staff. Linea Aerea TACA de Venezuela, C.A.,Founded in 1944 by TACA Airways S.A. and Venezuelan interests. Local services wereopened in 1945 and in 1950 TACA Airways disposed of its interest in the company. Twoyears later L.A.V. acquired outstanding stock
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