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&16 , FLIGHT, 3 May 1957 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . founded in 1931, as a Pan American WorldAirways' subsidiary and operates its services with aircraft leased from P.A.W.A.Head Office: Medellin, Colombia. Executives: E. Balluder, president; R. G.Ferguson, treasurer; J. A. Mannion, secretary. Fleet: Convair 240 leased fiom P.A.W.A,Traffic statistics not available. VARIG—see S.A. Empresa de ViacaoAcrea Rio Grandense. VASP—see Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo, S.A. Vsstlandske Luftfartselskap A/S. (West-Norway Airlines) was founded, mainly by Bergen shipping interests, as a private com-pany in 1947. Considerable charter work and ambulance flying is done, and since 1951 V.L.S.has operated scheduled flying-boat services over two routes, Bergen-Alesund-Molde-Kristian-sund-Tiondheim in summer and Bergen- Haugesund-Stavanger throughout the year. In June 1956 V.L.S. opened a landplaneroute Stavanger-Bergen-Trondheim and this route is flown throughout the year. This sum-mer Floroe is to be served as a call on the Bergen-Trondheim flying-boat route.Head Office: Bergen, Norway. Executives: S. Liby, managing director; A.Wagner Larsen, chief engineer; R. F. Rasmus- sen, chief pilot. Fleet: one Heron 2, two Sealand, two Seabee,Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 11,141 passengers; 5,623 kg of freight and40,500 kg of mail carried; 216,467 ton-km flown; 25 staff. Financial details of the year'soperations are not available. Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo, S.A.—VASP, wasfounded in 1934 and began scheduled opera- tions in 1935. Most of the company's stock isheld by the Sao Paulo city, State and Municipal Bank. Tne company operates over more than4,500 miles of domestic routes, and has no less than 60 flights a week in each directionbetween Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The airline flies both 2nd and 3rd class services.Head Office: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Executives: J. V. de Faria Lima, president;J. Castilho Cabral, vice-president; O. P. Pinto, director / executive. Fleet: 15 DC-3, 9 Scandja, one BeechcraftReported to be taking delivery of S.A.S.'s fleet of Scandias. In 1954 VASP carried more than 250,000 pas-sengers and flew more than 5,500,000 revenue ton-miles; 1,030 staff. West African Airways Corporation, an asso-ciate of B.O.A.C., was founded in 1946 by the West African territories of Nigeria, GoldCoast (now Ghana), Sierra Leone and the Gambia. Most of the company's network isin Nigeria but services extend as far west as Dakar and the unduplicated route mileage isabout 7,000. The Corporation developed ex- tensive second-class services with its formerfleet of Bristol 170s and, in fact, passengers on some routes are predominantly African.Head Office: Lagos, Nigeria. Executives: R. W. C. Baker-Beall, chairman;D. Malcolm Brown, general manager; R. R. R. Allen, chief engineer; A. A. Cooper, secretary/chief accountant; Capt. A. L. Greenacre, chief pilot; J. P. S. Bailey, traffic manager.Fleet: eight Heron, two Dove, two Bristol 170. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:52,327 passengers; 1,668,372 ton-miles flown; total optrating costs, £1.085,119; total trafficrevenue, £886,363; 1,090 staff. West Coast Airlines, Inc., was founded in1941 under the laws of the State of Washing- ton for the operation of passenger, mail andexpress services in the Pacific Coast area, but the C.A.B. held the application over until afterthe war and only granted certificates in 1946. The company took over Empire Air Lines in1952 and now operates 2,000 miles of routes in Washington, Oregon and Idaho.Head Office: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Executives: N. Bez, president; G. HamiltonBeasley, executive vice-president; R. A. Duwe, secretary/treasurer; E. B. Code, vice-presidentoperations: T. Croson, vice-president sales. Fleet: 14 DC-3. On order: four Friendship(November 1957). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:210,729 passengers; 90,779 freight ton-miles and 47,240 mail ton-miles flown; 3,323,249 "Mainliner Walla Walla," seen above at San Francisco, is one of 55 Convair CV-340s operated by United Air Lines. The U.A.L. DC-6B, the tail of which appears on the left, bears the new colour scheme designed for the airlines' DC-8s. (Below) West Norway Airlines' de Havilland Heron 2 flies between Stavanger and Bergen and Trondheim. total ton-miles flown; total costs, £1,382,076,total revenue, £1,428,936; 413 staff. West Coast Airways, is a new operator fly-ing scheduled services between Hokitika and Franz Josef Glacier, Fox Glacier, Haast andMilford Sound. The Haast - Milford Sound sector is only operated on request.Head Office: Hokitika, New Zealand. Fleet: D.H.89.Other details are not known. Western Airlines, Inc, claims to be theUnited States' oldest airline, having been founded in 1925 as Western Air Express. OnApril 17, 1926, air mail services were begun between Los Angeles and Las Vegas and SaltLake City and on May 23 that year the first passengers were carried over the route. WesternAir Express was part of the original TWA when it was formed in 1930 but Westernregained its independence in 1934. The pre- sent name was legally adopted on March 11,1941. WAL now operates 6,350 miles of routes in the Western and mid-West states.One route extends across the Canadian border to Edmonton. Head Office: Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A.Executives: T. C. Drinkwater, president; P. E. Sullivan, vice-president/secretary; J. J. Taylor,vice-president/treasurer; S. R. Shatto, vice- president operations; M. W. Landes, vice-president-service. Fleet: 12 DC-6B, nine Convair 240, threeDC-4, seven DC-3. On order: nine Electra (1959/60). Results for year ended December 31, 1956.-928,746 passengers; 48,480,929 revenue ton- miles flown. Other details not available. Wheeler Airlines, Ltd., is Canada's oldestairline, having been founded in 1921. The company is mostly engaged in non-scheduledoperations but maintains a Beech-18-operated service on weekdays between St. Jovite andMontreal. Head Office: St. Jovite, P.Q., Canada.Executives: F. H. Wheeler, president; R. Rych- licki, general manager; J. Bancroft, treasurer;G. Fitzgerald, secretary. Fleet: Includes DC-4, C-46, Canso, Norseman,Beaver, Anson 5, Cessna 180 and 195, Boeing 75 (for crop spraying).Traffic statistics not available. Wideroe's Flyveselskap og Polarfly A/S. isan old-established company engaging in many forms of air activity including charter flying and air survey. Wideroe's operated variouspioneer air services around the Norwegian coast before the war, and for several years since thewar the company has been operating the north Norway services for S.A.S. Routes, flown insummer, are Bodo - Troms5, Bodo - Narvik, Tromsd - Andsvann and Tromso - Vadso.Head Office: Oslo, Norway. Executive: V. Wideroe, general manager.Fleet: two Otter and four Norseman on scheduled services and two Lockheed 12A, twoSeabee, one Cessna 170, one piper Cub. On order: two Otter (1957).Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 11,640 passengers; 16,998 kg of freight and102,886 kg of mail carried; 229,350 ton-km flown; total costs, £125,000; total revenue,£150,000; 60 staff. Wien Alaska Airlines, Inc., operates an ex-tensive network of passenger, freight and mail services throughout most of Alaska. Operationsare concentrated in the Fairbanks area with longer routes stretching to Nome in the westand Point Barrow on the north coast. The company has operated under its present titlesince 1936. Previously it had operated since 1929 as Northern Air Transport; its originaloperations began in 1924. Head Office: Fairbanks, Alaska.Executives: S. Wien, president; G. B. Rayburn, executive vice-president and treasurer; F. Wien,vice-president operations; A. E. Hagberg, vice- president traffic; R. M. King, secretary.Fleet: five Curtiss C-46, th^ee DC-3, five Norseman, 12 Cessna (types 170, 180, 195).Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 20,866 passengers; 1,446,885 kg of freightcarried; 1,776,977 ton-miles flown; total costs, £1,947,479; total revenue, £1,777,508; 279staff. Woods Airways Pty., Ltd., was founded in1947 and began scheduled operations in July 1948. The company's only route is that be-tween Perth and Rottnest Island—a distance of 26 miles. Twelve services are flown in eachdirection every week and extra services are operated on demand.Head Office: Perth, W. Australia. Executives: Capt. J. Wood, managing director;G. L. S. Williams, secretary. Fleet: two Avro Anson. Results for quarter ended September 30, 1955:651 passengers: 999 kg of freight and 9 kg of mail catried; freight and mail, ton-miles per-formed, 57. No other details available.
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