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538 FLIGHT, 18 April 1958 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. Madrid on certain days, thus providing higherfrequency services to and from London. Head Office: Gibraltar.Executives: Sir George Gaggero, O.B.E., chair- man; The Earl Amherst, M.C., deputychairman; J. Victory, secretary. Fleet: one DC-3 owned and operated by B.E.A. Grupo del Transportes, also known asTransportes Aereos Militares (T.A.M.), oper- ates some domestic services in Peru. Servicesare carried out by the Peruvian Air Force. Head Office: Lima, Peru.Executives: Col. C. Ramos, director; Capt. H. Diaz, technical manager.Fleet: eight DC-3, six D.H.89, three Stinson, one Beechcraft, four Canso, four Beaver. Guest Aeroyias Mexico, S.A., was foundedin 1946 and in 1948 the company opened a service to Madrid but this was later aban-doned. The company flies once weekly between Mexico City and Panama/Balboa.Constellations purchased from Qantas are used on this route, as well as on the daily servicefrom Mexico to Miami. Head Office: Mexico City, Mexico.Executives: Winston Guest, president; G. L. Monteiro, vice-president/general manager;J. S. Nothnagel, general manager traffic/sales. Fleet: one DC-4, two L.749A Constellation,two C-82 Packet, three DC-4. Guest Airways—see Guest Aerovias Mexico, S.A. Guinea Airways, Ltd., now operate servicesmainly in South Australia with Adelaide as its headquarters. Originally formed in 1927, thecompany did remarkable work in the New Guinea goldfields until this was ended by theJapanese. A route had also been established from Darwin to Adelaide. After the war thenewly formed State-owned Trans-Australia Airlines drove Guinea Airways off this routeand caused its decline to the status of a small operator. Head Office: Adelaide, South Australia.Executives: S. Powell, chairman; C. A. Win- dow, secretary; Capt. N. S. D. Buckley, chiefpilot. Fleet: five DC-3, two Auster. Gulf Aviation Co., Ltd., was formed in 1950by Mr. F. Bosworth. The company became a subsidiary of B.O.A.C. in the following year.Eighteen services a week are operated between Bahrein and Dhahran and there are also ser-vices from Bahrein to Doha, Abu Dhabi, Shar- jah and Muscat.Head Office: Bahrein. Executives: G. B. Thompson, chairman;E. H. W. Lewis, executive director/secretary; K. H. N. Bulmer, chief pilot; E. C. Evemy,chief engineer. . . Fleet: four Dove, two Heron. Additional Herons are being acquired from New Zealand National. Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd., was founded inJanuary 1929 as Inter-Island Airways. The Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company held76 per cent of the original stock, services were begun in November 1929 and Sikorsky amphi-bian biplanes were used. The present title was adopted in 1941 and it was in that year thatDC-3s were first introduced. The airline's services link Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Molokai,Kauai and Honolulu (on Oahu island). Hawaiian Airlines can claim two distinc-tions : they were the first American scheduled carrier to employ all-cargo aircraft on freightservices, and their safety record is unique, the airline having never had a single fatal accidentin the 28 years of operation since its foundation. Head Office: Honolulu, Hawaii.Executives: Stanley C. Kennedy, chairman; Arthur D. Lewis, president; Brian Cooke, vice-president/treasurer; Lionel D. Machado, vice- president operations; Jack C. Tobin, vice-presi-dent sales. Fleet: five Convair 340, five DC-3, one DC-6C. Hong Kong Airways, Ltd., was formed in1947 to operate feeder services connecting main centres of China with B.O.A.C. trunk route atHong Kong. A DC-3 service to Shanghai was opened in December 1947 and in 1948 routeswere opened to Canton and Manila. After the Communist conquest of China Hong KongAirways operated only to Formosa with air- craft chartered from Northwest Airlines butwith the advent of its Viscounts this airline now also serves Manila, Seoul and Tokyo.Head Office: Hong Kong. Executives: H. D. M. Barton, chairman; Maj. Two Douglases of Hawaiian Airlines: a panoramic-windowed DC-3 and a DC-6. R. H. Thornton, director; Hon. D. C. Geddes,director; Sir George Cribbett, director. Fleet: two Viscount 760D. Hunting-Clan African Airways (Pvt.), Ltd.,an offshoot of Hunting-Clan Air Transport, operates services within the Federation ofRhodesia and Nyasaland and is described as "The Federation's Independent Airline."Third class passenger and cargo services are operated between Salisbury and Lusaka withcompulsory break of journey at Kariba; and between Salisbury and Abercorn via Kariba,Lusaka, Ndola and Kasama. Inclusive tour services from Salisbury and Johannesburg toVilanculos are operated in association with Fishair (Pvt.), Ltd. There is a weekly cargoservice between Salisbury and Blantyre and a weekly cargo service between Salisbury andNairobi as part of Hunting-Clan Air Trans- port's "Afncargo" operation to and fromLondon. Head Office: Salisbury, Fed. of Rhodesia andNyasaland. Executives: C. Barnard, chairman; T. Lawler,general manager; D. Shaw, secretary. Fleet: three D.H.89, two DC-3. IBERIA-IBERIA. see Compania Mercantil Anonima Icelandair—see Flugfelag Islands. Icelandic Airlines—see Loftleidir. lUini Airlines, Inc., began operating servicesin March 1955 between Sterling, Illinois, and Meigs Field in downtown Chicago. PiperApache aircraft were used and the original frequency was two round-trips on three daysa week. Public demand made necessary the purchase of larger aircraft and two Doves wereacquired in August and October 1955. The company now serves Detroit, Chicago, Rock-ford, Freeport and Rock Falls/Sterling with frequent services from Mondays to Fridays.Head Office: Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A. Executives: Douglas C. Harvey, president;John W. Bowman, first vice-president; Donald H. Swearingen, chief pilot; Leo Masiulis, pas-senger sales manager; Scott McCann, cargo sales manager.Fleet: three Dove. On order: one Heron. Indamer Airways—see Kalinga Airways. Indian Airlines Corporation was formed in1953, taking over on August 1 that year the services previously operated by a number ofprivate airlines. Operating 23,600 miles of routes in India and to Afghanistan, Burma,Ceylon, Nepal and East and West Pakistan, the Corporation's operations are divided intothree areas with bases at Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi. Spain's latest equipment: one of Iberia's fleet of five CV-440 Metropolitans.
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