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1958
1958 - 0524.PDF
540 FLIGHT Old stagers at Stockholm: two Lodestars and three DC-3s of Linjeflyg, A.B. WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. L.A.I.- Alitalia. see Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. and 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: J. J. O'Connell, chairman; G. Hicks, president; L. W. Hartman, executivevice-president/treasurer; R. W. Clifford, vice- president operations.Fleet: 10 DC-3. Lake Air Taxi Service, Inc., operatesscheduled services between Chicago and Michigan City and Benton Harbour.Heud Office: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Executive: W. Barnett, president.Fleet: Piper Apache, Twin Beech. L.A.N.—see Linea Aerea National de Chile. LANICA—see Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua,S.A. Laurentian Air Services, Ltd., was foundedin 1936 and now operates charter flights and a regular service from Ottawa to St. Jovite,Quebec. Head Office: Ottawa, Ont., Canada.Executive: A. B. Maclaren, president. Fleet: six Beaver, one Cessna, one Goose. L.A.V.—see Linea Aeropostal Venezolana. Leavens Bros., Ltd., which operates pas-senger services between Windsor, Ontario, and Pelee Island in Lake Erie was originally formedin 1927. It was incorporated as Leaven Bros. Air Services in 1935 and was reorganized underits 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. Lebanese International Airways operatesscheduled services between Beirut and Kuwait and charter flights. L.I.A. has recently beengranted rights to operate to Paris. Head Office: Beirut, Lebanon.Executives: A. Arida, president. Fleet: two C-46. Leeward Islands Air Transport Co.operates low frequency services connecting Antigua with Montserrat, St. Kitts, Anguillaand San Juan, Puerto Rico. Head Office: St. John's, Antigua, B.W.I.Executives: Sir E. Dos Santos, director; U. Meade, secretary.Fleet: two Piper Apache. L.I.A.T.—see Leeward Islands Air Trans-port Services, Ltd. Liberian National Airways is a Government-owned airline which began operations in 1952. Internal services are operated from Roberts-field and Monrovia to eight other points. Head Office: Robertsfield, Liberia.Executives: F. H. Syphert, president. Fleet: two DC-3. Lineas Aereas del Estado—LADE, wasfounded in September 1940 as a branch of the Argentine Air Force to operate services toisolated areas, and which could not be worked as commercial undertakings. After the warthese services were taken over by commercial airlines but LADE is again flying certaindomestic services. Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina.Executives: Brig. Gen. H. Rivara, director; J. F. Badin, general manager; D. Petronio,traffic manager. Fleet: Viking, DC-3, DC-4. One of the two CV-440s of Kar-Air O/Y. Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile—L.A.N. wasfounded in 1932 by the Chilean Government to take over Linea Aeropostal Santiago Arica.The original fleet consisted of three Ford Tri- motors. The company has developed servicesthroughout the length of Chile and inter- national routes to Mendoza, Buenos Aires andRio Grande in the Argentine; La Paz in Bolivia; Lima and Tacna in Peru and Monte-,video in Uruguay. r Head Office: Santiago, Chile.Executives: A. Fernandez, president; E. Silva, secretary general; H. M. Sauvageot, businessmanager; R. S. Stone, vice-president opera- tions. Fleet: three DC-6B, four Martin 2-0-2, 18DC-3, two Electra. 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 and the airline is now a wholly owned L.A.V.subsidiary operated as a separate division. Services operated are all domestic with the ex-ception of the routes from Caracas and Mara- caibo to Bogota in Colombia.Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela. - Executives: Col. L. Calderon, president; L.-Paul, general manager. Fleet: 13 DC-3. Lineas Aereas Costarricenses S.A."LACSA," was founded in 1945 by Pan American Airways, the Government of CostaRica and Costa Rican private interests. P.A.A. originally held 36 per cent of the stock but isbeheved now to hold a smaller percentage. Scheduled operations began in 1946. In 1952LACSA took over TACA de Costa Rica, which had operated since 1939 as one of the units ofthe_ TACA system. LACSA operates a network of internal services based on San Jos£ and alsoroutes to Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Cuba and Miami.Head Office: San Jose, Costa Rica. Executives: F. Teran, president; R. E. Smith,general manager; F. Bonilla, asst. general manager; C. Hoist, operations manager andchief pilot. Fleet: three DC-3, four C-46, two Convair 340. Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua, S.A.—LANICA, was founded in June 1945 with Pan American Airways holding 40 per cent of thecompany's capital. Internal services were begun in 1946 with a fleet consisting of twoBoeing 247 aircraft. At present the company serves nine points in Nicaragua in addition toits home city, Managua. Head Office: Managua, Nicaragua.Executives: Col. L. A. Somoza, president; A. Sacasa, vice-president; F. P. Powers, vice-president; F. Gaitin, treasurer; C. A. Telleria, secretary. Fleet: six DC-3, two C-46, one Ryan Navion,one Beech. Lineas Aereas Espanolas—see Compania Mercantil Anonime Iberia. Linee Aeree Italiane, S.p.A. LAI, wasformed in 1946 with Italian interests holding 60 per cent of the stock and T.W.A. 40 percent. The first routes, from Rome to Milan, Palermo and Cagliari, were opened in April1947. In 1952 LAI absorbed Ali Flotte Riunite thus reducing the number of post-war Italianairlines to two. Transatlantic services were
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