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1958 - 0532.PDF
548 FLIGHT WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. Sociedade Acoriana de Transportes Aereos,Ltda.—SATA. This company began opera- tions in 1948 and now has 313 miles of routes.Three services a week are operated between Sao Miguel and Santa Maria and three flights aweek serve Terceira. Head Office: Sao Miguel, Azores.Executives: A. M. Noqueira, operations man- ager; V. A. Portugal, traffic manager.Fleet: two Dove. Societe Aerienne de Transport GuyaneAntilles—SATGA (French Guiana Air Trans- port), flies local services in French Guiana.Cayenne, St. Laurent, St. Georges, Mari- pasoula and Saul are served by scheduledflights. Delice is served on request for cargo or ambulance calls.Head Office: Cayenne, French Guiana. Fleet: D.H.89, Vultee L-13. Societe Anonyme Beige d'Exploitation de laNavigation Aerienne—see SABENA. Societe Auxilaire de Gerance et de Trans-ports Aeriens—see SAGETA. Societe Beige de Transports par Air—Sobel-air is primarily engaged on charter flights between Belgium and the Congo but a domes-tic network within the Congo was established in 1957. Sobclair is a subsidiary of Sabena.Head Office: Brussels, Belgium. Executives: G. Claeys, managing director; A.Philippe, general manager; P. Benin, commer- cial manager.Fleet: two DC-4, two Cessna 310. Societe Caledonienne de Transports Aeriens"Tratwpac," operates services between Noumea and Isle of Pines, Lifu, Uvea and Mare.Head Office: Noumea, New Caledonia. Executives: H. G. Martinet, president; H. C.Coursin, manager; J. A. Lafargue, chief pilot; M. A. Couillaud, chief engineer.Fleet: three D.H.89. Societe de Transports Aeriens en ExtremeOrient—COSARA operates non-scheduled services from Saigon.Head Office: Saigon, Vietnam. Executives: Pham Hoe, managing director; M.Loubiere, director general. Fleet: four DC-4, four Bretagne. Societe Tunisienne de L'Air—see Tunisair. South African Airways was formed in 1934to take over Union Airways, and the airline is owned and controlled by the Governmentthrough the South African Railways and Har- bours Administration. In 1935 the new air-line acquired South West African Airways. SAA now operates an internal network ofroutes and also has services to Rhodesia and Europe. A new Johannesburg - London routevia Leopoldville, Kano and Algiers was opened with DC-7Bs in 1956. Head Office: Johannesburg, Transvaal, Unionof South Africa. Executives: D. H. du Plessis, general manager;D. Robbertze, deputy general manager. Fleet: four DC-7B, four L-749A, seven DC-4,six DC-3. On order: seven Viscount 813. Southeast Airlines, Inc., operates scheduledservices within Tennessee. Head Office: Kingsport, Tennessee, U.S.A.Executives: E. W. King, president; W. Steele, vice-president.Fleet: five DC-3. Southern Airlines, Ltd., was founded inApril 1955 and operates services from Mel- bourne to Sale, Bairnsdale, Shepparton, Ben-alla, Warrnambool, Tocumwal, Kerang, Swan Hill, Flinders Island and Balranald.Head Office: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Executives: Sir R. Barnewall, chairman; L.Edwards, operations manager. Fleet: two Dove. Southern Airways, Inc., was founded in July1943 and began operations in June 1949. Twenty-eight cities are served in the states ofGeorgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ten- nessee, Florida and North and South Carolina.Permanent certification was granted in May 1955. Head Office: Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.Executives: F. W. Hulse, president; C. M. Britt, vice-president sales; W. S. Magill, vice-president operations; G. Estey, secretary/ treasurer.Fleet: 13 DC-3. T.C.A.'s international operations are based on their fleet of 11 piston-engined Super Constellation L.1049Gs. South West Air Transport (Pty.), Ltd., hasfor several years been operating feeder services connecting with South African Airways' flightsat Windhoek. Operations include five weekly services between Windhoek and Otjiwarongo,Outjo, Tsumeb and Grootfontein and a twice weekly service Windhoek and Walvis Bay.Head Office: Windhoek, South West Africa. Executives: P. H. M. Du Plessis, chairman;G. T. van Rooyen, managing director; A. K. L. Finke, chief engineer.Fleet: seven Ryan Navion, one D.H.89. •:. Southwest Airways Co.—see Pacific Air Lines. Spartan Air Services, Ltd., concentrates onaerial survey, using helicopters in Canada and in many countries abroad.Head Office: Ottawa, Canada. Executives: J. Roberts, president; R. Hall,secretary; J. Wells, vice-president. Fleet: 14 Bell 47. St. Vincent Government Air Service oper-ates services between St. Vincent and Barbados, Dominica, Grenada and Trinidad under char-ter to British Guiana Airways. Fleet: Grumman Goose. Straits Air Freight Express, a subsidiary ofAirwork, Ltd., is primarily engaged on scheduled freight services linking the Northand South Islands of New Zealand. Their development of the "Cargon" loading systemhas been widely adopted elsewhere. Head Office: Wellington, New Zealand.Executives: J. Sawers, chairman; D. Hay, secre- tary; R. Hamilton, operations manager.Fleet: four Bristol 170. Sudan Airways is government-owned andbegan operations in 1947. Routes extend throughout the Sudan from Wadi Haifa in thenorth to Juba in the south; and from Geneina in the west to Port Sudan in the east. Inter-national routes serve Aden, Asmara and Cairo. Head Office: Khartoum, Sudan.Executives: Abdel Bagi Mohamed, general manager; Y. Bakheit, traffic superintendent(admin.); M. H. A. Bashendi, traffic superin- tendent (technical); M. El Amir, sales superin-tendent; C. E. Blake, chief accountant; D. W. Graham, chief pilot; R. D. Collins, chiefengineer; H. Ahmed, operations superintendent. Fleet: five DC-3, four Dove. Suid-Afrikaanse African Airwavs. Lugdiens—see South Surinam Airways—Surinaamsche Lucht-vaart Maarschappii, N.V., operates internal ser- vices in Dutch Guiana from Paramaribo toMoengo and Nickerie. Head Office: Paramaribo, Surinam.Fleet: Cessna, Aero Commander. Swissair—Swiss Air Transport Co., Ltd.,was founded on March 26th, 1931, by the amalgamation of Ad Astra Aero A.G. and theBasle Air Traffic Co., known as Balair. Ad Astra was founded in 1919 and began flying-boat services linking Swiss cities, before pion- eering international routes. Thus Swissair canclaim, with its predecessors, 39 years of con- tinuous operation, although its activities wereseverely restricted during the war. Since the war the company has grown rapidly and it nowoperates a network of European routes, and has services to North and South America andthe Near East and Far East. "- Head Office: Zurich, Switzerland. :Executives: Dr. W. Berchtold, president; E. Schmidheiny, chairman; E. Groh^ yice-presi- 'dent finance; L. L. Ambord, vice-p~resident traffic and sales; R. Fretz, vice-president opera- >lions; I. Lack, vice-president maintenance; A. Baltensweiler, vice-president planning. - Fleet: four DC-7C, six DC-6B, three DC-4,eight DC-3, 11 Convair 440. On order: three DC-8, one DC-7C, one DC-6A. Syrian Airways Company was formed in1946 and began operations in 1947. Financial difficulties caused the suspension of services in1948, but after receiving Government support operations were resumed in 1951. The com-pany now flies domestic services and also has international routes to the Lebanon, Egypt,Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait. Creation of the United Arab Republic will probably result inthis airline merging with Misrair. Head Office: Damascus, Syria. _-..;.-..Executives: not known. Fleet: four DC-3, two DC-4. T.A.A.—see Trans-Australia Airlines. T.A.B.—see Transportes Aereos Bandeir- antes. TABSO—Bulgarian Civil Air Transport, operates domestic services and routes to Bel-grade, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Berlin. The airline came into being after the war asthe Government's Bulgarske Vazdusne Sob- stenie and in 1949 it became TABSO, in whichBulgaria and the U.S.S.R. each held 50 per cent. The U.S.S.R. withdrew its interest in1954. Head Office: Sofia, Bulgaria.Fleet: Li-2, 11-14. T.A.C.—see Empresa de Transportes Aereos Catarinense, S.A. TACA de Honduras, now a subsidiary ofSAHSA, began charter operations in 1931 and became part of the TACA System in 1932.Scheduled services were begun in 1944. The TACA System sold its interests in the companyin 1948. The company operates a domestic network of services.Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Executives: A. Rodriguez, president; W. A.Buxbaum, treasurer; C. A. Garcia, secretary. Fleet: DC-3. TACA International Airlines, S.A., wasfounded in Salvador in 1939 as a subsidiary of the U.S. TACA Corporation. AlthoughTACA once controlled a number of airlines, TACA International is now the only one stilloperated by the Corporation. Routes extend from New Orleans and Mexico City throughGuatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa and Managua to San Jos6, in Costa Rica, andPanama. A scheduled freight service is oper- ated once a week between New Orleans andGuatemala, Route mileage is 3,980. Head Office: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.(operating from San Salvador). Executives: R. H. Kreite, president; R. E.Clipson, vice-president operations; J. D. Brock, vice-president traffic; W. B. Daly, treasurer;E. Canas, secretary. Fleet: DC-4, one Viscount. T.A.E.—see Olympic Airways.
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