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1958 - 0533.PDF
18 April 1958 549 TAG Airlines, Inc., formerly known as TaxiAir Group, began operations in April 1956 of a floatplane service linking downtown Detroitwith downtown Cleveland. The company operates this service during the summer monthsbut cannot use floatplanes off the lakes in winter; to overcome this problem and seasonaltraffic drop the fleet is based on Miami during winter and services are operated to FortLauderdale, Boca Raton, Stuart, Key Largo and Marathon.Head Office: Toledo, Ohio. Executives: E. F. Knight, general manager;W. W. Knight, Jr., secretary/treasurer; E. A. Eklund, vice-president operations; W. J.Swann, vice-president sales. Fleet: two Otter, one Beaver. T.A.I.—see Compagnie de TransportsAeriens Intercontinentaux. TAN Airlines—see Transportes AereosNacionales, S.A. T.A.P.—see Transportes Aereos Portu-gueses. T.A.P. (Brazil)—see Transportes AereosParaense. TAROM—see Transporturi AerieneRomine. T.A.S.—see Transportes Aereos Salvador,Ltda. Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., was formedin 1940 as a joint British - Australian - New Zealand company for the operation of serviceslinking New Zealand and Australia. Operating Short C-class flying-boats, it maintained duringthe war the only regular passenger service of any kind between the two countries. In 1954Britain withdrew and Teal is now owned jointly by the New Zealand and Australian Govern-ments. DC-6s replaced flying-boats on the trans-Tasman and Fiji services in 1954, but Solents are used on the Coral Route from Fiji to Tahitivia Samoa and Cook Islands, and between Fiji and Tonga. The company has 10,499 miles ofroutes in operation. Head Office: Auckland, New Zealand.Executives: Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman; J. W. Veale, asst. general manager (commercial); F. A.Reeves, asst. general manager (technical); K. A. Brownjohn, operations manager; D. W. Banks,secretary; A. A. Watson, accountant. Fleet: three DC-6; one Solent. T.C.A.—see Trans-Canada Air Lines. T.E.A.L.—see Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd. Thai Airways Company, Ltd.—TAC, wasformed in 1951 by the merger of Siamese Air- ways Co., Ltd., and Pacific Overseas Airlines(Siam), Ltd. The Government is believed to hold almost the entire stock. Thai Airwaysmaintains domestic services and also operates to Calcutta, Rangoon, Hong Kong, Formosa,Tokyo, Vientiane, Saigon, Phnompenh, Siem- reap, Penang and Singapore.Head Office: Bangkok, Thailand. Executives: Lt. Gen. Banyat Devahastin, chair-man; P. Limpisvasti, vice-chairman; Sakol Rasananda, managing director airline.Fleet: three DC-4, four DC-3, two Norseman, one C-46, one Bonanza. Tourist Air Travel commenced a thrice-weekly service between Wellington and Waiheke Island in October 1957. Trans-Air, Ltd., was formed recently by theamalgamation of Central Northern Airways and Arctic Wings. Central Northern Airways wasformed in 1947 to acquire and operate some bush routes formerly operated, in Saskatche-wan, Manitoba and Ontario, by Canadian Paci- fic Air Lines. Arctic Wings, based at Churchillon Hudson Bay, had been operating scheduled passenger and mail flights north to Baker Lakeand south to Fort Severn. Charter flights and occasional mail services extended to the farnorth and served Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet on Baffin Island. Head Office: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Executives: G. H. Sellers, chairman; R. D. Turner, president; F. C. McKay, secretary-treasurer. Fleet: two Anson, three Beaver, one Bellanca66-75, one Bristol 170, four Canso, four Cessna, one DC-3, one DC-4, one Lockheed 12A, 15Norseman, one Waco YKC-S, one Waco AQC-8, one York. Transa Chile, Ltda., is a small companyprimarily engaged on charter flights. Head Office: Santiago, Chile.Executives: F. O. Devoto, president; M. C. Fischer, executive vice-president.Fleet: three C-46, two Canso. Tracsair Sweden A.B. Details of the com-pany's present operations are not available, but in addition to charter flying and the operationof inclusive tours, Transair Sweden has operated scheduled services on behalf of S.A.S.,including some between Stockholm and Visby. Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden.Executives: P. Loven, managing director. Fleet: three DC-3, two Consul, three C-46. Trans-Australia Airlines was set up, andis controlled on behalf of the State, by the Australian National Airlines Commission, forthe operation of domestic services. Operations began in 1946 and have been extremely suc-cessful; its present route mileage of 32,228 makes it the largest domestic airline in theCommonwealth. A network of routes link Melbourne, Ade-laide, Sydney, Brisbane and Hobart. A coastal route serves Townsville and Cairns; there areroutes from both Adelaide and Brisbane to Darwin and one from Adelaide to Perth. T.A.A.was the first Australian airline to operate Viscounts. Head Office: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Executives: W. D. McDonald, chairman; S. N. Crawford, secretary; J. P. Ryland, gen. mgr.;R. E. Bailey, dir., operations; J. Borthwick, commercial director; H. L. Brown, chiefaccountant. Fleet: 11 Viscount, two Convair 240, fourDC-4, 22 DC-3, four Drover, one Hiller UH-12C. On order: three Viscount (1958),six Friendship (1959). Trans-Canada Air Lines was founded in1937 as the nationally-owned airline, with the stock being held by the Government CanadianNational Railways. The company began opera- tions between Vancouver and Seattle andestablished air mail services between Montreal and Vancouver by October 1938 and trans-continental passenger services by April 1939. In May 1947, T.C.A. took over commercialoperation of its wartime-established trans- atlantic services to Britain. The airline now operates transcontinentalservices, services to Europe, the U.S.A., Ber- muda, Jamaica, the Bahamas and Trinidad.T.C.A. was the first airline to introduce Vis- count services in North America.Head Office: Montreal, Canada. Executives: G. R. McGregor, president; H. W.Seagrim, vice-president operations; W. G. Wood, vice-president sales; R. H. Tarr, secre-tary; G. S. Cowie, treasurer. Fleet: 11 L-1049, 20 Canadair North Star, 31Viscount, 17 DC-3. On order: 20 Vanguard, six DC-8, 20 Viscount. Trans-Caribbean Airways, Inc., operatesweekend services, at low fares, between New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico.Head Office: New York City, New York, U.S.A. Executives: O. Roy Chalk, president; Irving M.Buckley, vice-president/treasurer; D. J. McFarland, director traffic and operations.Fleet: DC-6, DC-4, C-46. Transcontinental, S.A., was founded in 1956to operate scheduled services within Argentina and to the U.S. California Eastern Airlinesholds a 25 per cent share. Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina.Executive: E. Maslorenz, president. * Fleet: three C-46, two L-1049H. Trans Island Airways, Ltd., was set up asa result of a meeting of Oamaru businessmen in February 1956 to decide on the provision ofair services for North Otago, South Canterbury and Nelson. Licences were obtained for regu-lar services between Christchurch and Timaru, Oamaru, Nelson, Rongotai, West Coast, andChatham Islands. A licence has also been ob- tained for Rongotai-Chatham Is. services andfor charter operations from both Christchurch and Oamaru. The first route to be opened, inApril 1956, was Christchurch - Timaru - Oamaru operated with a D.H.89 and mail con-tracts were obtained for that route and also for the Christchurch - Nelson route.Head Office: Oamaru, New Zealand. Executives: K. T. Cusack, secretary; Brian G.Chadwick, chief pilot. Fleet: one D.H.89, two Beech D.18S. Trans Mar de Cortes was founded as aprivate company in 1947 and began operations in December 1948 with freight and mailservices. Passenger carriage began in 1949 and in July 1952 the company took over LineasAereos del Pacifico. A network of routes is operated in the Gulf of California area.Head Office: Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico. Executives: M. Obregon, director /manager; L.Coppola, general manager; T. B. Lee, opera- tions manager.Fleet: three DC-3. Trans Mediterranean Airways operates afleet of seven York freighters on charter services.Head Office: Beirut, Lebanon. Fleet: seven York. Transocean Air Lines, is a U.S. supple-mental carrier operating a scheduled weekly service between Oakland and Okinawa viaHonolulu, Wake Island and Guam. Other ser- vices are operated between Oakland, Burbankand Honolulu. Transocean is responsible for the Trust Territory Operations in the Pacificand also has interests in Air Jordan and Iranair. Head Office: Oakland, California, U.S.A. Among the very few remaining operators to use Short Solents, T.E.A.L have one of these aircraft on their Pacific "Coral" routes.
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