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FLIGHT, 17 April 1959 545 LAB's converted B-17s are familar to spot- ters in La Paz, Bolivia WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. Interior Enterprises Inc. operates charterservices in Alaska. Head Office: Box 438, Fairbanks, Alaska.Executives: J. S. Magoffin, president; D. R. Magoffin, executive vice-president.Fleet: three C-46, two DC-3, six Cessna 180, three Norseman, 11 others. International Charter Aviation Co. wasreported to have been formed in May 1958 by Dutch, German and British interests. Nothingis known of their operation. Head Office: Amsterdam, Netherlands.Fleet: three Viking (?) Iranian Airways Co.—Iranair was founded as aprivate company in 1944 and began full scale scheduled operations in May 1946. Opera-tions have steadily increased and Iranair's routes now extend across eight Middle Eastcountries. Fifteen cities are served in Iran and the airline flies regular services to Pakistan,Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Germany. Iranair is managedunder contract by Transocean Air Lines. Head Office: Avenue Saadi, Teheran, Iran.Executives: Reza Afshar, chairman and man- aging director; Allan Barrie, general manager;Walter Kyse, operations manager; Leo Nikkari, controller; George Pohle, general traffic man-ager; Robert Martin, general sales manager; Ahmad Majidi, commercial manager; GordonLinscheid, superintendent of maintenance. Fleet: three Convair 240, six DC-3, one DC-4,one Dove, three D.H.89, one Beechcraft, three Viscount 700. Iraqi Airways was founded in 1945 as asubsidiary of the Government-owned Iraqi State Railways. BOAC supplies certain tech-nical staff as required. Viscounts operate fre- quent services from Baghdad to Bahrein,Basra, Beirut, Damascus, Cairo, Kuwait and Teheran, and a twice weekly service to Londonvia Istanbul and Vienna, and to Athens, Rome and Frankfurt. Services to Mosul and Kirkukare also' flown by Vikings. Head Office: Baghdad, Iraq.Executives: Kana'an el Askari, manager; T. D. Walters, technical adviser; C. H. Robinson,chief engineer. Fleet: four Viscount, three Viking, one Dove. Japan Air Lines Co.—JAL (Ninon KokuKabushiki Kaisha) is successor to the Japan Air Lines which was founded by private in-terests in 1951. That company opened domestic service with Martin 2-0-2s andDC-4s which, together with crews, were leased from Northwest Airlines. On October 1, 1953,the new company came into being with the Government holding 50 per cent of the stock.The old JAL routes were taken over and routes were also opened to Hong Kong,Bangkok, Singapore, Okinawa, Honolulu and San Francisco. A non-scheduled service viathe U.S. is operated to Sao Paulo. In 1959 JAL plans to open services to Los Angeles,Seattle and Taipei. Head Office: Tokyo, Japan.Executives: S. Yanagita, president; S. Matsuo, managing director.Employees: 2,345. Fleet: "five DC-6B, four DC-7C, ten DC-4,three Heron, one Beech D.18S. On order: four DC-8 (1960). Japan Air Service Inc. operates internalservices in Japan using five Cessna and two Doves. Japan Helicopter and Aeroplane TransportCo. Ltd.—see All Nippon Airways. Jugoslovenski Aerotransport — JAT was founded in 1946 and is now the sole Jugoslavairline; it is completely state-owned. Domestic services are operated as well as routes toAthens, Cairo, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Vienna, Rome, Prague, Tirana and Zurich.Head Office: Belgrade, Jugoslavia. Executives: M. Simovic, general manager; M.Rakic, traffic director; R. Radojevic, finance director; R. Radojkovic, technical director; G.Vojvodic, commercial director. Fleet: 13 DC-3, one Convair 340, two Convair440, six Ilyushin 14, two DC-6B. Kalinga Air Lines Ltd. was formed in 1947 butsuspended operation when India's domestic air services were nationalized in 1953. Non-scheduled services were started again last year, aircraft being leased from Indamer Co.Fleet: eight DC-3. Kar-Air O/V (Karhumaki Airways) is theairline operating offshoot of the long-estab- lished Finnish aircraft manufacturing, main-tenance and charter organization. Scheduled operations were begun in 1950 between Hel-sinki and Joensuu, using two D.H.89s bought from Finnish Air Lines. In the following yearfurther internal routes were operated as well as one to Sundsvall in Sweden and Lodestarswere then used. The company's present routes are from Helsinki to Tampere; Helsinki toJoensuu; and between Tampere and Stock- holm. Head Office: 3 Lonnrotinkatu, Helsinki, Fin-land. Executives: U. Karhumaki, president; M. Pal-mujoki, traffic manager; T. Karhumaki, tech- nical manager. Fleet: three DC-3, one Lodestar, two Convair440. Renting Aviation Ltd., a member of the Hunt- ing Group, specializes in aerial survey. A sub- sidiary, Renting Helicopters, was re-activated in 1956 and operates three S-55s on transport. Head Office: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Executives: D. Kendall, president; W. Godfrey, vice-president; M. Dedrick, secretary; A. Soutar, general manager. Employees: 75. Fleet: three B-17, two Lockheed 14, two Hud- son, four Canso, one Anson, one Cessna, three S-55. Kita Nihon K.K.—see North Japan Airways. KLM—-see Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maat- schappij. KNA—see Korean National Airlines. Kodiak Airways Inc. has recently been granted a C.A.B. licence to operate three routes within Alaska from Kodiak to Olga Bay, Parks and Port William.Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV— KLM, the Dutch national airline, beganoperations in May 1920. A European network was established, and services to Java began in1929. Services were begun in the West Indies in 1935 and these continued throughout thewar, so the company can claim 39 years of continuous operation.With a present unduplicated route mileage of over 170,000 miles, KLM has a networkof European routes, a West Indies network, and routes between Europe and North, Centraland South America; South Africa; the Near, Middle and Far East; and Australia. For morethan 30 years K.L.M. was directed by its founder, the late Dr. Albert Plesman. Themajority of the company's capital is held by the Netherlands Government.Head Office: The Hague, Holland. Executives: I. A. Aler, president; F. Besancon,L. H. Slotemaker, J. van der Wiel, executive vice-presidents.Employees: 16,871. Fleet: 10 L.749, 19 L.1049, 15 DC-7C, sixDC-6, one DC-6A, seven DC-6B, two DC-4, nine Viscount, 14 Convair 340, two Convair249, 14 DC-3 (three chartered to "De Kroon- duif"). On order: two Fokker Friendship(1959/60), eight DC-8 (1960), 12 Electra (1959/60). Korean National Airlines—KNA was foundedunder the Ministry of Transport in 1947, and operated routes radiating from Seoul withStinson Voyagers. DC-3s were introduced in 1950 shortly before the Korean war stoppedcommercial operations, which were resumed in 1952. The company now operates DC-3 ser-vices within South Korea and a DC-4 service between Seoul and Hong Kong. Thecompany has been considering opening a Korea - U.S.A. route via Honolulu.Head Office: Seoul, South Korea. Executives: Y. W. Shinn, president; M. Kirk,managing director; S. Kim, acting traffic and sales manager; M. McCormick, chief engineer.Fleet: one DC-4, three DC-3. Kunex Transportation Co. S.A., a recentlyformed Cuban carrier, has been granted a C.A.B. licence to operate a freight servicebetween Miami and Cuba. Kuwait Airways Ltd. was founded in 1953as Kuwait National Airways, the present name having been adopted in 1955. Services areoperated to Bahrein, Dhahran, Abadan, Basra, Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo and Beirut. Thecompany has a management contract with British International Airlines, a BOAC sub-sidiary in Kuwait. Head Office: Box 394, Kuwait.Executives: A. S. Alkahaled, chairman; G. Boughton, chief executive; A. R. Mishri,manager; L. C. Giles, resident adviser. Fleet: two DC-3, two DC-4, two Viscount. LAB—see Lloyd Aereo Bolivano. LAC—see Lloyd Aereo Colombiano or LineasAereas de California. LACSA—see Lineas Aereas CostarricensesS.A. LADE—see Lineas Aereas del Estado. LAI—see Linee Aeree Italiane S.p.A. andAlitalia. Lake Air Service Inc. operates scheduledservices between Chicago and Michigan City and Benton Harbour.Head Office: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Executive: W. Barnett, president.Fleet: Piper Apache, Twin Beech. 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 2,000 miles of routes in the states between and tothe south of Lakes Erie and Michigan. In 1955 employees of the airline bought thecompany's entire stock. Head Office: Weir Cook Airport, Indianapolis,Indiana, U.S.A. [Continued overleaf Linjeflyg are developing an extensive domestic network with DC-3s in Sweden
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