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546 FLIGHT An ME A Viscount at base WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. Executives: J. J. O'Connell, chairman; G.Hicks, president; L. W. Hartman, executive vice-president/treasurer; R. W. Clifford, vice-president operations; W. H. Krieg, secretary; D. S. Getchell, vice-president traffic and sales; J. L. Cory, asst. treasurer.Fleet: 10DC-3. LAN—see Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile. LANICA—see Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua. Laurentian Air Services Ltd. was founded in1936 and now operates charter flights and a regular service from Ottawa to St. Jovite.Head Office: Ottawa, Ont., Canada. Executives: A. B. MacLaren, president; D.Pickering, manager. Fleet: seven Beaver, one Cessna, one Goose. LAV—see Linea Aeropostal Venezolana. Leavens Bros. Ltd., which operates passengerservices between Windsor, Ontario, and Polee 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 and general manager; R. H. Leavens, vice-president,C. D. Leavens, secretary^ R. O. Brown, treasurer. . ,; Fleet: 24 various. Lebanese International Airways — LIAoperates scheduled services between Beirut and Kuwait, Teheran, Doha, Bahrein, Dharan,Milan, Paris and Brussels. LIA works closely with Sabena.Head Office: Rue Riad Solh, Beirut, Lebanon. Executives: A. Arida, president; Capt. van Rooyen, manager. Fleet: one DC-6, two DC-4. LEBCA—see Lineas Expresa Bolivar C.A. Leeward Islands Air Transport Co.—LIAToperates low frequency services connecting Antigua with Montserrat, St. Kitts, Anguilla and San Juan, Puerto Rico.Head Office: St. John's, Antigua, B.W.I. Executives: Sir E. Dos Santos, director; U.Meade, secretary. Fleet: one Piper Apache. Les Courriers Normands operate a summerhelicopter service between Le Havre and Caen. LIAT—see Leeward Islands Air Transport. 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.Executive: F. H. Syphert, president. Fleet: two DC-3. Libiavia—Nord Africa Aviazione S.p.A. was founded in 1931 and from 1946 concentratedon airline agency work. Last July the company started their own air services, a twice weeklyoperation Tripoli - Ankara using DC-6Bs chartered from UAT. All the company'scapital is held by local interests. Head Office: Box 245, Tripoli, Libya.Executive: M. Misran, president. Linea Aerea del Cobre Ltda.—LADECO operate DC-3s within Chile from their base at Santiago. Linsa Aerea Nacional de Chile—LAN 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 Uruguay, Argentine, Bolivia,Peru, Ecuador, Panama and the U.S. Head Office: Los Cerrillos Airport, Santiago.Executives: M. Yanquez, president; H. Duffau, secretary general; H. M. Sauvageot, businessmanager; J. Jarpa, operations manager; R. Hirigoyen, traffic and sales manager.Employees: 1,617. ' Fleet: seven DC-6B, four Martin 2-0-2, 17DC-3, two Electra, one Beechcraft. Linea Aeropostal Venezolana—LAV wasfounded in 1933 when the Venezuelan Govern- ment took over the routes and equipment ofthe Cie. Gle. Aeropostale which had begun operating in Venezuela in 1930. LAV beganflying with Latecoere 28 monoplanes and the first new type to be introduced was the Electra.LAV, which took over TACA de Venezuela in 1952, now has a 10,000-mile network. Inaddition to internal services, regional services are operated to the U.S., to Bogota, to Limaand throughout the Caribbean and an inter- continental service is operated to Lisbon,Madrid and Rome. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela.Executive: Col. L. Calderon, president. Fleet: three Viscount, four L.1049G, oneL.1049C, one L.749, 16 DC-3, two Martin 2-0-2, four C-46, one Lodestar. On order : sixF-27. Lineas Aereas Colombiana Expresa operatestwo Fairchild C-82s on internal services within Colombia. Lineas Aereas Costarricenses SA—LACSAwas founded in 1945 by Pan American Airways, the Government of Costa Ricaand Costa Rican private interests. PAA originally held 36 per cent of the stock but isbelieved 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 Jose and alsoroutes to Panama, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, Mexico. Cayman Islands, Cuba and Miami.Head Office: Apartado 1531, San Jose, Costa Rica.Executives: F. Teran, president; F. Bonilla, general manager; C. Hoist, operations managerand ch'ef pilot. Fleet: four DC-3, four C-46, two Convair 340. Lineas Aereas de California—LAC wasformed in 1958 and operates a regular service between Ensenada and Mexico City viaDurango and Tepic. Head Office: Ensenada, Mexico.Executives: J. Tighman, president; C. Cervantes, general manager. Fleet: two C-46. Lineas Aereas de Cuyo have been licensed tooperate scheduled services from Mendoza to points within Argentina and to Santiago deChile. Head Office: iMendoza, Argentina.Fleet: Heron, Aero Commander, Convair 340. 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 bv 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. Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua S.A.—LANICAwas founded in June 1945 with Pan American Airways holding 40 per cent of the company'scapital (now 20 per cent). 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, and operates inter- national services using Viscounts to Florida,Ecuador and Peru. Head Office: Managua, Nicaragua.Executives: Col. L. A. Somoza, president; A. Sacasa, vice-president; F. P. Powers, vice-president; F. Gaitan, treasurer; C. A. Telloria, secretary.Fleet: two Viscount, seven DC-3, two C-46, one Ryan Navion, one Beech. Lineas Aereas Espanolas—see CompaniaMercantil Anonime Iberia. Lineas Aereas Unidas S.A.—LAUSA wasfounded in 1951 and operates within Mexico. Head Office: Mexico City, Mexico.Fleet: three DC-3. , " • Lineas Expresa Bolivar Compania Anonima— LEBCA operates freight sen'ices betweenCaracas and Miami. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela.Executives: H. Perez, chairman. Fleet: three C-46, three C-82. Lineas Interamericanos Aereas Ltda. has operated internal services within Colombiasince 1950. Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Executive: G. D. Granados, president.Fleet: three C-46. 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, Palmero 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 inaugurated in July 1950. In 1957 LAI wasmerged into Alitalia (see). At the time of the merger LAI's system included domestic andEuropean operations and routes to Boston, New York, Tel Aviv and Teheran. Linjeflyg A.B. was founded in 1957 to operatedomestic passenger services in Sweden and to take over newspaper delivery services fromanother carrier, Airtaco. Charter and ambu- lance work is also undertaken. Linjeflyg isjointly owned by SAS and two leading Swedish newspapers.Head Office: Bromma, Stockholm, Sweden. Executives: A. Rusck, chairman, S. Ostling,president; A. Weimer, technical and operations manager; C. O. Munkberg, commercialmanager; T. Andersson, flight superintendent; A. Ericsson, traffic and sales manager.Employees: 270. Fleet: ten DC-3, two Lodestar. Lloyd Aereo Colombiano—LAC is a smallcompany operating internally within Colombia and to Miami. In 1956 an order was placed forthree Viscounts, but delivery was never taken. Head Office: Bogota, Colombia.Fleet: one DC-3, three C-46. Lloyd Aero Boliviano S.A.—LAB was foundedby German colonists on September 14, 1925, and opened in that year a route betweenCochabamba and Santa Cruz. Junkers F13s were used on these first services. The companywas taken over as the Bolivian national airline in 1941 and Panagra was given a contract toadminister the airline. The government of Bolivia still holds most of the stock of LAB, buta 20 per cent minority holding is owned by Panagra.The airline operates a network of domestic services and also routes to Arica in Chile, andSalta, Argentina. Head Office: Cochabamba. Bolivia.Executives: Edmundo Gonzalez, president; Rodolfo Galindo, general manager.Fleet: seven DC-3, two DC-4, six Boeing B-17. Loftleidir H. F., formed in 1944, has operatedservices within Iceland and between Iceland and other European destinations, but now con-fines its activities to the operation of North Atlantic services between New York and Scan-dinavia, Germany and Luxembourg via Iceland. The company trades under the name IcelandicAirlines. Fares are below I.A.T.A. economy-class rates,although the sectors east of Iceland have I.A.T.A.-agreed fares.Head Office: Reykjavik, Iceland. Executives: K. Gudlaugsson, chairman; A.Eliasson, general manager. Fleet: two DC-4 (including one leased fromBraathens).
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