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FLIGHT, 17 April 1959 549 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. merger of Mont Laurier Aviation and BorealAirways. The company was subsequently acquired by Maritime Central Airways. Inaddition to charter flights a regular service is operated between Montreal and the northQuebec/Baffin Island area. The main bases are situated at Roberval and Fort Chimo.Head Office: Montreal, P.Q., Canada. Executives: A. Crepean, president; J. F.Henley, general manager; E. Asselin, secretary- treasurer.Fleet: one DC-4, one C-46, three DC-3, three Canso, three Norseman, three Beaver, twoothers. Norsur—Empresa Argentina de Aeronaviga-tion Norsur operates domestic freight services within Argentina. Expansion to neighbouringforeign territories is planned. North Central Airlines Inc. was establishedin 1944 as Wisconsin Central Airlines. Appro- val for the operation of routes from Chicago tocities in Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and Upper Michigan was given in 1946 and opera-tions were begun with Lockheed Electras in February 1948. The company adopted its pre-sent name at the end of 1952, now operates 4,987 miles of routes in nine upper midweststates and is the largest U.S. local service carrier. Last year this company carried 750,000passengers. Head Office: Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.Executives: H. N. Carr, president; B. Sweet, secretary/treasurer; F. N. Buttomer, vice-president traffic and sales; A. D. Niemeyer, vice-president operations; R. H. Bendio, vice-president maintenance and engineering; A. E. Schwandt, vice-president industrial relations.Employees: 1,200. Fleet: 32 DC-3, five Convair 340. Northeast Airlines Inc.—NEA serves the NewEngland area and has routes extending from Montreal through Boston, New York, andWashington to Florida. The company was established by the Boston and Maine CentralRailroads as Boston-Maine Airways, and ser- vices were begun between Boston and Water-ville on August 11, 1933. The present name was taken in 1940.Head Office: Boston, Mass, U.S.A. Executives: James W. Austin, president;D. W. H. MacKinnon, vice-pres. engineering and maintenance; A. A. Lane, vice-pres. opera-tions; H. Heard, vice-pres. finance; R. H. Keer, vice-pres. personnel; R. P. Lane, treasurer.Fleet: 11 DC-3, 10 DC-6B, 10 Viscount 745D. Northern Airlines operate intrastate services from Fargo, North Dakota, to Minot and Duluth.Head Office: Fargo, North Dakota. Fleet: Aero Commanders. Northern Consolidated Airlines was foundedin 1945 to integrate the operations of a number of small airlines in southwest Alaska.The company has about 3,000 miles of routes worked by scheduled and non-scheduled flights.Head Office: Anchorage, Alaska. Executives: R. I. Petersen, president/generalmanager; S. B. Fitzhugh, vice-president/ treasurer; V. R. Davis, secretary/generaltraffic manager; W. R. Rice, operations man- ager; L. P. Fritz, general sales manager.Employees: 153. Fleet: one DC-3, 10 Cessna T-50, three F-27. Northern Wings Ltd.—Les Ailes du NordLtee flies non-scheduled services in eastern Canada and a regular service of about 400 milesfrom Seven Islands to Blanc Sablon on the Quebec/Labrador border. A subsidiary com-pany, Northern Wings Helicopters, operates four Bell 47 on charter.Head Office: Quebec, P.Q., Canada. Executives: Dr. G. Cyr, president; H. Beaupre,secretary; J. L. Roy, controller; T. Coghlan, general manager. Fleet: two DC-3, two Canso, three Norseman,five Beaver, one Beech 17, one Anson V, four Bell 47. North Japan Koku K.K. has recently in-augurated a limited domestic network. Head Office: Hokkaido, Sapporo.Fleet: three Cessna, one DC-3. Northwest Airlines Irjc.—NWA was in-corporated on August 1, 1926, as Northwest Airways and mail services were begun betweenMinneapolis/St. Paul and Chicago on October 1 that year, using a leased Curtiss Oriole and aThomas Morse. The company's first owned fleet consisted of three Stinson Detroiters pur-chased in 1926 and the first passenger services were opened in July 1927. The present corporate name was adopted in1934. For publicity purposes the airline trades as Northwest Orient Airlines. By 1945 a trans-continental route had been established and in 1947 the company began services to the FarEast. In 1948 Washington and Honolulu were added to the network and in 1950 Edmontonand Formosa were added. The present system comprises 20,000 miles of routes stretchingfrom coast to coast of the U.S.A.; into Canada and Alaska; to Hawaii; and across the Pacificto Japan, South Korea, Okinawa, Manila, For- mosa and Hong Kong. In 1958 Northwestwas given permission to extend its domestic network to Florida. Head Office: St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.Executives: C. Hunter, chairman; D. W. Nyrop, president; M. S. Mackay, executivevice-president; F. C. Judd, vice-president ' operations and engineering; G. M. Bain, vice-president sales; L. S. Holstad, comptroller; W. J. Eiden, treasurer.Employees: 6,000. Fleet: 15 DC-7C, four L.1049G, nine Strato-cruiser, 20 DC-6B, 11 DC-4, one DC-3. On order: five DC-8, 10 Electra. Okanagan Helicopters Ltd. was founded in1947 by Carl Agar to conduct fruit-spraying by helicopter. Development of mechanicalsprayers necessitated a switch of emphasis to other activities. Two important operationstoday are provision of transport for Alcan's construction scheme at Kilimat and patrol ofoil pipelines. In 1955 Okanagan expanded by acquiring Renting Aviation's fleet of 16 Bell47s and seven S-55s and by acquiring Canadian Helicopters, Ltd. A subsidiary, United Heli-copters Ltd., is based at Torbay, Newfound- land, and operates two S-55s on charter.Together with its associated companies, Okana- gan is the world's largest operator of heli-copters. The Abitibi Power and Paper Co., through Canadian Helicopters, is believed tohave a substantial share in this company. Head Office: Vancouver, B.C., Canada.Executives: G. W. McPherson, president; Carl Agar, vice-president research/training; A.Stringer, vice-president operations; H. Greene, secretary/treasurer.Fleet: 36 Bell 47, 20 S-55, one S-58. Olsen Air Transport—see Fred Olsen Air- transport Ltd. Olympic Airways, S.A. took over TAE's assets,National Greek Airlines, in April 1957 (TAE was founded in 1951 by the amalgamation ofTAE, Hellenic Airlines, and AME. Because of financial difficulties the company was takenover by the Greek Government in June 1955). Olympic Airways is owned by Mr. A. Onassis.Domestic services link all principal cities and islands of Greece while international servicesare operated between Greece and Italy, France, England, Germany, Switzerland,Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Sudan and Lebanon.Head Office: 6 Othonos Str., Athens, Greece. Executives: Th. Garofalidis, president, S.Damaskinos, general manager; J. Papadakis, sales manager; Ch. Mayrokefalos, trafficmanager; C. Danis, technical manager; M. Brahalis, financial manager.Employees: 1,219. Fleet: 14 DC-3, two DC-4, three DC-6B, oneFairchild Argus. On order: two DC-8! Ontario Central Airlines Ltd.—OCA operateamphibious and regular charter services in North Western Ontario from bases at Kenora, Ball Lake, and Red Lake, Ontario.Head Office: 221 Main St., Kenora, Ontario. Executives: B. Lamm, president and generalmanager. Employees: 30.Fleet: eight Norseman, one Grumman Goose, one Beechcraft, four Cessna 180 and one CansoPBY5. Ostermans Aero A.B. was formed in 1943 andhas since 1947 been operating helicopters. Most of the company's work is of a contract naturebut every winter since 1948 Ostermans have operated regular mail service between Stock-holm and numerous points in the Stockholm archipelago. This service has been operatedwith very high standards of reliability and regularity. During 1955 the company operatedS-55 services, for a short time, between Sweden and Denmark.Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden. Executives: N. Billing, managing president.Employees: 80. Fleet: "one S-55, 17 Bell 47, two Seabee. Osterreichische Lufrverkehrs A.G. — see Austrian Airlines. Overseas National Airways Inc. is one ofthe biggest large irregular carriers in the U.S. Its fleet carry out frequent trans-Pacific militarycharter flights. Head Office: Friendship International Airport,Maryland. Executives: G. W. Tompkins, president; J. R.Forrest, vice-president/treasurer; A. Goldberg, vice-president engineering and maintenanceand operations manager. Fleet: four DC-6A. Ozark Air Lines Inc. was incorporatedunder the laws of the State of Missouri on September 1, 1943, and filed applications forC.A.B. certificate to serve 28 cities in six states. Charter and intra-state services in Missourioperated during 1944 and 1945. Ozark was awarded a three-year certificate in 1950, tookover the assets and staff of Parks Air Lines and began scheduled operations between St. Louisand Chicago on September 26, 1950. The company now has permanent certifica-tion and operates 5,273 miles of routes serving 52 cities in ten Mid-West states.Head Office: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Executives: L. Hamilton, chairman/president;F. Jones, vice-president and treasurer; A. G. Heyne, secretary.Fleet: 24 DC-3. On order: three F-27. PanAm started 707 services last October PAB—see Panair do Brasil. Pacific Air Lines was founded as SouthwestAirways Company in 1941 and began airline operations at the end of 1946 when it openedits San Francisco - Los Angeles route. The company now has 1,300 miles of routes allwithin California, except for its services to Medford in the south of Oregon and to LasVegas, Nevada. Southwest was a pioneer of the quick turn-round at intermediate points withstops of only one to two minutes. At refuelling stops the turn-round time is six minutes. Thepresent title was adopted early in 1958. Head Office: International Airport, SanFrancisco, Cal., U.S.A. Executives: L. Hayward, chairman; J. H.Connelly, president; T. R. Mitchell, executive
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