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550 FLIGHT, 17 April 1959 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. vice-president; E. Roger Dahl, treasurer; R. E.Costello, vice-president traffic; M, A. King, vice-president sales.Employees: 400. Fleet: 11 DC 3, seven Martin 2-0-2. On order: six F-27. Pacific Northern Airlines—PNA was formedin 1932 as Woodley Airways. A post office mail contract was awarded in 1934 and in 1938 theairline received C.A.B. certification. The present company was incorporated in 1945 andin 1951 PNA was granted a certificate by C.A.B. to connect its Alaskan routes withSeattle - Tacoma and Portland. Services are now operated within Alaska and betweenAlaskan points and Seattle and Portland. Head Office: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.Executives: A. G. Woodley, president; J. A. Cunningham, vice-president operations; HaroldA. Olsen, vice-president traffic and sales; J. H. Foster, vice-president engineering and main-tenance; C. W. Nelson, secretary-treasurer. Fleet: five L.749 Constellation, one DC-4, fourDC-3. Pacific Southwest Airlines—PSA operatesservices linking San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco.Head Office: San Diego, Gal., U.S.A. Executives: K. G. Friedkin, president; H. N.Wood, traffic and sales manager; J. F. Andrews, chief of operations.Fleet: four DC-4. On order: three Electra. Pacific Western Airlines Ltd.—PWA wasfounded in 1946 as Central British Columbia Airways, and has become the third largest air-line in Canada by acquisition of Associated Airways at Edmonton, and Queen CharlotteAirlines at Vancouver. The company operates an extensive network of scheduled and non-scheduled routes throughout British Columbia, Alberta, the Yukon, the Northwest Territoriesand Alaska. PWA has also been one of the prime contractors operating the extensive airlift in connection with defence projects in Canada's extreme north. PWA has applied tooperate several class 1 routes in Western Canada presently served by other carriers.Head Office: Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Executives: Karl J. Springer, chairman andpresident; D. F. Granger, secretary/treasurer. Fleet: six DC-3, two C-46, two DC-4, 12Norseman, 23 Beaver, two Mallard, eight Cessna 180, 10 Bell 47.PAD—see Philippine Aviation Development. Pakistan International Air'ines Corporation—PIA was founded by the Government of Pakis- tan on April 1, 1955, when PIA took overOrient Airways. As a company PIA had been founded in 1951 to operate services to Europe;its first actual operations were between East and West Pakistan in 1954. Service to Londonwas begun early in 1955. The Corporation is responsible for the operation of all air serviceswithin Pakistan. Head Office: Karachi, Pakistan.Executives: A/C M. Nur Khan, managing director; M. M. Salim, chief administrationofficer; Capt. A. Masood, flight operations manager; J. S. Mirza, commercial manager.Employees: 3,611. Fleet: three L.1049C, two L.1049H, threeConvair 240, ten DC-3, five Viscount 815. PAL—see Philippine Air Lines. Panagra—see Pan American Grace Airways. Panair do Brasil S.A.—PAB. In October 1929the Brazilian Government authorized New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line Inc. (NYRBA) tooperate services in Brazil, and Nyrba do Brasil was created as a Brazilian subsidiary. A servicewas begun between Rio de Janeiro and Belem. In August 1930 Pan American Airways tookover both NYRBA and Nyrba do Brasil and the latter became Panair do Brasil on Septem-ber 15 that year. PAB developed services with Sikorsky S-38 and Consolidated Com-modore flying-boats. These were later replaced by Fairchild 91s and Sikorsky S-43s and,although Panair now operates an extensive Brazilian and South American route networkwith DC-3s and Constellations, Catalinas still operate the Amazon routes. Panair also operatesservices from South America to London, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Paris, Zurich, Rome,Madrid, Lisbon, Istanbul and Beirut. Head Office: Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Executives: Dr. A. H. Machado, president; Dr. C. P. de Mello, dir. superintendent; Dr. A. T.Filho, secretary. Employees: 4,000.Fleet: 11 L.749, 10 DC-3, four DC-7C, five Convair PBY-5A. On order: four DC-8. Pan American-Grace Airways Inc.—Panagrawas founded in 1928 by the Grace Shipping Line and Pan American Airways, the initialname being Peruvian Airways. In 1928 Pan American Airways was awarded a mail contractfor a service from Florida to PanamS, and in the following year Panagra successfully bid fora mail contract covering a route from Panama down the west coast of South America andacross the Andes to Buenos Aires. By the end of 1929 the complete route was in operation.The company's routes have been gradually extended and after a long fight has succeededin securing entry to New York through inter- change agreements with PanAm and NationalAirlines. Operating over the routes of the three companies Panagra DC-7Bs were intro-duced on August 1, 1955 and, under the title of El Interamericano and El Pacifico, dailyservices are flown between New York and Buenos Aires via Miami, Panama, Lima andSantiago. Head Office: 135 East 42nd St., New York.Executives: A. B. Shea, president; D. Camp- bell, vice-pres./gen. mgr.; L. H. Clifton, vice-president/comptroller; C. S. Collins, vice- president traffic and sales.Employees: 1,500. Fleet: one DC-3, two DC-4, five DC-6 (leasedto PanAm), four DC-6B owned, one DC-6B leased, five DC-7B (excludes one leased toanother airline). On order: four DC-8. Pan American World Airways Inc.—PanAmis the only major U.S. airline concerned entirely with overseas operation. Pan American AirwaysInc. was founded in March 1927 and began operation of its first route, between Key Westand Havana, in October 1927. Fokker mono- planes were used. PAA extended its opera-tion throughout the Caribbean and built up flying-boat services, which by 1931 had reachedthe Argentine. PAA was a great pioneer of transocean flying and by 1935 had establishedservices between San Francisco and Manila via Honolulu, Midway, Wake and Guam. HongKong was served from 1936. In 1937 New York - Bermuda services were opened in co-operation with Imperial Airways and in the same year the two companies began trans-atlantic survey flights. Passenger service began in 1939. The airline now operates a routenetwork covering about 69,000 miles, serves all continents and has regular round-the-worldflights. Pan American took its present title in 1949. The airline has absorbed a number ofother airlines including American Overseas Airlines and it has interests in numerous car-riers, particularly in Latin America. PanAm is also operating the 1,000 mile long missilerange, stretching from Florida to beyond Puerto Rico, for the U.S.A.F.Head Office: New York, U.S.A. Executives: J. T. Trippe, president; J. C. Leslie,vice-president administration; S. F. Pryor, vice- president/asst. to president; H. J. Friendly,vice-president/general counsel; W. L. Morri- son, vice-president Latin American Division;H. E. Gray, vice-president Atlantic Division; R. B. Murray, Jr., vice-president Pacific-AlaskaDivision. Employees: 23,000.Fleet: 23 Stratocruiser, 26 DC-7C, seven DC-7B, 43 DC-6B, four DC-6A, seven DC-4,three DC-3, six Boeing 707-121. On order: 21 DC-8 (1959), 17 Boeing 707-320 (1959). Papuan Air Transport Ltd. was founded in1952 and operates three Ansons from Port Moresby. Paraense Transportes Aereas S.A. was foundedin 1957 and last year started a scheduled service between Belem, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro.Head Office: Belem, Brazil. Executives: A. Ramos, president; F. de Barros, director.Fleet: C-46. Parsons Airways Ltd. operate charter services, mostly in Ontario.Head Office: P.O. Box 120, Kenoca, Ont. Executives: H. J. Parsons, president; W. K.Parsons, secretary-treasurer. Fleet: two Norseman, one Bellanca, one Cessna 180, one Cessna 170. Peninsular Air Transport is a U.S. supple-mental air carrier operating scheduled services on an irregular basis from Miami to St. Peters-burg, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee.Head Office: Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Persian Air Services operates freight servicesfrom Teheran to Beirut, Abadan, Brindisi and Basle using Yorks chartered from Trans-Mediterranean Airways. Head Office: 486 Ferdowsi Av., Teheran, Iran. Philippine Air Lines—PAL began in 1932as the Philippine Aerial Taxi Company. The company was reorganized and took its presentname in 1941. Following the war the com- pany developed its operations, and in 1947 and1948 PAL took over two other Philippine concerns—Far Eastern Air Transport andCommercial Air Lines. Long distance overseas services were inaugurated to Europe and acrossthe Pacific to the U.S.A., but in 1954 PAL suspended its long distance services and nowoperates only within the Philippine Republic and to Hong Kong although a resumption oflong distances to the U.S. is being reconsidered. Head Office: Plaza Cervantes, Manila, Republicof the Philippines. Executives: A. Soriano, president; A. Soriano,Jr., first vice-president; R. Ygoa, vice-president director; D. M. Gomez, vice-president.Employees: 2,052. Fleet: 23 DC-3, one Convair 340, four Otter,one Hiller UH-12B, two Viscount 784. On order: five Twin Pioneer, two F-27. Philippine Aviation Development—PAD isoperated by the Government to provide certain internal services.Head Office: Manila, Philippines. Fleet: five single-engined aircraft. PIA—see Pakistan International Airlines. Piedmont Airlines—see Piedmont Aviation. Piedmont Aviation Inc. was established in1940 as a fixed base operator and began local service operations in 1948. Trading as Pied-mont Airlines the company now has about 2,800 miles of routes in North and SouthCarolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Vir- ginia, Kentucky and Ohio.Head Office: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A. Executives: T. H. Davis, president/treasurer; R. D. Hager, vice-president traffic; H. K. Saunders, vice-president operations; M. F. Fare, secretary. Fleet: 21 DC-3. On order: eight F-27. Pakistan International are now operating their Viscounts from Karachi to Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay
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