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554 FLIGHT, 17 April 1959 An artist's impression of the Vanguard in TCA colours • •#•' WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. SAHSA, began charter operations in 1931 andbecame part of the TACA System in 1932. Scheduled services were begun in 1944. TheTACA System sold its interests in the company in 1948. The company operates a domesticnetwork of services. Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Executives: A. Rodriguez, president; W. A. Buxbaum, treasurer; C. A. Garcia, secretary.Fleet: 10 DC-3. TACA de Venezuela ceased operations inmid-1957, being absorbed finally into LAV (see). TACA International Airlines S.A. wasfounded in Salvador in 1939 as a subsidiary of the U.S. TACA Corporation. AlthoughTACA once controlled a number of airlines, TACA International is now the only one stilloperated by the Corporation. Routes extend from New Orleans and Mexico City throughGuatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa and Managua to San Jose, in Costa Rica, andPanama. A scheduled freight service is oper- ated once a week between New Orleans andGuatemala. Route mileage is 3,980. Head Office: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.(operating from San Salvador). Executives: R. H. Kreite, president; R. E.Clipson, vice-president operations.; J. D. Brock, vice-president traffic; W. B. Daly, treasurer;E. Canas, secretary. Fleet: two DC-4, one Viscount, one C-46. TAE—see Olympic Airways. 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 monthsand during the winter the fleet is based on Miami and services sre operated to FortLauderdale, Boca Raton, Stuart, Key Largo and Marathon. The company is a subsidiaryof the Miller Oil Co. 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. TAI—Compagnie de Transports AeriensIntercontinentaux was formed after World War II as a charter operator, closely associatedwith shipping companies and later established regular scheduled services to various Frenchterritories abroad. In January 1957 TAI was allotted 60 per cent of the traffic betweenFrance and North Africa and the eastern part of French West Africa; 50 per cent to Djibouti,Madagascar and Reunion; and 10 per cent between France and Morocco. The company has also been made respon-sible for the development of French services to Indonesia, Ceylon, Australia and the SouthPacific. The Air France services to Australia and New Caledonia were taken over in 1956and early last year a new route was opened to New Zealand. Head Office: 23 Rue de la Paix, Paris, France.Executives: P. Bernard, president; General G. Fayet, director-general; M. Mathieu,secretary - general; M. Gaffie, commercial director.Employees: 1,276. Fleet: four DC-6B, three DC-7C, one DC-6,four DC-3. On order : two DC-8. TAROM—Transporturi Aeriene Homing(Rumanian Air Lines) is the Rumanian State airline which in 1954 succeeded the jointSoviet - Rumanian TARS, which was formed in 1946. TAROM has about 5,000 miles ofroutes and operates services within Rumania and to Budapest, Belgrade, Prague and Berlin.Head Office: Bucharest, Rumania. Executives: Ing. Stingaciu, manager; GheorgheVaduva, asst. manager; S. Andrei, chief engineer.Fleet: Li-2,11-12, 11-14. TAS—see Transportes Aereos Salvador Ltda. Tasman Empire Airways Ltd.—TEAL wasformed in 1940 as a joint British-Australian- New Zealand company for the operation ofservices linking New Zealand and Australia. Operating Short C-dass flying-boats, it main-tained during the war the only regular pas- senger service of any kind between the twocountries. In 1954 Britain withdrew and TEAL is now owned jointly by the New Zealand andAustralian Governments. 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 Island. The company has 10,022 miles of routes in operation.Head Office: Auckland, New Zealand. Executives: Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman; F. AReeves, general manager; J. W. Veale, asst. general manager; K. A. Brownjohn, operationsmanager; D. W. Banks, secretary; A. A. Wat- son, accountant.Employees: 829. Fleet: three DC-6, one Solent. On order, threeElectra. Taxi Aereo de Santander—Taxader operatenon-scheduled services in northeast Brazil. Head Office: San Luiz, Brazil.Fleet: two Beaver, one Stinson, four Rapide, two Cessna 180, three DC-3. TCA—see Trans-Canada Air Lines. TEAL—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, Vientiane,Saigon, Phnompenh, Siemreap and Penang. Head Office: 6 Jam Juang Rd., Bangkok.Executives: C. Watenangura, chairman; P. Limpisvasti, vice-chairman; P. Suchiva, actingmanaging director. Fleet: three DC-4, seven DC-3, three L.1049G,one Bonanza. Timmins Aviation Ltd. operate charter ser-vices and also operate an overhaul base. Head Office: Montreal, Canada.Executives: J. A. Timmins, president; J. J. Shannon, vice-president-treasurer.Fleet: two Canso, one Beech 18, one Bonanza, one Bellanca, two Royal Gull, one Lodestar,one Dove, one Cessna 180. Tourist Air Travel inaugurated a thrice-weekly service between Wellington and Waiheke Island in October 1957. Trabajos Aereos y Enlaces—TAE thisSpanish company has on occasions been des- cribed as a prospective buyer for variousBritish aircraft. Trabajos Aereos y Representaciones S.A. is one of South America's leading charter heli-copter operators. Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina.Fleet: nine Bell 47. Transa Chile—Sociedad de TransportesAereos de Chile Ltda.—operates a regular Service from Santiago to Arica.Head Office: Santiago, Chile. Executives: F. O. Devoto, president; M. C.Fischer, executive vice-president. Fleet: three-C-46, two Canso. Trans-Air Ltd. was formed in 1956 by themerger of Central Northern Airways and Arctic Wings. CNA was formed in 1947 toacquire and operate some bush routes formerly operated, in Saskatchewan, Manitoba andOntario by Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Arctic Wings, based at Churchill on Hudson Bay,had been operating scheduled passenger and mail flights north to Baker Lake and south toFort Severn. Trans-Air at present operates scheduled services from Winnipeg terminatingat Flin Flon, Lynn Lake, Ottawa, Montreal and Red Lake. Trans-Air also operate regularservices linking Manitoba and Western Ontario to the northern territories.Head Office: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Executives: G. H. Sellers, chairman; R. D.Turner, president; A. G. Bailey, vice-president; F. C. McKay, secretary-treasurer; J. C. Twist,manager airline division; U. S. Wagner, asst. general manager. Fleet: one Anson, three Beaver, one Bellanca66-75, four Canso, four Cessna, three DC-3, one DC-4, one Lockheed 12A, ten Norseman,one York. Transair Sweden AB operate inclusive toursfor the majority of the Swedish travel agen- cies, charter flying with passengers and freightwithin Europe, Africa and Asia; domestic night air mail and geological survey.Head Office: Bromma Airport, Stockholm, Sweden.Executives: P. Loven, managing director; TWA's 707s are no* in transcontinental operation TAN Airlines—see Nacionales S.A. Transportes Aereos TAP—see Transportes Aereos Portugueses orTransportes Aereos Paraense.
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