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556 FLIGHT, 17 April 1959 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. Transportes Aereos Portugueses S.A.R.L.—TAP was organized in 1944 as a division of the Civil Aviation Department. Its firstroute, between Lisbon and Madrid, was opened in September 1946. Services to Angola andMozambique were opened in the following year. A large part of the stock of TAP is nowprivately owned. The company operates ser- vices between Lisbon and Oporto and inter-national services to Tangier, Casablanca, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, London, Kano, Leo-poldville, Luanda and Lourenco Marques. Head Office: 2 Rua Braemcamp, Lisbon,Portugal. Executives: E. Coelho, executive general secre-tary; J. de Abreu, commercial manager; R. de Avelar, operations superintendent; J. C.Ferreira, maintenance superintendent. Fleet: four DC-3, three DC-4, three L.1049G. Transportes Aereos Salvador Ltda.—TASstarted as a charter operator in 1949 and began scheduled operations within the State of Bahiain 1953. TAS has since been absorbed into Real. Transportes Aeriens du Gabon (Air Gabon)began regular operations in 1951 and now links a score of places in French Equatorial Africawith Libreville. Head Office: Libreville, Gabon.Fleet: two Rapide, two Cessna 170B, two Autocrat. Trust Territory Operations—see Trans-ocean Air Lines. Tunis Air, Societe Tunisienne de l'Air, wasfounded in 1948 by the Tunisian Government, Air France and other interests. It operates in-ternal services and routes to Algeria, Libya, Corsica, France and Italy.Head Office: 1 rue d'Athenes, Tunis, Tunisia. Executives: P. F. Delaunay, general manager;M. Tonnelle, commercial manager; M. Gauthier, technical manager.Fleet: two DC-4, three DC-3. r : . Turk Hava Yollari—THY, formerly known asDevlet Hava Yollari (Turkish State Air Lines), was set up by the Government in 1933 as partof the Ministry of Defence. Control passed to the Ministry of Communications in 1938 until1956 when it became a corporation bearing its present title Turk Hava Yollari AnonimOrtakligi (Turkish Airlines Inc.). The airline now operates an internal network of passengerservices and a freight service between Istanbul and Ankara. International routes areto Nicosia, Beirut and Athens. Head Office: Ankara, Turkey.Executives: Ulvi Yenal, general manager; Hiiseyin Unsal, assistant general manager;Cevdet Akbas, secretary general; Hiiseyin Yegin, technical manager; Necmi Aran, com-mercial manager; Turgut Sayar, accounting manager; Suphi Ozoran, supply manager;Selcuk Irdem, personnel manager. Employees: 1,420.Fleet: 21 DC-3, seven Heron, five Viscount. Transporturi Aeriene Romine—see TAROM. UAT—see Union Aeromaritime de Transport. Trans-Texas Airways—TTA was founded in1944 as Aviation Enterprises and began scheduled operation in October 1947. Theairline now has about 3,000 miles of routes within Texas and between that state andLouisiana, Tennessee and Arkansas. Head Office: Houston, Texas, U.S.A.Executives: R. E. McKaughan, president; H. E. Erdmann, vice-president operations;L. J. Eichner, vice-president traffic and sales; M. L. Muse, secretary /treasurer,Fleet: 18 DC-3. Trans World Airlines—TWA claims its originin Western Air Express, which was founded in 1925 to bid for an air mail route from LosAngeles to Salt Lake City. WAE began mail service in 1926. In 1929 Transcontinental AirTransport, which had inaugurated a combined rail-air transcontinental route, obtained controlof Maddux Air Lines. At about the same time Western Air Express absorbed Standard AirLines and then on October 1, 1930, TAT- Maddux and Western Air Express completeda merger to form Transcontinental and Western Air, Inc. (TWA). In 1934, reconstitution fol-. lowed the Post Office mail-flying upheaval, and it took its present title in 1950. TWA has beenresponsible for the initiation of some fine aircraft, having issued the specification for theDouglas DC-l/DC-2, the Stratoliner and the Constellation. TWA now has more than 50,000miles of routes stretching from coast to coast of the U.S.A.; across the North Atlantic toEurope, North Africa, Asia and the Far East. In 1958 the company inaugurated a one-carrierservice between California and Florida. Head Office: New York, N.Y., U.S.A.Executives: Warren Lee Pierson, chairman; Charles S. Thomas, president; A. V. Leslie,senior vice-president finance; E. O. Cocke, senior vice-president sales.Employees: 18,000. Fleet: 28 L.1049G, nine L.1049A, 71 Con-stellation, six DC-4, five DC-3, 7 Martin 2-0-2, 36 Martin 4-0-4, one Fairchild C-82, 29L.1649A. On order: 30 Convair 880 (1960), 15 Boeing 707-120 (current), 18 Boeing707-331. Trek Airways was formed in 1953 and operatesnon-scheduled services between Europe and South Africa. Over 6,000 passengers werecarried on this route last year. This year's programme is based on five round flights permonth. Head Office: Yorkshire House, cor. Rissik andMarshall Streets, Johannesburg, South Africa. Executives: W. B. Rorke, financial director;Capt. T. Meredith, operations director; General F. W. von Mellenthin, commercial director;Capt. C. H. Snelgar, technical director. Employees: 142.Fleet: two DC-4, one Viking. Ukamps, the North Korean airline, is suc-cessor to Sokao, the Soviet-North Korean air- line, which was founded in 1950 to connectNorth Korea with Aeroflot's services to and from Moscow. Services were suspended whenNorth Korea invaded South Korea and opera- tions were resumed in 1953.Ukamps, described as Ministry of Com- munications of Korean Democratic People'sRepublic, now operates between Pyong-Yang and Mukden, and as part of the AeroflotMoscow route, between Pyong-Yang and Chita. Head Office: Pyong-Yang, Korean DemocraticRepublic. Fleet: Li-2, 11-14. UMCA—see Uraba, Medellin and CentralAirways Inc. Union Aeromaritime de Transport—UAT orAeromaria'me—was founded in 1949 and is connected with Cie. Maritime des Char^eursReunis. Services were opened to French Equa- torial Africa and to Saigon. Comets were intro-duced in 1953, but subseauently withdrawn. Since January 1, 1955, UAT "has had therights for the operation of all French services to Rhodesia, Mozambique and the Union of SouthAfrica, and the company is operating between Paris and Johannesburg. UAT also has 46Der cent of the traffic over the coastal routes from France and North Africa to Senegal,French Guinea and the Ivory Coast. In Afrique Noire there is to be equal distribution of trafficbetween UAT and Air France. A UAT subsidiary, Aeromaritime, oper-ates a network of feeder services in West Africa. Head Office: Le Bourget, nr. Paris, France.Executives: L. Vidal, president; J. Combard and R. Loubry, directors. Fleet: nine DC-6A/B, one DC-4, eight Heron,nine Noratlas. On order: two DC-8 (1960). United's DC-8s will be delivered later this year Union of Burma Airways—UBA was organizedin 1948 with the Burmese Government sub- scribing 90 per cent of the capital. UBA oper-ates domestic services and has international routes to Calcutta, East Pakistan, Thailand,Penang and Singapore. Head Office: Rangoon, Burma.Executives: U. Chit, chairman; U. Taw, general manager; B. G. Jones, eng. superintendent.Fleet: 13 DC-3, three Dove, two Marathon, one Canso, three Viscount 761. United Air Lines Inc.—UAL was organizedon July 1, 1931, as a management company for Boeing Air Transport, Pacific Air Trans-port, National Air Transport and Varney Air Lines. These companies enable United to claimcontinuous operation back to 4926 when Varney began service. In 1933 Unitedpioneered the use of the low-wing twin-engined metal monoplane when it introduced Boeing247s on its coast to coast route, cutting the journey time to 19i hr. UAL became an opera-ting company in its own right on May 1, 1934, following the Post Office mail contract fiasco.In 1947 United opened a route from San Francisco to Honolulu and the company's pre-sent network extends from coast to coast over a number of routes. Hawaii is served fromboth San Francisco and Los Angeles. Head Office: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.Executives: W. A. Patterson, president; J. A. Herlihy, senior vice-president, engineering andmaintenance; D. F. Magarrel, senior vice- president, transportation services; D. R. Petty,senior vice-president, flight operations; R. E. Johnson, senior vice-president, sales and publicrelations; Curtis Barkes, senior vice-president, finance and property; R. F. Ahrens, senior vice-president, personnel; H. E. Nourse, senior vice-president, economic controls; S. P.Martin, secretary of the corporation and assist- ant to the president; A. M. de Voursney, vice-president and treasurer. Employees: 20,000. Fleet: seven DC-6A, 41 DC-6B. 42 DC-6, 52Convair 340 and 55 DC-7. On order: 40 Douglas DC-8 (summer 1959), 11 Boeing 720(1960). United Helicopters Ltd.—see Okanagan Heli- copters Ltd. United States Overseas Airlines Inc. concen-trates on transatlantic and transcontinental charter flights. Head Office: Wildwood, N.J., U.S.A.Executives: R. W. Cox, president; R. L. McSweeney, secretary.Fleet: nine C-54, two L.1049H, one DC-6B. Universal Airlines is the operating nameadopted by S.S.W. Inc., a U.S. charter operator.Head Office: Burbank, California. Fleet: two DC-4, two C-46. Uraba, Medellin and Central Airways Inc.—UMCA operates Convair 240s thrice weekly between Balbao and Medellin. UMCA wasfounded in 1931, as a Pan American World Airways' subsidiary and operates its serviceswith aircraft leased from PanAm. Head Office: Medellin, Colombia.Executives: E. Balluder, president; R. G. Ferguson, treasurer; J. A. Mannion, secretary.Fleet: Convair 240 leased from PanAm. Varig—S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea RioGrandsnse was founded in 1927, with the tech-
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