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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 489 Named "Chateau de Fontainebleau" this 707 is the third of Air France's fleet of 17 out non-scheduled flying, mainly with Piper Apaches.Head Office: 15, Surinamestraat, The Hague, Netherlands.Executives: B. A. M. Schreiner, managing director; Dr H. Van Zanten, E. J. W. Schuller, managers. Employees: 110.Fleet: two Piper Apache, four Harvard, two Auster, one Stinson, three Bell 47J, two Bell47G2, one Djinn, two Alouette, two Kolibrie, two Hiller UH-12E. Aero Enterprises Inc is an Alaskan non-scheduled carrier, no recent news of which is available.Head Office: Anchorage, Alaska. •••>»• Fleet: one Douglas B-18. Aero-Nord Sweden AB operates schedulednewspaper and limited passenger services within Sweden. Ambulance and aerial surveywork is also undertaken. Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden.Executives: P. O. Holmstrom, managing director. Fleet: two Aero Commander. ' Aero O/Y—Finnair was founded in 1923and began operations, with single-engined Junkers-F13 floatplanes, in 1924. Landplaneoperations began in 1936 when airports became available. Since the war Aero O/Y havedeveloped their European routes and also operate a domestic network in Finland.Head Office: Toolonkatu 4, Helsinki, Finland. Executives: L. Grandell, president; B. Aulin,vice-president technical. Fleet: three Caravelle, three Convair 340, threeConvair 440, 10 DC-3. Aero Transport was founded early in 1958 tooperate charter services from Austria. The company is believed to be associated with Luft-transport Unternehmen—LTU. Head Office: yienna, Austria.Fleet: one Viking. Aero Transportes SA—ATSA was establishedin 1943 and began scheduled services in 1944. Services were suspended in the following yearand resumed in January 1947. The company now operates a return service thrice-weekly be-tween Monterrey and Brownsville/Matamoros (Mexico-Texas border).Head Office: 117A Avenida Juarez, Mexico City, Mexico.Executives: R. O'Farrill, president; H. J. Filsinger, general manager; J. P. Centella, salesmanager. Fleet: one DC-4 (leased from CMA).Aeroactividades Venezolanas SA operates charter and taxi services.Fleet: five Cessna 180, eight Helio H-391 Courier. Aeroflot-Grazdanskij Wozdusnyj Flot is theSoviet airline, but it is not truly comparable with the airlines of the West, as in addition tooperating passenger, freight and mail services, it is responsible for all aspects of civil aviation.Among its many activities are agricultural, survey and ambulance flying. In 1929 thepioneer Soviet airlines were amalgamated to form Dobrolet, which in 1932 was reorganizedand became Aeroflot. The airline now operates an extensive mure network within the USSR,to neighbouring Communist countries and to London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Stock-holm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Cairo, Kabul and Delhi. Tu-104s are in use on most trunkroutes and are being increasingly supplemented by Il-18s; An-lOAs are also in use.Head Office: 9 Rasina St, Moscow, USSR. Executives: General E. F. Loginov, directorgeneral; Lt-Gen N. A. Zakharov, deputy director general.Fleet: Tu-114 Rossiya, Tu-104, 11-18 Moskva, An-lOA Ukraina, 11-14, 11-12, Li-2, An-2,Po-2, 11-20, Yak 12R and other types. Aerolineas Argentinas-Empresa del Estadowas founded as a state corporation in May 1949 by the Ministry of Transport to take over theoperations of FAMA, ALFA, Aeroposta and ZONDA. These companies ceased operationson December 31, 1949, and merged to form Aerolineas Argentinas. The airline maintains adomestic network and international services to neighbouring South American countries, Cuba,the USA and Europe. Head Office: 185 Paseo Colon, Buenos Aires,Argentina. Executives: A. E. Llavallol, chairman; BrigM. Moragues, president; Dr A. M. Lago- marsino, vice-president; J. Carlos MasonLugones, general manager; D. P. Albano, operations manager; G. A. Zalazar, economicplanning manager. Fleet: four Comet 4, five DC-6, six DC-4, fourConvair 240, 15 DC-3, six Sandringham. On order: 10 F.27. Aerolineas Colonia SA have received authorityto open a service between Colonia and Buenos Aires. No recent news of this carrieris available. Head Office: Colonia, Uruguay. Aerolineas Ini & Cia SA was formed in 1958and was authorized to operate DC-4s from Buenos Aires to Miami and Santiago de Chile.A once-weekly service is now operated at fares below IATA rates, and stopping at Anto-fagasta, Lima, Guayaquil and Panama City. Head Office: Corrientes 1994, Buenos Aires,Argentina. Fleet: DC-4. Aerolineas Mexicanas SA is operating domes-tic services linking Mexico City with points in northern and central Mexico.Head Office: 52 Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico. Executives: R. Alcantara, president; R. Torres,operations manager. - - • Fleet: five DC-3, two DC-4. Aerolineas Nacionales SA was founded in1958 to operate internal services within Costa Rica.Head Office: San Jose, Costa Rica. Executives: Capt M. E. Guarra, president. Fleet: one C-46. Aerolineas Peruanas SA—APSA operates low-fare DC-6 services from Tegucigalpa (Hon- duras) to Guayaquil, Lima, Santiago andBuenos Aires in conjunction with TAN Air- lines of Honduras, which operates to Miami,thus allowing a through service from Miami to Buenos Aires. Subject to Government appro-val, APSA will continue on to Buenos Aires the Miami - Lima services of Aerovias PanamaAirways and Cia Ecuatoriana de Aviacion, thus allowing a second low-fare Miami -Buenos Aires service. Head Office: 700 Avenue Nicolas de Pierola,Lima, Peru. Fleet: one DC-6, two DC-3, one C-46. Onorder; two Lockheed Electra (1960). Aeronaves del Balsas SA—ABSA was formedin 1959, and operates services from Mexico City to Morelia, Uruapan, Colima, Manzanilloand Guadalajara and from Morelia to Huetamo, Ajuchitian and Iguala. It is not known whatequipment is used. Head Office: 2a Degollado No 109, Morelia,Mexico. Aeronaves de Mexico SA was established onSeptember 1, 1934, and began operating be- tween Mexico City and Acapulco. Its early fleetconsisted of a three-engined Stinson, three Bellanca Pacemakers and a Fairchild 24. Theairline now has a route network of about 6,500 miles within Mexico. In 1952 Aeronavesbought LAMSA (founded in 1934) from United Air Lines and in 1954 the company alsoacquired Aerovias Reforma, which had been founded in 1945. In 1956 Aeronaves placedBritannias into service between Mexico City and New York. Since 1958 Aeronaves andMexicana have been working in close asso- ciation, the Britannias also have been placedon to Mexicana's service to Los Angeles. Head Office: Mariano Escobeda No 491,Mexico City, Mexico. Executives: A. D. Lombardo, president; C.Ramos, general manager; R. L. Johnson, operations manager; M. Munoz, traffic andsales manager. Fleet: two Britannia 302, two L.749A, sixDC-6, three DC-4, four Convair 340, 26 DC-3. Aeronorte—Empresa de Transportes AereosNorte do Brasil SA began operations in 1950 and operates a network of feeder services inthe north-east of the country. Percival Prince aircraft were used originally but the presentschedules are worked by DC-3s. In 1953 Real acquired control of the company but Aeronorteworks as a separate division. Head Office: Sao Luiz, Brazil.Executives: Commandante L. Gomes, presi- dent; N. Freire, general manager.Fleet: four DC-3. Aeropa SA is a Swiss company established in1958 to operate charter services in Europe. Head Office: Basle, Switzerland.Executive: J. Bachrnann, board chairman. Fleet: two Super 46C. Aerotaxi—-see AVIANCA. " ' ' Aerqtechnique SA operates non-scheduledservices from Algeria. Head Office: 21 Boulevard Marcel Duclos,Algiers. Air Liban's DC-6Cs fly from Beirut to Paris and also to West Africa
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