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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 495 now operating as a non-scheduled carrier.Head Office: Burbank, Cal, USA. Executives: Col C. C. Sherman, president/director of operations; E. K. Sherman, secre- tary/treasurer.Fleet: two DC-3, two C-46. California Eastern Aviation Inc has widespreadinterests in the aviation industry. An Airways division carries out charter operations and hasa 25 per cent share in the Argentine carrier Transcontinental SA, for whom technical andoperational assistance has been provided. This division also plans to commence scheduledtrunk services within the US and various route applications have been put before the CAB.Another division operates freight training schools for the USAF. Two subsidiary com-panies—Land-Air Inc and Air Carrier Service Corp—are engaged respectively on the manu-facture of electronic equipment and on the marketing abroad of American aeronauticalproducts. Fleet: three L.1049H leased to TWA, oneDC-4. California Hawaiian is the operating nameadopted by Airline Transport Carriers Inc, a US non-scheduled carrier.Fleet: three DC-4, two C-46, two DC-3. Canadian Pacific Air Lines—CPAL wasfounded in 1942 by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way to acquire ten of the "bush" airlines, bestknown of which was Canadian Airways. CPAL operated a network of services in west andnorthwest Canada; a smaller network in the Winnipeg area; and a third system in Quebecand Labrador. These were part of the over- all CPR system including railways and ships.In 1949 the company opened two trans-Pacific routes, the first via Honolulu, Canton andFiji to Sydney, and the second via Anchorage, Shemya and Tokyo to Hong Kong. In 1955 atrans-Polar route was opened between Van- couver and Amsterdam. The eastern Canadaservices have now been taken over by TCA. In 1957 a transatlantic route was opened toMadrid and Lisbon and a Mexico City - Toronto - Montreal - Lisbon - Rome servicewas started on March 1, 1960. The airline's main trunk routes now extend from Sydneyand Auckland to Amsterdam via Fiji, Honolulu and Vancouver and from Buenos Aires toHong Kong via Santiago, Lima, Mexico City, Vancouver and Tokyo. There are also servicesbetween Madrid and Mexico via Toronto and Montreal. The Canadian government hasgranted CPAL permission to operate a daily service between Vancouver, Winnipeg, Torontoand Montreal—and this was inaugurated with Britannias on May 4 last.Head Office: Vancouver, BC, Canada. Executives: G. W. G. McConachie, president;R. W. Ryan, executive vice-president; H. B. Renwick, vice-president traffic; R. B. Phillips,vice-president administration; H. D. Cameron, general manager operations.Employees: 2,800. Fleet: eight Britannia 314 and 324, seven DC-6B, one DC-6A/B, five Convair 240, two C-46, four DC-3, one Otter, one Canso Visionaire.On order : Four DC-8 (1961). Capital Airlines Inc can trace its history backto April 1927 when Skyline Transportation Company began flying mail between Pitts-burgh and Cleveland. The following year Skyline was taken over by Pennsylvania Air-lines and passenger services were begun. In 1936 Pennsylvania Airlines and Central Air-lines (then flying Detroit - Washington mail services) merged to form Pennsylvania-CentralAirlines. The present name was adopted in 1948. Capital pioneered coach-class servicesand was the first US airline to introduce turbine-powered aircraft. The network coversthe eastern, north eastern and southern states from Minneapolis/St Paul in the_ west to NewYork, and as far south as Miami. Head Office: Washington DC, USA.Executives: Gen D. H. Baker, president; R. G. Lochiel, vice-president/treasurer; J. B. Frank-lin, vice-president operation. Fleet: 56 Viscount, 10 Lockheed L.049, 12DC-4, 20 DC-3, seven DC-6B (leased from PanArn). On order: seven Convair 880M, fiveElectra (1960). Capitol Airways Inc is one of the leading US large irregular carriers.Head Office: Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Executive: J. F. Stallings, president.Fleet: 20 C-46, three L.749, one L.1049G. Caribbean-Atlantic Airlines Inc—Caribair wasfounded in 1939, and in June that year took over the operations of its predecessor, Powel-son Air Service, which had started scheduled services late in 1938. The company now oper-ates services within Puerto Rico and to the Dominican Republic and the Virgin IslandsHead Office: Box 6035, Santurca, Puerto Rico. Executives: D. Trigo, president; J. Sierra, vice-president operations; R. B. Forrest, vice-presi- dent traffic; B. Trigo, vice-president.Fleet: four DC-3. Carsair Air Service Ltd was founded in 1955to operate non-scheduled service in New Guinea. Operations are reported to have beensuspended since late in 1958. No recent news of this carrier is available.Head Office: Jacksons Airstrip, Port Moresby, New Guinea.Executive: R. Carswall, chairman. Fleet: two Anson, one Avro 19, one L.12A, oneBeechcraft, one Norseman. Darwin. Electras and the DC-6B link HongKong with Tokyo and Osaka via Manila, Taipei and Seoul, and fly southwest to Singapore,Rangoon and Calcutta via Saigon, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur. The DC-6 operates to Bruneiand Kuching, and also to Vientiane and Pnom- Penh. Head Office: 1 Connaught Road, Hong Kong.Executives: W. C. G. Knowles, chairman; W. B. Rae-Smith, managing director; D. R. Y.Bluck, commercial manager; Capt K. W. Steele, operations manager; J. T. Gething, engineer-ing director. Employees: 279. Fleet: two Electra, one DC-6B, one DC-6,one DC-4, one DC-3. Cayman Brae Airways Ltd operates over a98-mile route between Grand Cayman Island, south of Cuba, and Cayman Brae.Head Office: Grand Cayman, British West Indies. Fleet: one Aero Commander 520. Ethiopian's DC-6Bs link Addis Ababa and Frankfurt Caspair Ltd has for several years been operat-ing scheduled services round Lake Victoria in association with East African Airways. Servicesare now operated from Entebbe to Bukoba, Geita and Mwanza. Head Office: Box 2238, Nairobi, Kenya.Executives: L. K. Campling, F. K. Campling, H. Vanderwal, directors; C. H. Bramich, secre-tary. Employees: 26. Fleet: three DH.89, one Cessna 182, one Bonanza, one Piper Cub. Catalina Channel Airways. Little is known ofthis US carrier except that it owns a Grumman Goose. Catalina Pacific Airlines operates from LosAngeles International Airport to Catalina Island through its Catalina Airlines Divisionand from Los Angeles to Palm Springs through its Palm Springs Airlines Division.Head Office: Beverly Hills, Cal, USA. Fleet: one Dove, two DC-3. Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd—CPA wasfounded in 1946, and started operations be- tween Manila and Hong Kong using DC-3s.It was re-registered as a Hong Kong company on October 18, 1948, when it was bought byJohn Swire & Sons Ltd and the China Naviga- tion Co Ltd (two-thirds) and AustralianNational Airways. The original owners re- tained a 20 per cent interest in Cathay Pacific,which was bought out in 1950 by the other interests. In 1954 a further issue of shareswas taken up by John Swire, the China Navi- gation Co and the P. & O. Steam NavigationCo Ltd. In 1956 the Borneo Co Ltd also be- came shareholders and on July 1, 1959, CathavPacific merged with Hong Kong Airways Ltd and at this time BOAC and Jardine, Mathe-son & Co Ltd became shareholders. Cathay Holdings Ltd holds 84.5 per cent of the totalshares of CPA, and shares in Cathay Holdings are held by Butterfield & Swire, the ChinaNavigation Co, Australia National Airways, P. & O. and the Borneo Co. Of the remainingshares in CPA, BOAC Associated Companies Ltd holds 15 per cent and Jardine, Matheson0.5 per cent. CPA operates a once weekly Electra servicefrom Hong Kong to Sydney via Manila and Central African Airways Corporation—CAAwas formed in 1946 by the Governments of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasa-land. CAA succeeded the wartime Southern Rhodesia Air Services and the pre-warRhodesia and Nyasaland Airways Ltd which commenced operations in 1933. CAA operatesboth domestic and regional services, the latter calling at ElisabethviUe, Mbeya, Durban,Johannesburg, Lourenco Marques and Beira. There is also the "Zambezi" ViscountColonial coach service to London, and the "Rhodesian Comet" service to London oper-ated for CAA by BOAC. Head Office: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.Executives: M. Stuart-Shaw, general manager; R. P. Hartley, assistant general manager; G. C.Draper, traffic and sales manager; K. H. Greager, engineering manager; Capt M.O*Donovan, operations manager; W. B. James, chief accountant; W. L. Stedman, planningmanager. Employees: 1,155.Fleet: four Viscount 748, six DC-3, five Beaver. Central Air Transport Inc is a non-scheduledcarrier in California. Head Office: 10523 Burbank Blvd, Hollywood, California. Executives: Fred R. Atkins, president; A, J.Baughman, secretary treasurer; Donald E. Shade, vice-president; George B. Culley, asst.treasurer. Fleet: one DC-4. Central Airlines Inc was established as anintra-state operator in Oklahoma in 1944. The company's first inter-state operations wereauthorized in 1946 and operations, with Beech Bonanzas, were inaugurated in September1949. DC-3 operations began in 1950 and all Bonanzas were withdrawn during the follow-ing year. At present the airline has a route mileage of 3,661 serving 36 cities in Texas,Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. Head Office: Fort Worth, Texas, USA.Executives: K. H. Kahle, president; F. E. Howe, executive vice-president/treasurer; A. S.Aldridge, vice-president traffic and sales; R. L. Wageneck, vice-president operations; C. E.Lundstrom, secretary/assistant treasurer. Fleet: Twelve DC-3 owned, three DC-3 leasedfrom US Navy.
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