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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 503 :he Leeward, Windward and Virgin Islands, nd to Trinidad. Head Office: Plymouth, Montserrat, BWI. Executives: Sir E. Dos Santos, director; U. keade, secretary. Fleet: one Heron (leased from Bahamas Air- ways), one Apache, one Twin Bonanza. 'LM Courriers Normands, in association with >nother French bus operator, Compagnie Nor- rnande d'Autobus, both subsidiaries of the publicly owned Sode'tiS Generate des Trans- ports Departementaux, operated an experi- mental helicopter service between Caen and Le Havre from July 25 to August 31, 1958. A 15-passenger Vertol 44 chartered from Helicop-Air operated three round trips daily. Financially the operation failed to break even, despite high utilizations and load-factors, and the service was not resumed. Liberian National Airways is a Government- owned airline which began operations in 1952. Internal services are operated from Roberts- field and Monrovia to six other points. Head Office: Robertsfield, Liberia. .. ... Executive: F. H. Syphert, president. "•>'.'- Fleet: two DC-3. Libiavia—Nord Africa Aviazione SpA was founded in 1931 and from 1946 concentrated on airline agency work. In July 1958 the com- pany started its own air services, and now operates thrice-weekly over the Tripoli- Athens - Ankara route using DC-6A/B equip- ment chartered from UAT. All the company's capital is held by local interests. Head Office: Giaddat Istiklal 218 (PO Box No 245), Tripoli, Libya. Executives: Hag Mustapha Mezran, president; Mario L. Lotti, manager. Linea Aerea Borinquen is a Nicaraguan car- rier operating a converted Boeing B-17. Linea Aerea del Cobre Ltda—LADECO operates DC-3s on domestic services within Chile along the route Santiago - Potrerillas - Antofagasta - Calama. LADECO was formed in November 1958 to take over the domestic operations of another Chilean carrier, CINTA, which has since joined forces with ALA. Head Office: Amunategui 73, Santiago, Chile. Employees: 43. Fleet: two DC-3. Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile—LAN was founded in 1932 by the Chilean Government to take over Linea Aeropostal Santiago Arica. The original fleet consisted of three Ford Tri- motors. The company has developed services throughout the length of Chile and inter- national routes to Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, Panama and the US. Head Office: Los Cerrillos Airport, Santiago. Executives: M. Yanquez, president; H. Duffau, secretary general; H. M. Sauvageot, business manager; J. Jarpa, operations manager; R. Hirigoyen, traffic and sales manager. Employees: 1,617. Fleet: three DC-6B, four Martin 2-0-2, 17 DC-3, two Electra, one Beechcraft Bonanza. Linea Aeropostal Venezolana—LAV was founded in 1933 when the Venezuelan Govern- ment took over the routes and equipment of the Cie Gle. Aeropostale which had begun operating in Venezuela in 1930. LAV began flying with Latecoere 28 monoplanes and the first new type to be introduced was the L-10 Electra. LAV, which took over TACA de Venezuela on July 1, 1957, now has a 10,000-mile network. In addition to internal services, regional ser- vices are operated to the USA, Panama, Cura- cao, Havana, Bogota, Lima and throughout the Caribbean, and an intercontinental service is operated to Lisbon, Madrid and Rome via Bermuda. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela. :i /- Executive: Col L. Calderon, president. Fleet: six L.1049G, one L.749, five Viscount, two Martin 2-0-2, four C-45, 19 DC-3. Lineas Aereas Colombiana Expresa operates two Fairchild C-82s on internal services within Colombia. Lineas Aereas Costarricenses SA—LACSA was founded in 1945 by Pan American Air- ways, the Government of Costa Rica and Costa Rican private interests. PAA originally held 36 per cent of the stock but is believed now to hold a smaller percentage. Scheduled opera- tions began in 1946. In 1952 LACSA took over TACA de Costa Rica, which had operated since 1939 as one of the units of the TACA Misrair's Viscounts work into Europe as far as Frankfurt system. LACSA operates a network of inter- nal services based on San Jose and also routes to Panama, El Salvador, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Cuba and Miami. Head Office: Apartado 1531, San Jose, Costa Rica. Executives: Antonio Peiia, president; Fernando Cruz, general manager; Otto Escalante, opera- tions manager. Fleet: two DC-3, four C-46, two Convair 340. Lineas Aereas de California SA—LAC was formed in 1958 and operates a regular service between Ensenada and Mexico City via Durango and Tepic. Head Office: Mexico City, Mexico. Executives: J. Tighman, president; C. Cer- vantes, general manager. Fleet: two C-46. •"• \ .. ' •>' Lineas Aereas de Cuyo SA have been licensed to operate scheduled services from Mendoza to points within Argentina and to Santiago de Chile. At present, services radiating from Mendoza link several points in northern Argentina, including Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and San Carlos de Bariloche. Head Office: 9 de Julio 1050, Mendoza, Argen- tina. Fleet: Lodestars. Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA—LANICA was founded in June 1945 with Pan American Airways holding 40 per cent of the company's capital (now 20 per cent). Internal services were begun in 1946 with a fleet consisting of two Boeing 247 aircraft. At present the company serves five points in Nicaragua in addition to its home city, Managua, and operates inter- national services using Viscounts to Florida and a C-46 freight service to Miami. Head Office: Managua, Nicaragua. Executives: Col L. A. Somoza, president; A. Sacasa, vice-president; F. P. Powers, vice- president; F. Gaitan, treasurer; C. A. Telloria, secretary. Fleet: one Viscount, seven DC-3, two C-46, one Ryan Navion, one Beech. Lineas Aereas del Estado—LADE, was founded in September 1940 as a branch of the Argentine Air Force to operate services to isolated areas, and which could not be worked as commercial undertakings. After the war these services were taken over by commercial airlines but LADE is again flying certain domestic services. Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Executives: Brig-Gen H. Rivara, director; J. F. Badin, general manager; D. Petronio, traffic manager. Fleet: Viking, DC-3, DC-4. Lineas Aereas Espanolas—see Compania Mercantil Anonime Iberia. Lineas Aereas Interpolar. Little is known about this Chilean carrier. A C-46 operating under this title crashed in Peru on May 21, 1959. Lineas Aereas Unidas SA—LAUSA was founded in 1951 and operates within Mexico. Head Office: Mexico City, Mexico. Fleer: three DC-3, two C-46. Lineas Expresa Bolivar Compania Anonima— LEBCA operates freight services between Caracas and Miami. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela. Executives: H. Perez, chairman. Fleet: two C-46, one DC-3, one Cessna 180, one Navion. Lineas Interamericanos Aereas Ltda has operated internal services within Colombia since 1950. Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Executive: G. D. Granados, president. Fleet: three C-46. Linee Aeree Sarde—LAS is a newly-formed Sardinian helicopter airline that recently signed a letter of intent for three Westland Westminsters. LAS intends to operate 40/45- seat helicopters over routes between Sardinia, Corsica, the French Riviera, the Italian main- land and Tunis. Linjeflyg AB was founded in 1957 to operate domestic passenger services in Sweden and to take over newspaper delivery services from another carrier, Airtaco. Operations began in April 1957. Charter and ambulance work is also undertaken. Linjeflyg is jointly owned by SAS (50 per cent), the two leading Swedish newspapers Dagens Nyheter AB (33^ per cent), Stockholms Tidningen AB (8J per cent) and the Swedish newspaper distribution organisa- tion AB Svenska Pressbyran (8^ per cent). The Lodestars and three DC-3s will be withdrawn this summer when the Convair 340/440s are delivered. Head Office: Bromma Airport, Stockholm, Sweden. Executives: O. Karleby, chairman; S. Ostling, president; Bo Nilsson, assistant to president; A. Weimer, technical and operations manager; C. O. Munkberg, commercial manager; T. Andersson, flight superintendent; S. Sandberg; traffic and sales manager. Employees: 340. Fleet: ten DC-3, two Lodestar. On order: five Convair 340/440. Lloyd Aereo Colombiano—LAC is a small company operating internally within Colombia and to Miami. In 1956 an order was placed for three Viscounts, but delivery was never taken. Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Fleet: one DC-3, three C-46. Lloyd Aero Boliviano SA—LAB was founded by German immigrants on September 14, 1925, and opened in that year a route between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. Junkers F13s were used on these first services. The company was taken over as the Bolivian national airline in 1941 and Panagra was given a contract to administer the airline. The government of Bolivia still holds most of the stock of LAB, but a 20 per cent minority is owned by Panagra. The airline operates a network of domestic services and also routes to Arica in Chile, Salta, Argentina and Corumba, Brazil. Head Office: Cochabamba, Bolivia. Executives: Edmundo Gonzalez, president; Rudolfo Galindo, general manager. Fleet: seven DC-3, one DC-4, six Boeing B-17. Loftleidir HF, formed on March 10, 1944, has operated services within Iceland and be- tween Iceland and other European destinations, but since March 1952 has confined its activities to the operation of North Atlantic services. These now link New York and Reykjavik to Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Oslo and Helsinki. The company trades under the name Icelandic Airlines—Loftleidir. Fares are below IATA economy-class rates, although the sectors east of Iceland have IATA- agreed fares. Head Office: Reykjavik, Iceland. Executives: K. Gudlaugsson, chairman; A. Eliasson, general manager. Employees: 222. Fleet: two DC-6B, two DC-4. Long Island Airways Inc is a recently-formed carrier operating service between New York (La Guardia) and Montauk Point on Long Island. Head Office: MacArthur Airport, Ronkonkoma, New York, USA. Loide Aereo Nacional SA was founded on August 24, 1949, by amalgamation with Lineas Aereas Paulistas and Transportes Aereos Bandeirantes. Loide operates nearly 10,000 miles of routes in Brazil from Porto Alegre in the south to Macapa in the north and along the Amazon as far as Manaos. Many second- class services are flown.Head Office: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Executives: Col M. G. Jacques, president;Newton Lagares da Silva, technical director; Jos6 Bugarin Maloper, administrative director;Anelio Goncalves Moles, commercial director. Employees: 1,025. Fleet: four DC-6C (leased to Panair do Brasil),seven DC-4, 12 Curtiss C-46.
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