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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 507 •ninutes. The present title was adopted early-id 1958. Head Office: International Airport, SanFrancisco, Cal, USA. Executives: L. Hayward, chairman; J. H.Connelly, president; T. R. Mitchell, executive vice-president; E. Roger Dahl, treasurer; R. E.Costello, vice-president traffic; M. A. King, vice-president sales; C. A. Myhre, vice-presi-dent finance. Employees: 668. Fleet: six F-27, nine DC-3, four Martin 2-0-2,two Martin 4-0-4, one PBY Catalina. Pacific Northern Airlines—PNA was formedin 1932 as Woodley Airways. A post office mail contract was awarded in 1934 and in1938 the airline received CAB certification. The present company was incorporated in1945 and in 1951 PNA was granted a certificate by CAB to connect its Alaskan routes withSeattle - Tacoma and Portland. Services are now operated within Alaska and betweenAlaskan points and Seattle and Portland. Head Office: Seattle, Washington, USA.Executives: A. G. Woodley, president; J. A. Cunningham, vice-president operations;Harold A. Olsen, vice-president traffic and sales; J. H. Foster, vice-president engineeringand maintenance; Felix Aubuchon, vice-presi- dent Alaska operations; Thomas Stuart, vice-president personnel; C. W. Nelson, secretary- treasurer. •Employees: 624. Fleet: six L.749 Constellation, three DC-3. Pacific Southwest Airlines—PSA operates ser-vices linking San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco.Head Office: San Diego, Cal, USA. Executives: K. G. Friedkin, president; H. N.Wood, traffic and sales manager; J. F. Andrews, chief of operations. Fleet: four DC-4, three Electra. On order: oneElectra. Pacific Western Airlines Ltd—PWA wasfounded in 1946 as Central British Columbia Airways, and has become the third largest air-line in Canada by acquisition of Associated Air- ways at Edmonton, and Queen Charlotte Air-lines at Vancouver. The company operates an extensive network of scheduled and non-scheduled routes throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Terri-tories and Alaska. PWA has also been one of the prime contractors operating the extensiveairlift in connection with defence projects in Canada's extreme north. PWA operates severalscheduled services based on Vancouver and Prince Rupert. Head Office: Vancouver, BC, Canada.Executives: Karl J. Springer, chairman and president; D. F. Granger, secretary/treasurer.Employees: 650. Fleet: three DC-4, six Super 46C, five DC-3,five Anson 5, four Otter, 19 Beaver, three Cessna 180, one Cessna 182. Pakistan International Airlines Corporation—PIA was founded by the Government of Pakistan on April 1, 1955, when PIA took overOrient Airways. As a company PIA had been founded in 1951 to operate services to Europe;its first actual operations were between East and West Pakistan in June 1954. Service toLondon was begun early in 1?55. The Corpora- tion is responsible for the operation of all airservices within Pakistan. Regional services to Kabul, Kandahar, Bombay, Delhi, Calcuttaand Rangoon are also operated. A Boeing 707- 121 leased from PanAm will operate theLondon - Karachi service, at first once a week and later three times a week.Head Office: Karachi, Pakistan. • . •„ The first of two Friendships for Philippine Air Lines Named "Pacific Explorer," this Electra is the second for Qantas Executives: Air Cdre M. Nur Khan, managingdirector; M. M. Salim, chief administration officer; Capt A. Masood, flight operationsmanager; J. S. Mirza, commercial manager. Employees: 3,611. Fleet: three L.1049C, two L.1049H, 10 DC-3,four Viscount 815. On order three F 27A Friendship (1960). Pan American-Grace Airways Inc—Panagrawas founded in 1928 by the Grace Shipping Line and Pan American Airways, the initialname being Peruvian Airways. In 1928 Pan American Airways was awarded a mail con-tract for a service from Florida to Panama, and in the following year Panagra successfully bidfor a mail contract covering a route from Panama down the west coast of South Americaand across the Andes to Buenos Aires. By the end of 1929 the complete route was in opera-tion. The company's routes have been gradu- ally extended and after a long fight has suc-ceeded in securing entry to New York through interchange agreements with PanAm andNational Airlines. Operating over the routes of the three companies Panagra DC-7Bs wereintroduced on August 1, 1955, and, under the title of El Interamericano and El Pacifico,daily services are flown between New York and Buenos Aires via Miami, Panama, Lima andSantiago. Local services in Ecuador are also operated with DC-3s between Quito, Guaya-quil and Cuenca. Head Office: 135 East 42nd St, New York.Executives: A. B. Shea, president; D. Camp- bell, vice-president/general manager; L. H.Clifton, vice-president/comptroller; C. S. Collins, vice-president traffic and sales.Employees: 1,500. Fleet: one DC-3, two DC-4, five DC-6 (leasedto PanAm), four DC-6B owned, one DC-6B leased, five DC-7B (excludes one leased toanother airline). On order : four DC-8. Pan American World Airways Inc—PanAm is the only major US airline concerned entirelywith overseas operation. Pan American Airways Inc was founded in March 1927 and beganoperation of its first route, between Key West and Havana, in October 1927. Fokker mono-planes were used. PAA extended its opera- tion throughout the Caribbean and built upflying-boat services, which by 1931 had reached the Argentine. PAA was a great pioneer oftransocean flying and by 1935 had established services between San Francisco and Manila viaHonolulu, Midway, Wake and Guam. Hong Kong was served from 1936. In 1937 NewYork - Bermuda services were opened in co- operation with Imperial Airways and in thesame year the two companies began trans- atlantic survey flights. Passenger service beganin 1939. The airline now operates a route network covering about 69,000 miles, serves allcontinents and has regular round-the-world flights. Pan American took its present title in1949. The airline has absorbed a number of other airlines including American OverseasAirlines and it has interests in numerous car- riers, particularly in Latin America. PanAmis also operating the 1,000 mile long missile range, stretching from Florida to beyondPuerto Rico, for the USAF. Head Office: New York, USA.Executives: Juan T. Trippe, president; Roger Lewis, executive vice-president administration;Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice-president Latin American division; Harold E. Gray,executive vice-president overseas division; John C. Leslie, vice-president and assistant to presi-dent; Hubert A. Schneider, vice-president and general counsel.Employees: 25,000. Fleet- 22 Boeing Stratocruiser B-377, 25 DC-7C, 21 DC-4, 41 DC-6B, four DC-6A, three DC-3, six Boeing 707-121, 18 Boeing 707-321and -331, one DC-8, one B-23, one DC-7B. Panagra—see Pan American Grace Airways. Panair do Brastl SA—PAB. In October 1929the Brazilian Government authorized New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Inc (NYRBA) tooperate services in Brazil, and Nyrba do Brasil was created as a Brazilian subsidiary. A ser-vice was begun between Rio de Janeiro and Belem. In August 1930 Pan American Airwaystook over both NYRBA and Nyrba do Brasil and the latter became Panair do Brasil onSeptember 15 that year. PAB developed ser- vices with Sikorsky S-38 and ConsolidatedCommodore flying-boats. These were later replaced by Fairchild 91s and Sikorsky S-43sand, although Panair now operates an extensive Brazilian and South American route networkwith Constellations, Catalinas still operate the Amazon routes. Panair also operates servicesfrom South America to London, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Paris, Zurich, Rome, Madrid,Lisbon, Istanbul and Beirut. DC-6Cs leased from Loide Aereo replaced Constellations oninternational routes last year. Head Office: Santos Dumont Airport, Rio deJaneiro, Brazil. Executives: Manoel F. Guimaraes, president;Dr C. P. de Mello, director superintendent; Dr A. T. Filho, secretary.Employees: 4,610. Fleet: 12 L.049, four DC-7C, four DC-6C(leased from Panair do Brasil), five Convair PBY-5A. On order: four DC-8. Papuan Air Transport Ltd—PATAIR wasfounded in 1952 and operates services from Port Moresby. Head Office: Port Moresby, Papua.Fleet: one DC-3, one Piaggio P.166, one Anson. Paraense Transportes Aereas SA was foundedin 1957 and started a scheduled service between Belem, Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro,Pedro Alfonso, Cristalandia, Goiania and Sao Paulo are also served.Head Office: Belem, Brazil. Executives: A. Ramos, president; F. de Barros,director. Fleet: C-46. .._„. _. •• • • v • -.-..y ,„:„.; :, .».„?,:.•„-. Paraguayan Air Services. Little is known aboutthis company except that it operates a Douglas DC-4. Parsons Airways Ltd operate charter services,mostly in Ontario and Manitoba. Head Office: PO Box 120, Kenora, Ont.Executives: H. J. Parsons, president; W. K. Parsons, secretary-treasurer.Employees: 9. Fleet: two Norseman, one Cessna 180, one Cessna 170. Peninsular Air Transport is a US supple-mental air carrier that has operated scheduled services on an irregular basis from Miami. Norecent news of this carrier is available. Persian Air Services operates freight servicesfrom Teheran to Beirut, Athens, Basle and Brussels using DC-4s and a chartered DC-6A.Head Office: 486 Ferdowsi Av, Teheran, Iran. Fleet: DC-6A, DC-4. Philippine Air Lines Inc—PAL began in 1932as the Philippine Aerial Taxi Company. The company was reorganized and took its presentname in 1941. Following the war the com- pany developed its operations, and in 1947 and1948 PAL took over two other Philippine concerns—Far Eastern Air Transport andCommercial Air Lines. Long distance overseas services were inaugurated to Europe and acrossthe Pacific to the USA, but in 1954 PAL sus- pended its long distance services and nowoperates only within the Philippine Republic and to Hong Kong although services to theUSA will be resumed with DC-8s.
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