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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 509 Executives: W. A. Lee, general manager; R. J.Weston, charter operations manager; J. Lind- say, agricultural operations manager.Fleet: one Dove, one Anson, one Beaver, one Cessna 180, one Auster J/5G Autocar, threeTiger Moth. Royal Air Cambodge opened operations onNovember 1, 1956, and is flying services from Phnom-Penh to Siem-Reap, Saigon, HongKong and Bangkok. Head Office: PO Box 539, Phnom-Penh,Cambodia. Executives: Huot Sam Ath, chairman; JeanFlorent, general manager. Employees: 52. Fleet: DC-3 and Air France L.1049G SuperConstellation. Royal Air Maroc—Compagnie Nationale deTransports Aeriens operates services within North Africa and from North Africa to France,Spain, Germany and Switzerland. Tangier - Gibraltar and Casablanca - Dakar services arealso operated. The airline was formed in July 1953 by the amalgamation of the Casablanca-based Compagnie Cherifienne de 1'Air (Air Atlas) and Compagnie Cherifienne de Trans-ports Aeriens Air Maroc; the title Royal Air Maroc was taken in February 1957, Air Atlaswas formed in 1946 and began operations with Junkers Ju52/3ms, while Air Maroc wasfounded in 1947 and began scheduled services in 1949. Head Office: Casablanca, Morocco.Executives: M. Laraki, president; A. Faurous, director general; P. Valent, administrativedirector; A. Bengeloun, commercial director; M. Delluc, technical director.Fleet: one Caravelle, four L.749 Constellation, four DC-4, three DC-3. On order: one Cara-velle. Royal Nepal Airline Corp Ltd operates inter-nal services from Katmandu using DC-3s. Head Office: Katmandu, Nepal. Rutas Aereas de Colombia Ltda—RASrecently took over the air services operated by Sociedad Aeronautica Medellin SA whichbegan scheduled operations in January 1955. A low-fare service linking Miami and Rio deJaneiro is operated in conjunction with Aerovias Panama Airways, and regional ser-vices are operated in Central America. Head Office: Bogota, Colombia.Fleet: three DC-3, three DC-4. Rutas Aereas Nacionales SA—RANSA wasfounded as a private company in 1948. The company has CAB authorization to carrypassengers, mail and cargo between Venezuela and Miami via Netherlands, West Indies andJamaica, but at present only cargo services are operated.Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela. Executives: C. Chavez, president; E. Pardey,general manager; E. E. Jones, vice-president; R. D. Borges, operations manager. Fleet: 13 C-46, one E50 Twin Bonanza, threeBeaver, six Cessna 180. Rutas Aereas SAM Ltda Aereas de Colombia. -RAS, see Rutas SAA—see South African Airways. '.>";. SAFE—see Braathens South American andFar East Airtransport A/S or Straits Air Freight Express. ....... SAHSA—see Servicio Aereo de Honduras. SAS—see Scandinavian Airlines System. SATA—see Sociedade Acoriana de Trans-portes Aereos Ltda. SAVAG—SA Viacao Aerea Gaucha. Foundedin 1946 as a private company to operate services in the State of Rio Grande, the original fleetconsisted of three Lodestars. Present routes are from Porto Alegre to Livramento viaBage; Porto Alegre to Curitiba; Porto Alegre to Pelotas and Rio Grande, and Porto Alegre toUruguaiana. Cruzeiro do Sul supplies SAVAG with crews, provides maintenance and techni-cal assistance and also handles reservations. Head Office: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Executives: E. C. Becker, president; V. V. de Fonesca, vice-president; T. Fruet, operationsmanager. Fleet: six DC-3. - :;;;.../'/-.. / :::.,-. -V ; •-;•?• Sabena Belgian World Airlines—SocieteAnonyme Beige d'Exploitation de la Naviga- tion Aerienne was founded in 1923 as asuccessor to SNETA. Sabena developed a European network and later routes to and inthe Belgian Congo. The airline now has an extensive route network in Europe, to theMiddle East as far as Teheran, to Africa as far as Johannesburg, within the Belgian Congo andfrom Brussels to Montreal and New York. Sabena is the only operator of internationalhelicopter services. Following helicopter mail operations in Belgium, which started on August21, 1950, the company began passenger services to Holland on September 1, 1953, and its S-58snow cover an extensive network radiating from Brussels. Last September the 250,000th pas-senger was carried on a Sabena helicopter. Sabsna commenced Boeing 707 servicesbetween Brussels and Leopoldville on January 19, and to New York and Johannes-burg on January 23 and 25. Three Caravelles may be leased from Air France during thewinter of 1960-61 for European and Middle East routes. DC-7Cs have been chartered toEl Al for the latter's Tel Aviv - Johannesburg route. Sabena is a member of the Air Unionconsortium. Head Office: Brussels, Belgium.Executives: G. Perier, chairman; G. Claeys, managing director; W. Deswarte, president;G. Dieu, deputy president; A. Vernieuwe, srnior vice-president operations; Roger Nys,secretary-general; F. Pirson, senior vice- prssidsnt technical.Employees: 8,714. Fleet: three Boeing 707-329, nine DC-7C,eight DC-6B, two DC-6A, two DC-6, nine Convair 440, seven DC-4, 28 DC-3, eightS-58, one Alouette II, one Bell 47H-1, five Cessna 310. On order: two Boeing 707-329,four Caravelle VI (1961). Sadia SA Transposes Aereos was formed in1956, operates second-class services from Sao Paulo to Coacordia, Porto Alegre and Brasilia,and from Londrina to Florianopolis, Ribeirao Preto and Rio de Janeiro. A first-class servicewith REAL Convair 340/440s is operated on the route Sao Paulo - Uberlandia - Goiania -Brasilia. There is also a C-46 freight service between Sao Paulo and Concordia.Head Office: 470 Rua Sao Bento, Sao Paulo, Brazil.Fleet: C-46, two DC-3. -• v^c.J'i-W"' St Vincent Government Air Service operated Seaboard's swing-tail CL-44D-4s will be able to load up to 65,0001b of cargo in 19min services between St Vincent and Barbados,Dominica, Grenada and Trinidad with a Goose amphibian under charter from British GuianaAirways. Operations ceased on November 30, 1959 and St Vincent is now served only byLeeward Islands Air Transport. Salta CA operates internal charter serviceswithin Venezuela. Fleet: one Beech, two Cessna 310B, twoCessna 190, two Cessna 180, one Cessna 175, one Helio H-391 Courier. Sarnia Airlines recently opened a network oflocal services in Ontario between Windsor, Sarnia, London (Ontario) and Toronto.Head Office: 1972 London Road, Sarnia, Ontario.Executives: E. S. Colbert, president; W. M. Mason, vice-president and general manager; J.Campbell, secretary. Fleet: Dove. Saskatchewan Government Airways—SGAwas founded in 1947 by the provincial Govern- ment to take over the M. & C. Aviation Coand to operate services to North Saskatchewan. SGA also leases aircraft to the Air AmbulanceService and the Forest Fire Control Branch of the Department of Natural Resources.Head Office: Prince Albert, Sask, Canada. Executives: W. A. Houseman, chairman; HonA. G. Kusiak, minister; I. Macleod, general manager; F. R. Baudais, operations manager;I. A. Pool, chief engineer. Employees: 75. Fleet: one DC-3, one Norseman, one Otter,five Beaver, eight Cessna 180, one Cessna 170, one Piper Super Cub. Saudi Arabian Airlines was founded in 1946by the Government and is managed by TWA. The airline began operations in 1947 and nowhas about 6,000 miles of routes within Saudi Arabia and to Egypt, the Lebanon, Jordan,Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Yemen, Eritrea, Aden, Sudan and Syria. Considerable pilgrimtraffic is carried. Head Office: Box 167, Jedda, Saudi Arabia.Executives: R. W. Wilson, technical manager; S. M. Bigler, supt. flight operations.Fleet: 10 Convair 340, four DC-4, 10 DC-3, five Bristol 170. Scandinavian Airlines System—SAS is a con-sortium of Swedish Air Lines (ABA), Danish Air Lines (DDL) and Norwegian Air Lines(DNL) in the proportions 3, 2 and 2. SAS originally came into being in 1946, for theoperation of transatlantic services, and both North and South Atlantic routes were openedin that year. All routes of the three airlines are now operated by SAS with the originalairlines acting as holding companies. SAS maintains Scandinavian internal ser-vices, a European network and routes to South Africa, the Middle and Far East, and to Northand South America. In 1954 a polar route between Scandinavia and the west coast of theUSA was opened, and a transpolar route to the far East was opened in 1957. Caravelle services commenced on May 15,1959, and are now operated to the Middle East, Africa and to London. SAS has a minorityshareholding in Thai Airways International, to which it has supplied technical and admini-strative assistance and equipment. Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden.Executives: A. Rusck, president; Thore Boye, V. J. Rasmussen, N. Langhelle, executive vice-presidents. Employees: 12,480. Fleet: 14 DC-7C, 13 DC-6B (3 to be leased toThai), 20 Convair 440. On order : seven DC-8 (current), 18 Caravelle (current: 4 to be leasedto Swissair), two Convair 600 Coronado, plus two more Convair 600 to be leased fromSwissair. Scheduled Skyways System operates servicesbetween Fayetteville and Little Rock. Head Office: Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA.Fleet: Cessna 180. Schweizerische Helicopter AG—Heliswiss. This company operates local charter helicopterservices. In 1957 Heliswiss took over Air Import. Head Office: Waaghausgasse 3, Bern, Switzer-land. Executives: W. Horning, chairman; H. Aesch-bacher, director. Fleet: five Bell 47.No scheduled services.
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