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510 FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 AIRLINES. OF THE WORLD Seaboard & Western Airlines Inc began non-scheduled operations in 1947 and on April 10, 1956, began scheduled North Atlantic freightservices from New York. Points served in Europe now include Shannon, Glasgow,London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Cologne, Hanover, Diisseldorf, Frankfurt,Nuremburg, Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, Geneva, Basle and Zurich. Head Office: New York, USA.Executives: R. A. Norden, president; A. V. Norden, executive vice-president; C. D. Brell,vice-president operations; W. P. Neth, vice- president traffic/secretary.Employees: 1,000. Fleet: two L.1049D, seven L.1049H (threeleased to Aerlinte Eireann), three DC-4, one C-46, one DC-3. On order: five CanadairCL-44D-4 (1961). Servicio Aereo de Honduras SA—SAHSAwas founded in 1944 by Honduras private interests and Pan American Airways. Opera-tions were begun in October 1945. The com- pany operates a network of routes to 33 pointswithin Honduras, and also flies to British Hon-, duras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua.In 1953 SAHSA purchased all the stock of TACA de Honduras and in 1957 a controllingshare in Aerovias Nadonales de Honduras was acquired.Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Executives: R. Z Romero, president/generalmanager; F. Lardizabal, treasurer; Ramiro Cabanas, secretary.Employees: 260. Fleet: two C-46, five DC-3, one Howard DGA. Servicios Aereos Del Paraguay SA was, in1957, in the process of forming regional ser- vices being planned from Asuncion. Thiscarrier's services were taken over by Trans- america SA, before operations commenced.Head Office: Asuncion, Paraguay. Executive: Dr A. Neuges, president.Fleet: On order: two C-46, three L.049. Servicios Aereos Mediterraneos SA operatesservices radiating from Cordoba, Argentina, to Villa Dolores, Santa Fe, La Rioja andCa tarn area. Head Office: Dean Funes 14, ler Piso.-Esc. 2,Cordoba, Argentina. Fleet: Beech D-18. Servifo de Transporter Aereos—STA com-menced scheduled operations in January 1955 and at present operates regular servicesbetween the islands of Sao Tome, Principe and Fernando Po off the west coast of Africa.Head Office: Sao Tome, Province of Sao Tome and Principe, Portuguese West Africa.Executives: V. C. Cortes, chief executive. Fleet: one Heron 2, three D.H.89, one TigerMoth, one Autocar. Servicos Aereos Cruzeiro do Sul SA—see Cruzeiro. Seven Seas Airlines is a US charter operatorformed in 1959 which has started operations from Schiphol with two ex-Twentieth CenturyAirlines DC-4s. Seven Seas specializes in im- migrants' flights to Australia and the transportof ship's crews to the Far East. It is hoped to enlarge the fleet to five aircraft, including oneor more DC-6s, when business has built up. Head Office: 60 East 42nd Street, New York,USA. Fleet: two DC-4. Sierra Leone Airways—SLA was formed earlyin 1958 and operates internal services in the colony and protectorate.Head Office: Freetown. Fleet: three Rapide. Sky Tours Inc claims to operate the shortest route network of any scheduled airline in theUSA. Daily flights are operated from Put-in- Bay, Ohio, over Lake Erie to a group ofislands a few miles away, and to Peele Island in Canadian waters—a route just 25 miles long.Head Office: Port Clinton, Ohio. Fleet: two Ford D-AT-E Trimotor, one Boeing247D. Skycraft is a recently-formed Irish charter company which took delivery of a BristolFreighter last year for passenger and cargo work, and plans to acquire a second aircraft ofthis type this year. Slick Airways Inc was founded in 1946 andbegan operation as a contract cargo carrier. Scheduled services were authorized in 1949.Financial difficulties led the company to sus- pend all scheduled services in the spring of 1958, since when Slick's main sources ofrevenue have been military charter flying and the leasing of aircraft. During the first ninemonths of last year, Slick operated three DC-6A/Bs carrying military passengers be-tween Travis Air Force Base, California, and the Far East and the company was awardedtwo one-year contracts effective October 1, 1959, by MATS for the movement of militaryfreight from Travis to Japan with L.1049Hs and for flying passengers and freight byDC-6A/B from Japan to Guam. Slick's nine DC-4s are operating a one-year MATS Logaircontract starting July 1 last for daily round- trip schedules serving 16 USAF bases in theUSA. The company plans to restart regularscheduled freight services with L.1049Hs this autumn, and has signed a letter of intent fortwo Canadair CL-44s, with an option on four more. Head Office: Burbank, California, USA.Executives: Earl F. Slick, chairman of the board; A. W. Johnson, executive vice-presi-dent, secretary and treasurer; Henry P. Huff Jr, vice-president operations and maintenance;James H. Malone, assistant treasurer and assistant secretary.Employees: 300. Fleet: three L.1049H owned, two L.1049Hleased, four DC-6A/B owned, one DC-6A/B leased, nine DC-4 leased. Sobelair—Societe Beige de Transports Aeriens is primarily engaged on charter flights betweenBelgium and the Congo but a domestic network within the Congo was established in 1957 andis operated by Cessna 310s. Sobelair is a sub- sidiary of Sabena.Executives: G. Claeys, managing director; A. Philippe, general manager; P. Bertin, commer-cial manager. Fleet: two DC-4, three Cessna 310. Sociedad Aerea del Tolima SA operatesdomestic services within Colombia. Fleet: five DC-3. Sociedad Aeronautica Medellin SA (SAM)——see Rutas Areas de Colombia Ltda. Sociedad de Transportes Aereos Ltda— see CINTA. Soeiedade Acoriana de Transportes Aereos,Ltda—SATA. This company began opera- tions in 1948 and now has 313 miles of routes.Eleven services a week are operated between Sao Miguel and Santa Maria and three flightsa week serve Terceira. Head Office: Sao Miguel, Azores.Executives: A. M. Noqueira, operations man- ager; V. A. Portugal, traffic manager.Fleet: two Dove. Societe Aerienne de Transport GuyaneAntilles—SATGA (French Guiana Air Trans- port) flies local services in French Guiana.Cayenne, St Laurent, St Georges, Maripasoula, Saul, Sophie, St Leon, Boulanger and Reginaare served by scheduled flights. Stops are made at Delice on request for cargo or ambulancecalls. Head Office: Cayenne, French Guiana.Fleet: Cessna UC-78, D.H.89 Rapide, Vultee L-13. Societe Commerciale du Littoral—SCAL, asubsidiary of Bensande et Cie, operates a Bristol 170 on charter flights on behalf of One of SAA's Viscount 813s over Cape Town various French racing stables. No recent newsof this carrier is available. Sourdough Air Transport is a US non-scheduled carrier. Fleet: two DC-3. South African Airways—SAA was formed in1934 when it took over Union Airways. The airline is now owned and controlled by theGovernment through the South African Rail- ways and Harbours Administration. In 1935SAA acquired South West African Airways SAA now operates a network of domestic andregional routes in the Union and South West Africa, the 'Federation of Rhodesia, Nyasa-land and Mozambique. Five services a week are operated from Johannesburg to Europevia Salisbury, Nairobi, Leopoldville, Kano, Khartoum, Athens, Rome, Zurich, Frankfurt,Amsterdam and London. There is also a once- fortnightly Johannesburg - Perth service viaMauritius and the Cocos Islands. Head Office: Railway Headquarters, Johannes-burg, Union of South Africa. Executives: D. H. C. du Plessis, generalmanager; J. P. Hugo, deputy general manager; J. G. Grove, chief executive; D. M. Beaton,superintendent (airways). Employees: 2,730. Fleet: four DC-7B, four L.749A, seven Vis-count 813, five DC-4, six DC-3. On order: three Boeing 707-344 (July-Sept 1960). South Pacific Airlines Inc was founded tooperate air services in the Pacific from Hawaii No evidence of this carrier's operations hascome to light. South Pacific Airlines Ltd was founded tooperate scheduled services within New Zealand. No evidence of this carrier's operations hascome to light. Southeast Airlines is the operating nameadopted by Southeastern Aviation Inc fijfc their scheduled services within Tennessee. , jHead Office: Tri-Cities Airport, KjBgsport, Tennessee, USA. Executives: E. W. King, president; J. B.Roberts, vice-president operations; <E. G. Hunter, treasurer; S. T. King, director qf sales;O. B. Revel, director of maintenance. :„<-. Fleet: two Convair 240, four DC-3. S Southern Air Transport Inc concentntes onthe operation of non-scheduled freightjervices in Florida. One DC-3 and one C-46 are used. Southern Airways Inc was founded in July1943 and began operations in June 1949. Over thirty cities are served in the states of Georgia,Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and North and South Carolina. Per-manent certification was granted in May 1955. Southern has been investigating the possibilitiesof operating a Spacetronics air-cushion vehicle on a cargo service to the Bahamas.Head Office: Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Executives: F. W. Hulse, president; W. S.Magill, vice-president operations; G. Estey, secretary/treasurer; A. Yawn, sales promotionmanager. Fleet: 13 DC-3. V;.,'r> •::.•" :.:7'::v"-> Southern Cross Airways. Little is known of this US non-scheduled carrier. A Curtiss C-46 operating under this tide crashed at Belem. Brazil, on February 18, 1959. Spartan Air Services Ltd are actively engagedon a world-wide basis in all types of aerial photography, geophysical surveys, photogram-metric mapping and resources engineering studies. The Bristol Aeroplane Co of CanadaLtd have now associated themselves with Spartan, thus providing financial and technicalsupport; in addition to Canada, Spartan air- craft are at present working in Colombia, Tan-ganyika, Kenya, Somaliland and Mozambique.
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