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490 FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . Steele, operations manager; J. T. Gething,engineering 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. 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 Elisabethville, Mbeya, Durban,Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam, Johannesburg, Lour- enco Marques and Beira. There is also the"Rhodesian Comet" service to London operated for CAA by BOAC.Head Office: Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Executives: R. M. Taylor, chairman; M.Stuart-Shaw, general manager; R. P. Hartley, assistant general manager; G. C. Draper,commercial manager; K. H. Greager, engin- eering manager; Capt M. O'Donovan, opera-tions manager; W. B. James, chief accountant; W. L. Stedman, planning manager.Employees: 1,192. Fleet: four Viscount 748, one Viscount 754,six DC-3, six Beaver. 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 DC-3 operations began in 1950 and all Bonanzas were withdrawn during the follow-ing year.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. Three ex-American Airlines Con-vair 204s have recently been added to the fleet. 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, three Convair 240. Central Air Transport Inc is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier. 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, assttreasurer. Fleet: two DC-4. Central Airways Co operate charter servicesand offer training facilities in Ontario. Head Office: Toronto, Canada.Executives: R. S. Wong, general manager; T. S. Wong, president; G. Morwood, chiefpilot. Employees: 25.Fleet: 24 various. Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie—CSA is the Czecho-slovak state airline which was founded in 1946 as successor to the CSA established in 1923and which, until the war, operated in competi- tion with CLS. The airline now operatesTu-104A services between Prague and Cairo, Prague and Bombay via Cairo and BahrainIsland, Prague-Moscow, Prague-London and Prague-Paris. Last summer the Bombay service was extended to Djakarta via Rangoon,and a new 11-18 service was inaugurated between Prague and Bamako (Mali) viaZurich, Rabat and Conakry (Guinea). Il-18s also operate between Prague and Baghdad viaAthens and Damascus, to Paris, to Zurich and between Prague and Bratislava. II-14s connectthe Czechoslovak capital to Amsterdam, Belgrade, Berlin, Brussels, Bucharest, Buda-pest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Milan, Rome, Sofia, Stockholm, Tirana, Vienna and Warsaw.Il-14s and II-12s operate a network of domestic services. Head Office: Namesti Republiky, Prague,Czechoslovakia. Executives: Josef Prochazka, director general;Al. Palichlcb, operations director; J. Jechum- tal, commercial director.Employees: 1,959. Fleet: four Tu-104A, five 11-18 Moskva, 2411-14, three 11-12, two DC-3, Aero 45, L-200 Morava. Chicago Airways Inc, not to be confused withthe helicopter airline, operates daily services in accordance with traffic demands betweenChicago, St Louis, Milwaukee and Peoria to and from a considerable number of local com-munities. Operations had to be discontinued in 1959, but were resumed in 1960.Head Office: 1791, W. Howard Street, Chic- ago.Employees: 15. Chicago Helicopter Airways Inc—CHA hasauthorization to operate helicopters to any point within a 60-mile radius of Chicago'sO'Hare International Airport. Operations com- menced in August 1949 as Helicopter Air Ser-vice Inc, mail services to 54 Chicago suburban post offices three times a day being operated.Under its new title the company began sche- duled passenger services on November 12,1956, between O'Hare and Midway Airports. In April 1957 the service was extended toMeigs Field in downtown Chicago and in 1958 Gary, Indiana, and Winnetka, Illinois, wereadded to the network. CHA now provides 185 passenger flights a day in 12-passenger S-58Chelicopters. Head Office: 5240 West 63rd Street, Chicago,Illinois, USA. Executives: John S. Gleason Jr, president/treasurer; C. W. Moore, executive vice-presi- dent; John C. Brogan, vice-president/secre-tary; Robert B. Kiel, assistant secretary/ treasurer; C. E. Liske, vice-president traffic andsales; Robert S. Angstadt, vice-president operations; D. S. Angstadt, superintendent ofmaintenance. Employees: 209. Fleet- seven S-58C, four Bell 47G. On order:three Sikorsky S-61L. Civil Air Transport—CAT was founded byMaj-Gen. Chennault, leader of the A. V. G. Flying Tigers, and Whiting Willauer onOctober 25, 1946, as CNRRA Air Transport for the carriage of famine relief supplies toChina. From 1947 commercial loads were allowed on return flights. After a series ofmoves forced by the Communist advance through China CAT moved to Formosa in1950. The airline, in addition to charter work in various parts of the world, operates round-the-island passenger and cargo services and international flights to Japan, South Korea,Manila, Hong Kong and Bangkok. CAT is closely associated with Air Asia Co Ltd.Convair 880 "Mandarin Jet" services are due to begin this year, and two ex-AmericanAirlines DC-6As have recently been added to the fleet. Head Office: Taipei, Taiwan (Formosa).Executives: Wang Wensen, chairman; H. L. Grundy, managing director; A. Hiatt, Ethiopian Airlines' DC-66s now ssrve Lagos from Addis Ababa treasurer; C. S. Carter, secretary; V. M. Green,vice-president, traffic and sales. Employees: 613. Fleet: one DC-6B, two DC-6A, two DC-4,18 Curtiss C-46, four DC-3, two PBY Catalina, two Helio Courier, one Apache, one Kawasaki-Bell 47G-2. On order: one Convair 880 Model 31. Civil Aviation Administration of China—CAAC (also known as Minhaiduy) is successor to Skoga, which was formed in 1952 as a jointSoviet-Chinese undertaking. In 1954 Soviet participation was withdrawn. Minhaiduy nowoperates a large domestic network and inter- national services to Ulan-Bator (Mongolia)and Irkutsk (as part of the Peking - Moscow route), Mandalay, Rangoon, Hanoi (Vietnam),and Pyong-Yang (North Korea). Head Office: Peking, China.Fleet: 11-18, 11-14, 11-12, Li-2. Coastal Air Lines was, until July 1960, knownas Coastal Cargo, and is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier awarded a five-year operating certificate in January 1959. Coastal at present specialises in freightcarrying, but expects to purchase equipment for passenger carrying this year.Employees: 1. Fleet: one C-46F. Coastal Cargo is a US non-scheduled andsupplemental carrier that is not at present operating, although awarded a five-yearoperating certificate in January 1959. Coastal specialised in freight carrying, using anex-Capital Airlines Constellation. Fleet: one L.049 Constellation. Commercial Air Services (Pty) Ltd—CAS wasfounded in 1946 as a charter operator. Regular services were begun in 1948. Atpresent CAS flies twice-daily Lodestar ser- vices every weekday between Johannesburgand Welkom. CAS is associated with British United Airways, but no longer has any tieswith CAS (Rhodesia). CAS is the sole dis- tributor for Cessna aircraft in SouthernAfrica. CAS (Natal) (Pty) Ltd, based at Durban, is a subsidiary doing charter workand sales of Cessnas. Head Office: PO Box 2245, Johannesburg,South Africa. Executives: J. M. S. Martin, L. Zimmerman,joint managing directors. Employees: 60. Fleet: two Lodestar, one Cessna 310D, twoCessna 210, two Cessna Skylane, two Cessna Skylark, two Cessna 172. Commercial Air Services (Rhodesia) (Pty) Ltdwas formed in 1946 as a subsidiary of Com- mercial Air Services (Pty) Ltd of SouthAfrica, but the latter's holding was acquired jointly in 1956 by Airwork Ltd and Anglo-Transvaal Industries. In addition to charter flying, internal services with Cessna 180swithin Southern Rhodesia used to be flown between Bulawayo, Shabani, Gwelo, FortVictoria and Salisbury, these services having been taken over from Central African Airways,but last summer CAS (Rhodesia) merged with Hunting-Clan Air Carriers to form UnitedAir Carriers, and ceased to exist as a separate company. Head Office: PO Box 632, Bulawayo, SouthernRhodesia. Employees: 12. Fleet: one Cessna 310, two Cessna 180, twoCessna 195. Compagnia Italiana Elicotteri SRL—CIEbegan operations in 1956 and is based on the Gestione heliport. A seasonal service fromRimini to Monte Titano (San Marino) was operated from July 1 to September 15, 1960,and this season the service will be extended to include Riccione. A total of 2,380 passengerswere flown over this route last year in 800 flights covering a total of 10,246 miles. Ir;addition, CIE also undertakes crop spraying pilot training, forest patrol, aerial photography, banner towing, rescue work and othe1 activities. Head Office: 42 Via Lima, Rome.Executives: G. Chiarato, M. Pennacchi. Employees: 25.Fleet: six Agusta-Be!l 47.
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