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HI Ml l*ri:R**Tti>K*l *!«> 1*1 •> 494 FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 Irish International Airlines' transatlantic Boeing 720 services began on December 14 WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . Wossen Mangasha, vice-president; Victor H.Harrell Jr, general manager; M. F. Garrison, secretary/treasurer; H. F. Noon, generaloperations manager; D. P. Reid, general sales manager.Employees: 812. Fleet: three Douglas DC-6B. three Convair240, seven DC-3, three Bell 47J. one Bell 47G2, one Hitler UH-12E. On order: twoBoeing 720-060B. Euravia is a recently formed charter operatorbased on Beek, south Holland, which will operate two DC-4s and Convairs. No recentnews of this carrier is available. Expreso Aereo Interamericano SA was formedin 1942 and commenced operations in June 1943. Expreso operates limited internalservices in Cuba and a freight service to the US. Head Office: Havana. Cuba.Executive: G. Diaz, president. Fleet: three C-46. Fairways Corporation is a US non-scheduledcarrier. Fleet: one Convair 440, DC-3. Falcks Flyvetjeneste is a subsidiary of a Danishsalvage company and began air operations in 1947. In addition to charter and ambulanceservices a regular service is flown between Copenhagen and Odense.Head Office: Copenhagen, Denmark. Fleet: two Heron, two Dove, one AeroCommander, one Rapide, one M.K.E.K.5A, one KZ-VII Larken, one Auster 5D. Falkland Islands Government Air Serviceprovides air transport for the Falkland Islands with a fleet of four Beaver and twoAuster 5 floatplanes. Head Office: Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Far Eastern Airlines—see All Nippon Airlines. Faucett—see Compania de Aviacion-Faucett. A. Fecteau Transport Aerien Ltee. ThisCanadian bush operator's history goes back to 1936 when Arthur Fecteau commencedservices at Senneterre, Quebec, with a Travel Air biplane and later a Cirrus Moth. Today.A. Fecteau Transport Aerien Ltee, which was incorporated in 1951, does a lot of flying insupport of mineral exploration activities and fur trading in Quebec province.Head Office: Senneterre, Quebec. Executives: A. Fecteau, president; S. Menard.secretary/treasurer. Fleet: three Otter, six Beaver, one Cessna 180. Fenwick Aviation SA operates charter flightsfrom Issy les Moulineaux and Toussus-le- Noble, beside acting as French agents for theAero Commander and Cessna range. Bell and Agusta-Bell helicopters, Lycoming and Con-tinental engines. Overhauls and repairs are also undertaken. Head Office: 15 Rue Fenelon, Paris.Executives: C. H. de Levis Mirepoix, president; Jean Moine, general manager.Fleet: four Bell 47, Aero Commander 680F, Cessna 310, 210, 172 and 170. Fiji Airways was founded in 1951 by HaroldGatty, who flew round the world in a Lock- heed Vega with Wiley Post in 1931—they took just under nine days. Regular services withinFiji were begun in September 1951 using D.H.89s. Services are now operated betweenNandi, the International Airport, Suva and Savusavu, Lambasa and Taveuni. A Fiji -Tonga service is also operated. Qantas acquired control of Fiji Airways in 1958, butTasman has now acquired a 50 per cent interest in the airline, and the Australian andNew Zealand Governments have agreed to participate equally in the ownership of FijiAirways. Head Office: Suva, Fiji. Executives: Capt R. O. Mant, generalmanager; Capt P. Frame, chief pilot. Fleet: three Drover, three Heron, one Beaveramphibian. Finnair—Aero O/V—was founded on Novem-ber 1, 1923 and began operations on March 20, 1924, with a Junkers F.13 floatplane. JunkersF.I3, G.24 and Ju52/3m seaplanes were used exclusively until 1936, when the first airportsto be built in Finland made the use of land- planes possible, and two Rapides wereacquired. Operations continued until the second Russo-Finnish armistice signed in theautumn of 1944 put a stop to flying in Finland, but domestic services were resumed in August1945. International operations were resumed in November 1947 when the Helsinki -Stockholm route was reopened. Until 1946 Aero O/Y was entirely private-owned, but in1947 the Government acquired a majority holding. In 1956 Finnair became the firstnon-Communist airline to operate direct into Moscow; the Helsinki - Moscow route isflown by Convair 440s. Caravelles were intro- duced in April 1960 and at present connectHelsinki to Copenhagen. Hamburg. Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and London. Convair 440soperate to Stockholm, Oslo, Turku, Copen- hagen and Cologne, while the domesticnetwork is operated mainly by DC-3s. Head Office: Toolonkatu 4, Helsinki, Finland.Executives: G. Korhonen, president; B. Aulin, vice-president technical; M. Mannio, vice-president traffic and sales; K. Temmes, vice- president operations. Fleet: three Caravelle. three Convair 340.three Convair 440, seven DC-3. On order: one Caravelle. Fjellfly is a Norwegian bush operator thatconcentrates on various types of charter services.Head Office: Skien, Norway. Executive: Snorre S. Kjetilson.Fleet: two Norseman, one Tri-Pacer. one Cessna 180, one Cessna 195, four FairchildCornell. Flinders Island Airlines (Pty) Ltd was foundedin 1952 to operate regular services between Victoria and Tasmania. Head Office: Moorabbin Airport. CheltenhamS 22, Victoria. Australia. Executives: A. M. Rea and W. T. Dwyer.Fleet: three Anson. Flugfelag Islands hf (Icelandair), founded in1937 as Flugfelag Akureyrar and began opera- tion with one Waco biplane on floats. Thepresent company name was adopted in 1940 and the name Icelandair has now replaced thetitle Iceland Airways. In 1946 the company began services to Scandinavia and the United Japan Air Lines' DC-8s are to serve London from June 1961 Kingdom. These were operated by ScottishAviation for Iceland Airways until 1948 when the company introduced its own DC-4 aircraft.DC-3s and flying-boats serve nearly a score of places in Iceland and Viscounts operate fromReykjavik to Copenhagen, Hamburg. Glas- gow, Oslo and London.Head Office: Reykjavik, Iceland. Executives: G. Vilhjalmsson, chairman; B.Gislason, vice-chairman; O. O. Johnson, general manager; J. R. Snorrason, chief pilot;B. Tomasson, chief engineer; S. K. Matthais- son, secretary; B. Thorhallsson, traffic manager(international); H. Sigurdsson, traffic manager (domestic); S. Thorbjornsson, chief account-ant; N. Simonarson, public relations officer. Employees: 260. Fleet: two Viscount 759, one DC-4. threeDC-3, one PBY-5A Canso. Flying Enterprise AB is a recently formedDanish charter operator associated with Overseas Aviation (CI) Ltd. Charter andinclusive tour work is undertaken. Head Office: Hangar 117, Copenhagen Air-port, Denmark. Executive: Hans Linde, managing director.Fleet: three Argonaut. On order: one Argo- naut. Flying Tiger—see page 509. Foshing Airlines operates internal serviceswithin Formosa. Head Office: Taipei, Taiwan.Executives: M. Chin, chairman; Ango Tai, president; H. Toy, vice-president traffic/sales;W. Tsiang, secretary. Fleet: one Catalina. two C-47, one C-46, twoBeech 18. Fred Olsen Airtransport Ltd is a subsidiary ofthe Fred Olsen shipping company. No scheduled services are operated except forsome freight services undertaken for SAS, to whom Viscounts have been leased for Nor-wegian internal services. Head Office: Oslo, Norway.Executive: R. Rynning, vice-president. Fleet: four Viscount 779 (two leased to BEA;two leased to SAS), three C-46R, one DC-3. Frontier Airlines Inc, largest local serviceairline in the USA, serves about 70 communi- ties in the 11 western states of Arizona, Col-orado, Idaho. Montana, Missouri, Nebraska. New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota,Utah and Wyoming. Its route network now covers over 6,800 miles, and in 1959 fiveConvair 340s acquired from United were put into service. Head Office: Stapleton Airfield, Denver,Colorado, USA. Executives: L. B. Maytag Jr, chairman andpresident; G. R. Woody, executive vice-presi- dent; L. P. Blatter, vice-president/treasurer;J. D. Brock, vice-president traffic and sales: H. P. Barnard, vice-president operations.Employees: 1,250. Fleet: five Convair 340, 25 DC-3. Gagnon Air Service Ltd operate Charterservices, primarily within the province of Quebec.Head Office: Kenogami, Quebec. Canada. Executives: Adrien Gagnon, president; Andre Gagnon. manager.Fleet: three Norseman, three Beaver, two Cessna 180. Garuda Indonesian Airways PT—GIA is theState-owned Indonesian airline, which had been formed by the Government and KLMas successor to KLM's post-war operations in the area and the pre-war KNILM. National-ization took place in 1954 when KLM's shares were bought up. Services are operatedwithin and between the islands of the republic and to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkokand Manila. Head Office: 15 Djalan Nusantara, Djakarta.Indonesia. Executives: Dr M. Soetoto. president; Dr R.Sugoto, vice-president; Dr C. A. Mochtar, vice-president. Fleet: three Convair 440, 18 DC-3, eightConvair 340, eight Convair 240. On order: three Electra (current). General Airways Inc is a US non-scheduledcarrier believed to be associated with Los Angeles Air Service Inc. General Airways isnot at present operating. Head Office: Portland, Oregon, USA.Fleet: two DC-3.
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