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362 FLIGHT, 7 September 1961 AIR COMMERCE Seen taking off from Montreal is a Canadair CL-44 of Flying Tiger Line. About five have been delivered to this all-freight carrier and are at present operating US domestic scheduled freight services and MATS charters across the Pacific PROCEEDINGS AGAINST FALCON—S EVEN summonses alleging contravention of the Civil AviationAct, 1949, or the Air Navigation Order, 1960, have been issued against Falcon Airways and Capt M. Kozubski, managing director.They were due to be heard at Bournemouth magistrates court yesterday, September 6. The summonses are the outcome of an eight-week Ministry ofAviation enquiry into a transatlantic flight by Capt Kozubski on March 30. The summonses concern navigation equipment and theserviceability of the radio equipment carried. One alleges than an insufficient number of dinghies were on board. —AND AGAINST OVERSEAS BANKRUPTCY proceedings against Overseas Aviation (CI)Ltd, the Jersey-registered company of Mr Ronald Myhill, were instituted at Jersey Royal Court on August 26. The action wasbrought by Mr B. Bisson on behalf of WAAC (Nigeria) Ltd, pre- sumably for outstanding commitments on three Herons purchasedearlier in the year. The court was told that there were no assets in the Island and no money in the bank. According to a notice in the London Gazette of August 25 thedate for the hearing of the petition for the compulsory winding up of Overseas Aviation (CI) Ltd is October 9. The petition was presentedon August 17 by BP Trading Ltd and Rolls-Royce, and the hearing will take place at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, WC2. The 200 engineers employed by Overseas Aviation Engineering(GB) Ltd stopped work on August 22 after sending an ultimatum to Mr Myhill demanding to know what their future was. Sheriff'sofficers moved into the Gatwick hangar of the grounded airline on August 25 and took furniture away. It is reported that Mr H. Snowball, managing director of Air-borne Aviation Services (Gatwick), has agreed terms, subject to contract, for the purchase of the Overseas Aviation Engineering(GB) Ltd hangar at Gatwick. Price is not disclosed; when the hangar was opened in the summer of last year cost was said to be£300,000 Flight. June 24, 1960, page 881). BUA have also been bidding for this hangar, which borders their Gatwick base. MELBOURNE AND THE JETS THE Australian Government's decision not to allocate anyFederal funds in the 1961-62 budget for construction of a jet airport for Melbourne has proved very unpopular with thatcity. More than £2m has already been spent in land reclama- tion at Tullamarine, site of the new jet airport some three milesfrom Essendon, and about 5,000 acres are being reclaimed from private ownership. Otherwise little progress has been made,although plans for the airport have been on paper for at least two years. Senator Paltridge. Australian Minister for CivilAviation, issued a press statement that the Government was conscious of Melbourne's needs but was awaiting a decision byAnsett-ANA and TAA on the jets they would order. But the latter's choice of jets will be considerably affected by a decisionon Tullamarine and by the Government's attitude to any differences of opinion between Ansett-ANA and TAA in thetypes of jets they want. Mr Ansett has now accepted the fact that the Boeing 727,which (according to an Australian correspondent) he has pretty well decided in theory to order, would not be permitted tooperate at Essendon, which is being badly damaged and broken up even by Electras. First 727 deliveries to Ansett wouldtherefore have to coincide with the opening of Tullamarine. TAA are nothing like so definite, but they like the Caravelle 7(the only version of the Caravelle they would buy) and are "very respectful" about the 727 and Trident. Both carriersassume that they will be permitted to have two types of jet each, and Mr Ansett is thinking in terms of the 727 and BACOne-Eleven. As the BAC-107 (which both Ansett and TAA are said to prefer) is evidently shelved for a considerableperiod, the BAC One-Eleven would appear to be "well in the picture." The One-Eleven has the advantage that it is beingoffered with special 87 psi low-pressure tyres which would make it suitable for operating into Essendon if noise objections can be overcome. Ansett-ANA and TAA are now thinking interms of getting One-Elevens to operate for a short time into Essendon prior to the opening of Tullamarine in, say, 1965. FRIENDSHIPS FOR EAAC AND DTA EAST AFRICAN AIRWAYS, as already reported, is to buythree Fokker Friendships to replace some of its nine DC-3sand three Canadair DC-4Ms on regional routes. In a press state- ment EAAC said that it "is seeking guarantees for the financeinvolved in an initial order for three Friendships to be delivered by the end of 1962." A repeat order for a further seven Friendshipsmay eventually be placed. East African Airways thus becomes the twelfth Commonwealth airline to order Friendships. Theother ten are Ansett-ANA, Airlines of NSW, Airlines of South Australia, Queensland Airlines, East-West Airlines, Mac.Robert-son Miller Airlines, NZNAC, TAA, Indian Airlines Corporation and Pakistan International Airlines. Following the recently announced order for three Friendshipsfrom DETA of Mozambique, its sister airline in Angola, DTA (Divisao de Exploracao dos Transportes Aereos) has ordered twoFriendship Series 200s for delivery in the second half of 1962. DTA operates over an unduplicated route network of 3,300 miles withseven DC-3s, four Beechcraft 18s and three Rapides. DTA is the third African carrier to place a firm order for Friendships; SudanAirways has three on order and DETA three. A total of 102 Friendships has now been sold by Fokker. Nigeria Airways areunderstood to be considering the purchase of seven Friendships. FIGHT FOR SHOBDEN T N a fight to save Shobden airfield, 20 miles north-west of Here-1 ford, from being sold as farmland, the Herefordshire Aero Club, 26 High Street, Leominster, is conducting a survey to assessthe potential use of the airfield. The Herefordshire County Council has agreed to reconsider the purchase of Shobden as a civil airport,provided it appears to be a good investment. Shobden is the only airfield in the area suitable for civil use, and questionnaires havebeen circulated by the club to local firms, residents and members of the Business Aircraft Users Association. According to the Herefordshire Aero Club there are several air-lines interested in operating services from Shobden. Results of their survey will be passed to the airlines and to a County Councilcommittee. ("Air Commerce " news is continued on page 401)
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