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Convair 880 of Delta Air Lines 558 FLIGHT International, 12 April 1962 founded British Guiana Airways Ltd to operate regular, subsidized services. By the end of the war the company had acquired Dakotas and Goose amphibians. In July 1955 the Government bought out the airline, and its name was changed to British Guiana Air ways (Govt). The company operates sched uled domestic services as well as charter flying both domestically and to neighbouring territories. Head Office: Box 102, Georgetown, British Guiana. Executives: Capt J. M. Farquharson, general manager; H. E. Wendt, technical manager; J. P. Wilson, chief pilot; S. H. Kennard, engineering superintendent; E. P. Christiani. accountant/secretary; J. de Frietas, traffic superintendent. Employees: 194. Fleet: three DC-3, three Goose. THE WORLD'S AIRLINES... BNP Airways Ltd is a small charter operator based in Vancouver. Major overhauls are carried out on behalf of other operators. Head Office: Vancouver, BC, Canada. Executives: T. Ingledow, president; G. Wil liamson, general manager. Fleet: three Goose. Bonanza Air Lines Inc was established in 1945 and began services between Las Vegas and Reno on August 5, 1946. With 15 years of experience the company is now operating about 2,400 miles of routes in Nevada, Arizona, Utah and California. F.27A "Silver Dart" services began on March 29, 1959 and are now operated to 20 cities, the DC-3s having been phased out. Bonanza was the first LIS certificated carrier to operate an all- turbine fleet, and in 1961 rose from 10th place to 1st place in overall load factor among the 13 local service airlines. Excursion fares and package tours are offered, notably to the Grand Canyon area. Bonanza now offers excursion fares from every point on its routes, as well as the "Bonanzaland" area-fare tariff which allows unlimited, unrestricted transport over Bonanza's routes at a cost of S90 for a two-week period or SI60 for a three-week period. Head Office: Box 391. Las Vegas, Nevada. Executives: Edmund Converse, president and chairman; G. Robert Henry, executive vice- president and director; M. W. Reynolds, vice- president operations; R. J. Sherer, vice- president finance and treasurer; Arthur M. Taylor, general counsel and secretary; L. Decker, vice-president traffic and sales. Employees: 512 Fleet: ten Fairchild F.27A. On order: one F.27A. Borneo Airways Ltd was formed in March 1958 and has as its main shareholders (with a 51 per cent holding) the Governments of the Colonies of Sarawak and British North Borneo and the State of Brunei. BOAC and Malayan Airways Limited respectively have holdings of 42.33 per cent and 6.66 per cent. Internal services are operated throughout the three British territories in Borneo using Twin Pioneers, with Labuan as a base. Head Office: Labuan. British North Borneo. Executives: D. E. M. Fiennes, chairman; Capt T. M. Robertson, manager; Capt R. Ff. Nicholls. chief pilot; J. McLean, commercial superintendent; M. G. Lyons, secretary/ accountant. Employees: 160. Fleet: three Twin Pioneer. Braathens—South-American and Far East Air transport A/S (SAFE) was formed in 1946 by the Norwegian Braathen shipping concern for the operation of long-distance charter services. Following non-scheduled flights to the Far East the company operated regular scheduled services between Norway and Hong Kong from 1949 until March 1954 when the licence was not renewed by the Norwegian Government. The company now concentrates on scheduled internal services. Braathens also collaborates with Loftleidir in the operation of its Europe - Iceland - North America services. With the liquidation of Vestlandske Airways in the spring of 1958 the routes flown by this company were taken over by Braathens. An ex-North west Orient DC-6A was acquired in 1960. Head Office: Oslo, Norway. Executives: L. G. Braathen, president; B. G. Braathen. vice-president; E. Froysaa, commer cial manager; J. Rad, operations manager. Employees: 500. Fleet:'one DC-6A/B, one DC-4, two DC-3, three F.27. On order: one F.27. Bradley Air Services Ltd operates non-sched uled and charter services, mostly in Ontario, and including pest control work, a flying school and aircraft sales and repairs. Bradley are also specialists in Arctic flying and high- level photography. Head Office: Carp, Ontario. Executives: R. L. Bradley, president; W. W. Phipps, vice-president; E. Hall, secretary- treasurer. Fleet: one Lockheed P-38, two Beech AT-11. three Apache, one Beaver, seven Super Cub. four Tri-Pacer, three Cub, three Colt, three Cessna 180, one Cessna 140, one Aeronca, one Luscombe, one Voyager, four Stearman biplanes, one Norseman, one Taylorcraft. Braniff International Airways Inc. The original Braniff company was founded in 1928 by Paul and Tom Braniff; and the line's first aircraft, a Stinson Detroiter, bore the title Tulsa-Oklahoma City Airline on its fuselage. In 1929 the airline became part of the Universal Aviation Corporation and in 1930 Braniff Airways was organized as an independent company. The word International was added to the title in 1948. when services were begun to Havana and Lima. The airline now operates 18,432 miles of routes in the United States and to Mexico and South America. US domestic routes go from New York as far west as Denver, and from Minneapolis/St Paul down to Texas and Louisiana. The South American routes are via the west coast to Lima, from where they branch to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, La Paz, Asuncion and Buenos Aires. Interchange agreements with United provide through- plane service to Portland and Seattle, and with Eastern through-plane service to South America via New York and Miami. An equip ment interchange agreement with PanAm will, subject to CAB approval, provide direct one- plane 707 services between Houston, Dallas and points in Europe. Head Office: Exchange Park, Dallas. Texas, USA. Executives: C. E. Beard, president; R. K. Brack and R. V. Carleton, senior vice-presi dents; F. J. Beisecker, vice-president and controller; R. H. Burck, vice-presedent traffic and sales; D. Hughes, vice-president opera tions; O. W. Crane, treasurer; Jay M. Jackson, secretary arid legal counsel. Employees: 5,498. Fleet: four Boeing 707-227, three Boeing 720-027, nine Electra, six DC-7C, one DC-6A, nine DC-6, six Convair 440, 24 Convair 340, two C-46 freighters. On order: one Boeing 720-027, 12 BAC One-Eleven (1964-65). British Guiana Airways (Govt)—BGA. In 1934 A. J. Williams, a US citizen, began charter operations in British Guiana with a single-engined Ireland flying boat. The busi ness prospered and in 1939 Mr Williams British Honduras Airways Ltd—BHA bough the assets of the Airline Division of British Colonial Airlines on October 24, 1956, and operated the internal services worked by the earlier company. Scheduled services ceased last summer and only charter work is now undertaken. BHA is a wholly owned subsidiary ofBWIA. Head Office: Box 186, Belize, British Honduras. Executive: Col T. S. Baker, manager. Fleet: two Cessna 180, two Cessna 170. British West Indian Airways Ltd—BWIA was a wholly owned subsidiary of BOAC until November 1. 1961. when the Trinidad Govern ment acquired control, BOAC retaining a 10 per cent holding. The company was originally organized in 1940 and began operations with one Lodestar. In 1947 British South American Airways acquired control of BWIA and this passed to BOAC when it took over BSAA. In 1949 BOAC took over British Caribbean Air ways and merged its operations with those of BWIA. An extensive network of Caribbean services is now operated from Bermuda as far south as Georgetown (British Guiana) and west to Belize (British Honduras). New York is also served. Viscounts are used on the major routes, supplemented by Britannias and Boeing 707s chartered from BOAC for the New York- Bridgetown-Port of Spain and Bermuda- St John's-Bridgetown - Port of Spain routes. BHA and LIAT are subsidiaries of BWIA. Head Office: Port of Spain, Trinidad. BWI. Executives: Sir Errol dos Santos, president: H. O. B. Wooding, chairman; J. H. Rahr. general manager; Capt P. W. Kelshall, assist ant general manager, technical; Capt B. P. O'Duffy, operations manager; B. F. Pantin. general sales manager; W. Girling, manager stations and traffic; J. A. H. Kinch, sales manager, Caribbean; A. W. Johnston, sales manager. North America; R. B. Haseldine. comptroller and secretary. Employees: 1.044. Fleer: four Viscount, three DC-3. Byerly Aviation Inc used to operate a regular service from Jacksonville, Illinois, to Peoria where it connected with Ozark flights to and from Chicago. This service has been tem porarily suspended but Byerly continues charter flying, operating a flying school and as a fixed base operator. A branch was opened at the Memorial Airport, Pueblo. Colorado under the name Byerly Airlines for fixed base operation, but Byerly ceased opera tions at Pueblo on January 31, 1962. Head Office: Greater Peoria Airport, Peoria. Illinois. Executives: R. M. Byerly, president; W. M. Staker, vice-president; R. F. Sitton, treasurer: L. L. Byerly, secretary. Employees: 15. Fleet: one Lockheed L-10A, Aztec, three Comanche, five tri-Pacer. three others. California Eastern Aviation Inc, which changed its name last year to the Dynatronics Corp, has widespread interests in the aviation and missile industries and in air transport, although it does not operate any passenger or freight services. The com pany has a 5 per cent share in the Argentine carrier Transcontinental SA, for whom technical and operational assistance has been provided, and also two L.1049H Super Constellations. These were returned by
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