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1962
1962 - 0576.PDF
574 THE WORLD'S AIRLINES... have operated regular mail service between Stockholm and numerous points in the Stock holm archipelago. This service has been operated with very high standards of reliability and regularity. During 1955 the company operated S-55 services, for a short time, between Sweden and Denmark. Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden. Executive: N. Billing, managing president. Employees: 110. Fleet: one Dornier Do28, one Dornier Do27, one S-55, 17 Bell 47, two Seabee. Overseas National Airways Inc is one of the largest supplemental carriers in the USA. DC-6A/Bs and ex-American Airlines DC-7s leased from the General Aircraft & Leasing Inc are operated on commercial and military charter work. Two Canadair CL-44s are to be leased from the Flying Tiger Line if the CAB approves. Head Office: 1000 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington 6, DC. Executives: G. W. Tompkins, president; J. R. Forrest, executive vice-president/treasurer; A. Goldberg, vice-president operations/main tenance; W. A. Hardenstine, vice-president Fleet: 12 DC-7, three DC-6A/B. Ozark Air Lines Inc was incorporated under the laws of the State of Missouri on September 1, 1943, and filed applications for CAB certificate to serve 28 cities in six states. Charter and intra-state services in Missouri were operated in 1944 and 1945. Ozark was awarded a three-year certificate in 1950, took over the assets and staff of Parks Air Lines and began scheduled operations between St Louis and Chicago on September 26, 1950. The company now has permanent certifica tion and operates 5,273 miles of routes serving 54 cities in ten Mid-western states. Four ex-Deutsche Flugdienst Convair 240s have recent ly been acquired. Head Office: St Louis. Missouri, USA. Executives: F. W. Jones, chairman of the board; J. H. Fitzgerald, president; Jean Paul Bradshaw, senior vice-president; A. G. Heyne, secretary; E. H. Green, treasurer; C. L. Tabor, vice-president schedules and tariffs. Employees: 1.100. Fleet: three Fairchild F-27, four Convair 240, 23 DC-3. PAB—see Panair do Brasil. Pacific Air Lines was founded as Southwest Airways Company in 1941 and began airline operations at the end of 1946 when it opened its San Francisco - Los Angeles route. The company now has 2,260 miles of routes all within California, except for its services to Medford and Portland in Oregon and to Las Vegas, Nevada. Southwest was a pioneer of the quick turn-round at intermediate points with stops of only one to two minutes. At refuelling stops the turn-round time is six minutes. The present title was adopted early in 1958. Head Office: International Airport, San Francisco, Cal, USA. Executives: L. Hayward, chairman; J. H. Connelly, president; T. R. Mitchell, executive vice-president; E. Roger Dahl, treaurer; R. E. Costello, vice-president traffic; Robert J. Dixon, director of sales and advertising; C. A. Myhre, vice-president finance; H. White, vice-president operations. Employees: 750. Fleet: six F-27, three DC-3, two Martin 2-0-2, eight Martin 4-0-4, one PBY Catalina (for sale), one Lockheed L.12A (for sale). Pacific Northern Airlines—PNA was formed in 1932 as Woodley Airways. A post office mail contract was awarded in 1934 and in 1938 the airline received CAB certification. The present company was incorporated in 1945 and in 1951 PNA was granted a certificate by CAB to connect its Alaskan routes with Seattle - Tacoma and Portland. Services are now operated within Alaska and between Alaskan Points and Seattle and Portland. Head Office: Seattle, Washington, USA. Executives: A. G. Woodley, president; J. A. Cunningham, vice-president operations; Harold A. Olsen, vice-president traffic and sales; J. H. Foster, vice-president engineering and maintenance; Felix Aubuchon, vice-presi dent Alaska operations; Thomas Stuart, vice- president personnel; C. W. Nelson, secretary-treasurer. Employees: 617. Fleet: seven L.749 Constellation (two leased), three DC-3. On order: two Boeing 720-062. Pacific Southwest Airlines—PSA operates ser vices linking San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Head Office: San Diego, Cal, USA. Executives: K. G. Friedkin, president; H. N. Wood, traffic and sales manager; J. F. Andrews, chief of operations. Fleet: five Electra. Pacific Western Airlines Ltd—PWA was founded in 1946 as Central British Columbia Airways, and has become the third largest air line in Canada by acquisition of Associated Airways at Edmonton, and Queen Charlotte Airlines at Vancouver. The company operates an extensive network of scheduled and non-scheduled routes throughout British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Terri tories and Alaska. PWA has also been one of the prime contractors operating the extensive airlift in connection with defence projects in Canada's extreme north. Head Office: Vancouver, BC, Canada. Executives: Karl J. Springer, chairman and president; D. F. Granger, secretary/treasurer. Employees: 466. Fleet: three DC-4, five Super 46C, five DC-3, five Anson 5, four Otter, 17 Beaver, three Cessna 180, one Cessna 182. PAL—see Philippine Air Lines. Panair do Brasil SA—PAB. In October 1929 the Brazilian Government authorized New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Inc (NYRBA) to operate services in Brazil, and Nyrba do Brasil was created as a Brazilian subsidiary. A service was begun between Rio de Janeiro and Belem. In August 1930 Pan American Airways took over both NYRBA and Nyrba do Brasil and the.latter became Panair do Brasil on September 15 that year. PAB developed ser vices with Sikorsky S-38 and Consolidated Commodore flying-boats. These were later replaced by Fairchild 91s and Sikorsky S-43s and, although Panair now operates an extensive Brazilian and South American route network with Constellations, Catalinas still operate the Amazon routes. Panair also operate services from South America to London, Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, Lisbon, and Beirut. "Friend ship Flights" between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro via Ilha do Sal and Recife are operated in conjunction with TAP. These are limited to Brazilian and Portuguese nationals, and fares are well below IATA rates. Panair is now wholly Brazilian-owned, PanAm's hold ing having been bought out. Head Office: Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Executives: Paulo Sampaio, president; Dr C. P. de Mello, director superintendent; Dr A. T. Filho, secretary. Employees: 4,6l0. Fleet: four DC-8, 12 L.049, three DC-7C, six Convair PBY-5A. On order: four Caravelle 6R. Pan American-Grace Airways Inc—Panagra was founded in 1928 by W. R. Grace & Co, an industrial, trading and shipping concern, and FLIGHT International, 12 April 1962 Pan American Airways under the name oi Peruvian Airways Inc. In 1929, now known as Panagra, the airline was awarded a mail contract for a route from Panama down the west coast of South America to Santiago and across the Andes to Buenos Aires. By the end of 1929 Panagra was operating from the Canal Zone to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay; service to Bolivia was added in 1940. Equipment inter change agreements with PanAm and National provide through services linking these coun tries to New York, Washington and Miami. Panagra's DC-8s, which entered service in 1960, provide daily "El Interamericano" service between New York and Lima, five times a week to Santiago and six times a week to Buenos Aires; DC-7Bs are still operated to Buenos Aires. A weekly DC-7B all-cargo service runs from Miami to Santiago. Head Office: 135 East 42nd Street, New York. Executives: A. B. Shea, president; D. Campbell, vice-president/general manager; T. J. Kirk-land, vice-president operations; A. J. Phelan. vice-president/comptroller; C. S. Collins, vice-president traffic and sales. Employees: 1,191. Fleet: three DC-8 owned, one DC-8 leased to another carrier, five DC-7B, one DC-7B freighter. Pan American World Airways Inc—PanAm is the only major US airline concerned entirely with overseas operations. Pan American Airways Inc was founded in March 1927 and began operation of its first route, between Key West and Havana, in October 1927. Fokker monoplanes were used. PAA extended its operation throughout the Caribbean and built up flying-boat services, which by 1931 had reached the Argentine. PAA was a great pioneer of transocean flying and by 1935 had established services between San Fran cisco and Manila via Honolulu, Midway. Wake and Guam. Hong Kong was served from 1936. In 1937 New York - Bermuda services were opened in co-operation with Imperial Airways and in the same year the two companies began transatlantic survey flights. Passenger service began in 1939. The airline now operates a route network covering about 69,000 miles, serves all con tinents and has regular round-the-world flights. Pan American took its present title in 1949. Pan American operates the 6,000- mile long Atlantic missile range from Florida into the South Atlantic under contract to the United States Air Force and an electronic environmental test facility in Arizona under contract to the United States Army. Inter national Hotels Corp, organized by PanAm in 1946 at the suggestion of the US Govern ment, operates hotels in Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. Head Office: New York, USA. Executives: Juan T. Trippe, president; Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice-president Latin American Division; Harold E. Gray, executive vice-president Overseas Division; Robert B. Murray, executive vice-president; John C. Leslie, vice-president and assistant to the president; Hubert A. Schneider, vice-president and general counsel; Harold Graham, cargo sales director. Employees: 22,886. Fleet: 20 DC-8, 22 Boeing 707-321. six Boeing 707-331, 29 DC-6B, 11 DC-7C, six Boeing 707-121. seven DC-7B, nine DC-4 (cargo). 13 DC-7F. On order: five Boeing 707-321B. Pakistan International Airlines Corporation— PIA was founded by the Government of A Bristol Super freighter operated by Channel Air Bridge on behalf of Sobena
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