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PLIGHT International, 12 April 1962 Executives; Miss E. Rudnick, director; J. W. Reid, general manager; A. L. Hubbard, secretary; J. Beyen, chief pilot. Fleet: one Sikorsky S-55, five Bell 47D-1, one Cessna 180. Rutas Aereas de Colombia Ltda—RAS took over the air services operated by Sociedad Aeronautica Medellin SA which began scheduled operations in January 1955. A service linking Medellin and Bogota to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo via Manaus was operated, and regional services were operated • ii Central America. KLM has supplied RAS with equipment. RAS ceased operations last year, but Sociedad Aeronautica Medellin continues to operate as a separate company. Mead Office: Medcllin, Colombia. Fleet: two DC-6B, three DC-3, three DC-4. Rutas Aereas Nacionales SA—RANSA was founded as a private company in 1948. The company has CAB authorization to carry passengers, mail and cargo between Venezuela and Miami via Aruba (Netherlands Antilles) and Jamaica, but at present only cargo services are operated between these countries. A Stratocruiser was acquired in 1961 and con verted to a freighter; it was put into service tast October. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela. Executives: C. Chavez, president; E. Pardey, general manager, E. E. Jones, vice-president; R. D. Borges, operations manager. Fleet: one Stratocruiser, 13 C-46, one E50 Twin Bonanza, three Beaver, six Cessna 180. DC-6A and Cessna 170 are also used. Rutas Aereas SAM Ltda—RAS, see Rutas Aereas de Colombia. Sabena Belgian World Airlines—Soci6te Ano-nyme Beige d'Exploitation de la Navigation Airienne was founded in 1923 as a successor to SNETA. Sabena developed a European network and later routes to and in the Congo. The airline now has an extensive route net work in Europe, to the Middle East as far as Teheran, to Africa as far as Johannesburg, within the Congo and from Brussels to Montreal, New York and Mexico City. Sabena is the only operator of international helicopter services. Following helicopter mail operations in Belgium, which started on August 21,1950, the company began passenger services to Holland on September 1, 1953, and its S-58s now cover an extensive network radiating from Brussels. Sabena commenced Boeing 707 services between Brussels and Leopoldville on January 19, 1960 and to New York and Johannesburg on January 23 and 25, 1960. Sabena started Caravelle services on February 18, 1961 and these aircraft are serving 27 cities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Sabena is a member of the Air Union consortium. Head Office: Brussels, Belgium. Executives: G. Perier, chairman; G. Claeys, managing director; W. Deswarte, president; G. Dieu, deputy president; A. Vernieuwe, senior vice-president operations; Roger Nys, secretary-general; F. Pirson, senior vice- president technical. Employees: 9,292. Fleet: four Boeing 707-329, eight DC-7C, seven DC-6B, eight Caravelle 6, two DC-6, nine Convair 440, seven DC-4, 29 DC-3, five S-58, one Aloutte II, one Bell 47H-1, four Cessna M0. On order: two Boeing 707-329. Sadia SA Transportes Aereos was formed in 1956 and operates third-class services from Sao Paulo to other points in south-east Brazil. There is also a DC-3 freight service between Sao Paulo and Concordia. Head Office: 470 Rua Sao Bento, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Fleet: two C-46, two DC-3. Salta CA operates internal charter services within Venezuela. Fleet: one Beech, two Cessna 310B, two Cessna 190, two Cessna 180, one Cessna 175, one Helio H-391 Courier. Samoan Air Lines operates seven flights a week between Apia and Pago Pago (US Samoa) m competition with Polynesian Airlines. It is believed that Hawaiian Air lines have provided technical assistance and equipment to Samoan. Head Office: 1601 North Gower Street, Hollywood 28, California, USA. Fleet: DC-3. San Francisco & Oakland Helicopter Airlines Inc—SFO is a US helicopter operator formed in 1961 by a group of former Los Angeles Airways personnel. SFO began services on June 1, 1961 between the airports and down town heliports in San Francisco and Oakland; flights to Berkeley are also operated. SFO intends to operate on a non-subsidy basis, and is the first helicopter operator to have an all-turbine powered fleet. Two Sikorsky S-62s have been acquired on a lease purchase agreement with the manufacturers; a third will be deliv ered in May, 1962. Flights to Palo Alto, San Jose and Sacramento will be offered in the near future. Head Office: San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco 28, California. Executives: M. F. Bagan, president; B. F. DeHaas, vice-president operations; J. J. Cunningham, vice-president services. Employees: 55. Fleet: two S-62. On order: one S-62. Saskatchewan Government Airways—SGA was founded in 1947 by the Provincial Government taking over the M. & C. Aviation Co to operate services in North Saskatchewan from Prince Albert. Charter flying for prospectors and hunting and fishing parties is also under taken. All aircraft except the DC-3 and Beechcraft are operated on floats in summer and skis in winter. SGA also leases aircraft to the Forest Fire Control Branch of the Department of Natural Resources. Head Office: Prince Albert Airport, Sask, Canada. Executives: W. A. Houseman, managing director; Hon A. G. Kusiak, minister; I. Macleod, operations manager; M. W. Christie, sales and traffic manager; J. A. Pool, chief engineer. Employees: 84. Fleet: one DC-3, five Norseman, one Beech-craft D-18S, one Otter, five Beaver, six Cessna 180, one Piper Super Cub. Saturn Airways Inc, until 1960 known as All American Airways Inc, is a US supple mental and non-scheduled carrier which was granted a two-year operating certificate in January 1959. An office in London handles European charter business, and 90-passenger DC-6Bs are operated. Head Office: PO Box 48-182, Miami, Florida. Executives: Robert C. Goodman, president; Harold D. Cope, vice-president; Ralph Sacks, vice-president sales; Edward Scoot, European sates. Fleet: two DC-6B, four Super C-46. Saudi Arabian Airlines was founded in 1946 by the Government and is managed by TWA. The airline began operations in 1947 and now has about 6,500 miles of routes within Saudi Arabia and to the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria), the Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Eritrea, Aden and Sudan. Considerable pilgrim traffic is carried. Head Office: Box 167, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Executives: Shehab Abdul jawad, director general; Orkhan G. Trabzony, financial director; R. W. Wilson, technical manager. Fleet: one DC-6B, three DC-4, ten Convair 340, ten DC-3, two Cessna 180, two Aeronca Champion. On order: two Boeing 720-068B. SAVAG—SA Viacao Aerea Gaucha. Founded in 1946 as a private company to operate services in the State of Rio Grande, the original fleet consisted of three Lodestars. Cruzeiro do Sul supplies SAVAG with crews, provides maintenance and technical assistance and also handles reservations. SAVAG operates a stopping service from Curitiba to Porto Alegre in conjunction with Cruzeiro. Head Office: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Executives: E. C. Becker, president; V. V. de Fonesca, vice-president; T. Fruet, operations manager. Fleet: six DC-3. Scandinavian Airlines System—SAS is a con sortium of Swedish Air Lines (ABA), Danish Air Lines (DDL) and Norwegian Air Lines (DNL) in the proportions 3, 2 and 2. SAS originally came into being in 1946, for the operation of transatlantic services, and both 577 North and South Atlantic routes were opened in that year. All routes of the three airlines are now operated by SAS with the original airlines acting as holding companies. SAS maintains Scandinavian internal ser vices, a European network and routes to South Africa, the Middle and Far East, and to North and South America. Caravelle services commenced on May 15, 1959, and are now operated to the Middle East, Africa and to London. DC-8 services are now operated to Los Angeles, to South America, to Africa, and the Far East both over the Pole and via south-east Asia. SAS has a minority shareholding in Thai Airways International, to which it has supplied technical and ad ministrative assistance and equipment. Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden. Executives: Curt Nicolin, president ad interim; Ante Wickberg, executive vice- president marketing; Olof Carlstein, executive vice-president technical; Knut Hagrup, execu tive vice-president operations. Employees: 14,635. Fleet: seven DC-8, eight DC-7C, 17 Caravelle (four leased to Swissair), 20 Convair 440. Two Convair 990 Coronado to be leased from Swissair. On order: one Caravelle. Scanair A/S was formed last July and is a Scandinavian charter company in which SAS has a 45 per cent holding. The rest of Scanair's capital is divided between Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget (SAAB), the Danish East Asiatic shipping company and the Norwegian shipping firm Mariana (Fearnley and Eger). Scanair undertakes charters and inclusive tours using 84-passenger DC-7Cs leased from SAS. Head Office: Codanhus, 60 G. I. Kongevej, Copenhagen, Denmark. Fleet: two DC-7C leased from SAS. Schreiner Aero Contractors NV is a Dutch company engaging in various aspects of civil aviation. It is jointly owned by Luchtvaart Technische Handel Maatschappij Schreiner & Co NV and the Rotterdam shipping com pany Phs. Van Ommeren. Aero Contrac tors Co of Nigeria Ltd is a subsidiary of Schreiner's. Head Office: Carel van Bylandtlaan 8, The Hague, Netherlands. Executives: B. A. M. Schreiner, managing director; Dr H. van Zanten, commercial director; W. O. P. R. Aernout, director of operations. Employees: 120. Fleet: one Dornier Do 27Q-4, four Harvard, one Piper Colt, three Bell 47J, two Alouette, one Djinn, one Hughes Model 269A. Schweizerische Helicopter AG—Heliswiss oper ates local charter helicopter services, including a "flying ski lift" for skiers, aerial survey work and a helicopter pilot training school. In 1957 Heliswiss took over Air Import. Head Office: Waaghausgasse 3, Berne, Switzerland. Executives: W. Horning, chairman; E. Amstutz, vice-president; H. Aeschbacher, director; J. Britt, Henri Genert, A. Morant. Fleet: three Bell 47G-2, one Bell 47G-1, one Bell 47J. Seaboard World Airlines Inc, until 1961 known as Seaboard and Western Airlines Inc, began non-scheduled operations in 1947 and on April 10, 1956 began scheduled North Atlantic freight services from New York. Points served in Europe now include Shannon, Glas gow, London, Brussels, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Cologne, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich, Paris, Geneva, Basle and Zurich. MATS charter work is also undertaken. Canadair CL-44 services began on July 25, 1961 between Frankfurt and New York. Seaboard has proposed the carriage of "top-off" passengers on transatlantic cargo flights at a single fare of £47 10s between London and New York. The airline is making available to Lufthansa 20,0001b of freight capacity per flight on six round trips per week between New York and Frankfurt. Canadair now has a 5 per cent holding in Seaboard. Head Office: New York International Airport, Building 178, Jamaica 30, New York, USA. Executives: R. M. Jackson, president and chairman of the board; J. H. Mahoney, senior vice-president sales; J. J. Casey, senior vice-president operations; S. I. Fondiler, senior
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