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FLIGHT International, 12 April 1962 THE WORLD'S AIRLINES... TIM—Air Charters (Tanganyika) Ltd under takes non-scheduled and charter operations throughout East Africa. Head Office: PO Box 29, Moshi, Tanganyika. Executive: T. R. U. Ballyl. Fleet: three Cessna 182. Timmins Aviation Ltd operate charter services and also operate an overhaul base. Head Office: Montreal, Canada. Executives: J. A. Timmins, president; J. J. Shannon, vice-president-treasurer. Fleet: one Beech 18, one Bonanza, one Bellanca, two Royal Gull, one Dove, one Cessna 180. Toa Airways is a Japanese operator of internal services in the Ryuku Islands, using ex-All Nippon Doves and ex-Garuda Indonesian Herons. Fleet: two Heron IB, two Dove. Toucan Air Services Ltd, previously known as Guiana Air Ltd, operates non-scheduled and charter services in British Guiana. Head Office: PO Box 795, Georgetown, British Guiana. Executives: J. H. Perkins, chairman; H. Fitt, N. E. Forster, V. J. Fitt, directors. Employees: 4. Fleet: one Cessna 172, one Cessna Skyhawk, one Cessna 140. Trabajos Aereos y Representaciones SA is one of South America's leading charter helicopter operators. Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fleet: nine Bell 47. Transaer is an Argentine independent that operates a pair of Douglas DC-2s. 1 ransair, not to be confused with the Swedish airline of that name, is a Danish carrier that concentrates on scheduled mail and news paper nights from Copenhagen to the pro vinces. Charter and survey work is also undertaken and a flying school is operated. Head Office: Frederiksberg Alle 6, Copen hagen. Executive: Chr. Fahrner. Fleet: one Beech C-45H, three Oxford, one Cessna. Trans-Air Ltd was formed in 1956 by the merger of Central Northern Airways and Arctic Wings. CNA was formed in 1947 to acquire and operate some bush routes formerly operated in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario by Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Arctic Wings, based at Churchill on Hudson Bay, had been operating scheduled passenger and mail flights north to Baker Lake and south to Fort Severn. Trans-Air at present operates scheduled services from Winnipeg terminating at Flin Flon, Lynn Lake, Ottawa, Montreal, Red Lake, Churchill and International Falls, Minnesota. Trans-Air also operates regular services linking Manitoba and Western Ontario to the northern territories. Head Office: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Executives: R. D. Turner, president; U. S. Wagner, asst general manager; S. A. Cald well, manager mainline division; Capt N. E. Weitzel, manager DEWline flight operations; F. C. McKay, secretary-treasurer; R. Busch, comptroller; S. T. Smith, manager, sales and traffic; P. J. Lyons, DEWline co-ordinator; D. A. Smith, supervisor of technical services; Capt D. M. Rose, chief pilot. Employees: 325. Fleet: one DC-6B, six DC-4, one York, four DC-3, four Canso, two Anson 5, one Bellanca 66-75, six Norseman 6, two Norseman 5, three Beaver, one Cessna 180. Transair Sweden AB operates inclusive tours for Swedish, Danish, Swiss and German travel agencies, and undertakes charter flying with passengers and freight all over the world, and also domestic night mail services. DC-3, C-46 and DC-6 services in the Congo have been operated under charter to the United Nations. Head Office: Bulltofta Airport, Malmo, Sweden. Executives: G. Ellhammar, managing director; B. Jarvell, assistant managing director; S. Persson, operations manager; B. Virving, technical manager; C. A. Lindh, sales mana ger; A. Ericsson, traffic manager. Employees: 450. Fleet: four DC-6B, three DC-6, eight C-46, two DC-3. Trans-Alaskan Airlines Inc is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier. Head Office: Burbank, California. Fleet: two DC-4 owned, one DC-6A leased. Transamerican Aeronautical Corporation is a US non-scheduled carrier. No recent news of this carrier is available. Fleet: one Convair 440. Trans Arabia Airways, a Kuwaiti carrier, commenced operating scheduled services in September 1959 out of Beirut to Kuwait with an ex-Australian National Airways DC-4. A Beirut - Damascus - Kuwait service is also operated and services from Kuwait to Jeru salem and Cairo. Operating licences to various points in the Persian Gulf and neighbouring Arab states have been granted. These will come into force when the company's re-equip ment plans are settled. Two Boeing 720Bs may be ordered. Head Office: Al-Safat Square, Kuwait, Persian Gulf. Fleet: three DC-6B, one DC-4. Trans Atlantic Airlines Inc is a US non-scheduled carrier that operated from Gatwick since March, 1961 but moved to Luxembourg at the end of the year because of disagreements with the Ministry of Aviation. Head Office: Luxembourg. Executive: Daniel Walcott, president. Fleet: two DC-4, one C-46. Trans Atlantica Argentina is an Argentine long-haul carrier that commenced operations in 1960 between Buenos Aires and Geneva via Rio de Janeiro, Recife (now Dakar) and Lisbon. A twice-weekly service is operated with ex-TWA L. 1649A Starliners, Head Office: 1171 Lavalle, Buenos Aires. Fleet: three L. 1649A Starliner. Trans-Australia Airlines are controlled on behalf of the Commonwealth Government by the Australian National Airlines Commission. Operations began on September 9, 1946 and have been extremely successful; TAA's route network covers 43,650 miles, including 7,793 miles on routes within the Territory of Papua-New Guinea. The network of routes links about 100 points in Australia and another 43 in Papua-New Guinea. These include all major cities, secondary towns and small settlements in cluded on multi-stop local service networks in Queensland, Central Australia, and Papua- New Guinea. TAA on December 18, 1954 became the first Australian airline to operate Viscounts; its first Friendship service was on May 1, 1959, while Electra operations began on July 8, 1959. TAA commenced operating the first commercial helicopter services in Australia in April 1956, and in December 1960 introduced the first regular helicopter pas senger service between Melbourne and Essendon airport. TAA also operates Doves based at Darwin and Alice Springs for the Northern Territory Australian Medical Service and Drovers for the Royal Flying Doctor Service at its four Queensland bases. Head Office: 339 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Executives: Sir Giles Chippindall, chairman; L. J. Burne, secretary; J. P. Ryland, general manager; Capt J. Chapman, assistant general manager; Capt R. E. Bailey, director of operations; L. L. McKenzie, commercial director; R. Edelsten-Pope, direc tor of finance; L. J. Watkins, director of engineering. Employees: 4,848 (on June 30, 1961). Fleet: three Electra, two Viscount 816, seven Viscount 758, three Viscount 720, nine Friend ship, two DC-4, 21 DC-3, two Otter, one Catalina, one Cessna, one Bell 47J-2, two Hiller UH-12E, two Bristol 170, five Royal Flying Doctor DHA3 Drover, three Northern Territory Medical Service Dove. 581 Transavia is an Italian independent that began operations last year and specializes in the transport of newspapers within Italy. An SIAI-Marchetti S.M.102 twin-engined light transport belonging to this operator crashed on October 22, 1961. Head Office: Milan, Italy. Trans-Canada Air Lines—TCA was founded in 1937 as the nationally-owned airline, with the stock being held by the Government Canadian National Railways. The company began operations between Vancouver and Seattle and established air mail services between Montreal and Vancouver by October 1938 and trans-continental passenger services by April 1939. In May 1948 TCA took over commercial operation of its wartime-established trans atlantic services to Britain. The airline now operates transcontinental services, services to Europe as far east as Vienna, to the USA, Bermuda, Jamaica, Bahamas, and Trinidad. TCA was the first airline to introduce Viscount services in North America. DC-8 operations started on April 1, 1960, with a daily Montreal - Toronto- Van couver service, and a DC-8 Montreal - Prest- wick - London service started on June 1, 1960. TCA began operating only DC-8 jets across the North Atlantic to the United Kingdom and Europe on January 2, 1961. Head Office: 1080 University Street, Montreal. Executives: G. R. McGregor, president; H. W. Seagrim, senior vice-president opera tions; W. G. Wood, senior vice-president sales; R. H. Tarr, secretary; Employees: 10,358. Fleet: eleven DC-8, 23 Vanguard, 49 Viscount. On order: four DC-8F Jet Trader. Trans-Caribbean Airways Inc operates ten services a week between New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a DC-8, plus three more DC-6A/B services a week to Aruba, and DC-4 all-freight services over the same route. Scheduled services commenced on March 8, 1958. The airline is owned and operated by the Transportation Corp of America. Trans- Caribbean has now acquired a 16.18 per cent interest in Caribair. Head Office: 357 Park Avenue, New York City, New York, USA. Executives: O. Roy Chalk, president; Irving M. Buckley, vice-president/treasurer; D. J. McFarland, director traffic and operations. Fleet: one DC-8 series 50, two DC-6A/B, one DC-4, one C-46. On order: one DC-8. Transcontinental SA was formed in September 1956 to operate scheduled services within Argentina and to the USA. California Eastern Aviation initially had a 25 per cent holding in Transcontinental, but this has now been reduced to 5 per cent. California Eastern has also provided technical and operational assistance, and two Super Constellations which are no longer used. Britannias operated between Buenos Aires and New York three times a week via Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Caracas, and also connected Buenos Aires and Santiago, but all international and domestic services were recently temporarily suspended. Curtiss CW-20T Commuters operated a network of domestic services in northern Argentina, to Montevideo (Uruguay) and Asuncion (Paraguay). Convair 990s are to be used on a new route to Japan and Transcontinental is reported to be in process of merging with Austral. Head Office: Cerrito 1117, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Executives: R. Masllorens, president; O. Sassoli, vice-president; A. A. Garcia, general manager. Employees: 809. Fleet: two Britannia 308, six Curtiss CW-20T. Trans-Gaspesian Air Lines Ltd operates charter services in the St Lawrence area. Fleet: three L.10, one Beech C-18S, one Widgeon, two Apache, three Cessna 180, one Beaver. Trans Global Airlines is a US intra-state and contract carrier. Head Office: 2735 East Spring Street, Long Beach, California. Fie t: one DC-4, one Super C-46, one Curtiss W-20T, one DC-3.
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