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[LIGHT International, 12 April 1962 THE WORLD'S AIRLINES... papides, and undertakes charter work as well is wild game viewing flights. The company is i i affiliate of United Air Carriers. Head Office: Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. Fleet: three Rapide, one Tri-Pacer. Vieques Airways Corp was authorized by the CAB last year to operate air taxi services between points in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Jsiands. It is not known what equipment is used. VSardair Canada Ltd. This Canadian bush operator's history goes back to 1946 when Maxwell Ward started operations from Yellow-knife as the Polaris Charter Co Ltd with a single Fox Moth, flying charters in support of the rapidly developing mining industry of the Northwest Territory. Wardair Ltd was formed in 1952 to continue this work, and started operations with an Otter. The com pany's name was changed last summer to Wardair Canada Ltd, and its licence is now amended to include international charters. An ex-CPAL DC-6A/B was recently added to the fleet. Head Office: Macdonald Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta. Executive: Maxwell Ward, president. Fleet: one DC-6A/B, one Freighter 31, three Otter, one Beaver. West Coast Air Services Ltd operates charter services in British Columbia. Head Office: Vancouver, BC, Canada. Fleet: one Beaver, one Tri-Pacer, one Cessna 132A, four Cessna 172, one Cessna 175, one Cessna 180, two Cessna 150. West Coast Airlines Inc—WCA is the oldest L'S local service airline in point of actual service. WCA was founded in 1941 under the laws of the State of Washington for the opera tion of passenger, mail and express services in the Pacific Coast area, but the CAB held the application over until after the war and only granted certificates in 1946; operations began on December 5 that year. In August 1952 WCA took over Empire Air Lines, inaugurated in September 1946. WCA was the first airline in the world to operate Friendships, with which services were started on September 28, 1958. WCA now serves over 60 cities along some 4,000 route miles in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California, Montana and Utah. Services now extend over the Canadian border to Calgary, Alberta and as far south as San Francisco. Head Office: Boeing Field, Seattle 8. Wash ington, USA. Executives: N. Bez, president; H. Scheurer, executive vice-president; L. J. Hawkinson, secretary-treasurer; E. B. Code, vice-president planning and administration; S. R. Severtson, wee-president operations; T. Croson, vice-president community and public relations: S. M. Seily, vice-president maintenance. Employees: 800. Fleet: seven Fairchild F.27, 14 DC.3. West Coast Airways Ltd commenced opera tions in November 1956 and flies scheduled services between Hokitika and Franz Josef G iacier, Fox Glacier, Haast and Milford Sound. Head Office: Seaview Airport, Hokitika, New Zealand! Fleet: two D.H.89, one Cessna 180. Westair is the operating name adopted by the Aviation Corp of Seattle, a US non-scheduled und supplemental carrier awarded a two-year operating certificate in January 1959. An office in Geneva is maintained. Head Office: Boeing Field, Seattle, Washing- ion, USA. Fleet: one DC-4, four C-46. Western Airlines Inc—WAL claims to be the - aited States' oldest airline, having been ounded in 1925 as Western Air Express. The present name was legally adopted on March 11, '941. WAL now operates 9,150 miles of Routes in the Western and mid-West states, nying as far east as Minneapolis/St Paul, northwards across the Canadian border to ^ilgary and Edmonton and southwards to Mexico City. Head Office: Los Angeles International Air port, Los Angeles, California, USA. Executives: T. C. Drinkwater. president; D. P. Renda, vice-president legal/secretary; J. J. Raylor, vice-president treasurer; R. S. Shatto, vice-president operations; M. W. Landes, vice-president service; S. Gewirtz, vice-presi dent administration; A. F. Kelly, vice-president sales. Fleet: four Boeing 720-047B, 12 Electra, 22 DC-6B (six leased to Alaska and Slick). On order: three Boeing 720-047B; two Boeing 707-139 are leased from Boeing. Western Alaskan Airlines Inc operates services radiating from Dillingham and King Salmon, south-west Alaska, many of which used to be operated by Pacific Northern Airlines. Head Office: Dillingham, Alaska. Executives: Albert W. Bell, president; Myron Moran, vice-president; Clarence Wren, secre tary/treasurer. Fleet: Grumman Goose, Lockheed L-12A, Bonanza, Cessna 180, Cessna 185. Wheeler Airlines (1960) Limited is Canada's oldest existing air service, having been founded in 1921. The company is primarily engaged in providing charter services in Northern Quebec and the Arctic. The TBM-3 Avengers and Stearman biplanes are used for forest and crop spraying. Wheeler Airlines sold its heavy transport division to Nordair in April, 1960. Head Office: St Jovite Station, Quebec.Canada. Executives: F. H. Wheeler, president; G. Lovett, manager; J. M. Lavery, treasurer. Employees: 40. Fleet: two Otter, four Beaver, four Norseman, one Husky, one Cessna 180, one Super Cub, one Aztec, five TBM-3 Avenger, six Boeing-Stearman A75, two Bell 47G2. Wideroe's Flyveselskap A/S is an old-estab lished company engaged in many forms of air activity including charter flying, air ambulance and air survey work. Wideroe's operated various pioneer air services around the Nor wegian coast before the war, and for several years since the war the company has been operating the north Norway services for SAS. Routes flown in summer are Bodo - Svolvaer -Stokmarknes - Harstad, Bardufoss - Tromso - Alta - Hammerfest - Kirkenes - Vadso, Bodo and Narvik - Harstad - Tromso. Head Office: Oslo, Norway. Executive: V. Wideroe, general manager. Employees: 350. Fleet: four Otter seaplanes and five Norseman seaplanes on scheduled services and one Lockheed 12A, one Seabee, one Douglas B-26 Invader, one Cessna 180. Wien Alaska Airlines Inc operates an exten sive network of passenger, freight and mail services throughout most of Alaska. Opera tions are concentrated in the Fairbanks area with longer routes stretching to Nome in the west and Point Barrow on the north coast. The company has operated under its present title since 1936. Previously it had operated since 1929 as Northern Air Transport; its original operations began in 1924. Wien Alaska intends to buy five Short Skyvan 2 turboprop transports. Head Office: Fairbanks, Alaska. Executives: S. Wien, president; G. B. Rayburn, executive vice-president and treasurer; F. Wien, vice-president operations; A. E. Hagberg, vice- president traffic; R. M. King, secretary; Noel Wien, vice-president public relations. Employees: 237. Fleet: two F-27, five C-46, two DC-3, seven Beech C-18S, two Norseman, one Pilatus PC-6 Porter, one Beaver, eight Cessna 180, two Cessna 185. Wilken Air Services Ltd, formed early in I960, operates charter and taxi services from Nairobi, and also act as Piper agents for Kenya. Head Office: Nairobi, Kenya. Fleet: one Aztec, four Piper Comanche, three Caribbean, one Super Cruiser, one Cessna 180, two Colt. Woods Airways Pry Ltd was founded in 1947 and began scheduled operations in July 1948. The company's only route, of 26 miles, is that between Perth and Rottnest Island. Head Office: Perth, W. Australia. Executives: Capt J. Woods, managing director; G. L. S. Williams, secretary. Fleet: two Anson. 585 World Airways Inc is a certificated US supple mental carrier concentrating on trans-Pacific operations and ballistic missile route support. Head Office: Oakland International Airport, Oakland, California. Executives: E. J. Daly, president; W. R. Boyd, executive vice-president; V. J. Daly, vice-presi dent/treasurer. Fleet: seven DC-6A, four DC-6B, five L.1049H Super Constellation, three DC-4. World Wide Airlines Inc is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier. Head Office: Oakland International Airport, Oakland, California. Executives: William M. Weathers, president; Dorothy Weathers, secretary/treasurer. Fleet: three DC-7. World Wide Airways Inc operates charter flights from Montreal. A twice-weekly freight service between Montreal and points in northern Quebec and Labrador is now oper ated. Four ex-TCA North Stars were acquired in 1961. Head Office: Dorval, Montreal, Canada. Executives: J. G. McVicar, president; L. McVicar, secretary/treasurer; M. Weugh, vice-president. Fleet: four DC-4M North Star, five C-46, three Canso, three DC-3, one Beech D-18, two S-51, three others. World Wide Helicopters Ltd is one of the world's leading charter operators of heli copter's and has for some years operated fixed-wing aircraft. It operates principally for oil companies, undertaking survey work and airlifts in support of oil drilling operations in Papua, Dutch New Guinea, Brunei, Qatar, East Pakistan and Libya. Associated companies include World Wide Helicopters Inc, World Wide Air Services Ltd, World Wide Helicopters—France SA and Safak Equipment Ltd. All these are wholly owned subsidiaries of World Wide Helicopters Ltd. In July 1958 World Wide acquired a 40 per cent interest in Curtiss-Reid Flying Services Ltd of Montreal. Administrative Office: 21 Rue de France, Nice, France. Executives: H. B. Armstrong, board chairman; Knute W. Flint, vice-chairman; Ami L. Sumarlidason, president; W. McP. Christie, secretary; W. R. Wilson, operations manager. Employees: about 110. Fleet: one Sikorsky S.62, three Sikorsky S.58, three Westland-Sikorsky S.55, two Sikorsky S.55, 12 Bell 47, five Beaver, one Twin Bonanza. Yemen Airlines This carrier, which is owned by the Government of the Yemen, undertakes pest control, charter flying and scheduled services. The latter include a daily DC-3 service from Taiz to Aden and services in the Yemen. Flight crews and ground staff are Yemeni and Jugoslavian, except for die Russian equip ment, which is flown and maintained by Russians. Head Office: Taiz, Yemen. Executives: Col Ghaleb Germouzi, general manager. Fleet: three DC-3, two 11-14, four Aero Commander, two Mi-4 helicopters, two Mi-1 helicopters, two Super Cub 150 (for pest control), one J/5G Autocar (for pest control). Zambesi Airways Kariba operates charter flights from Kariba using a Piper Tri-Pacer. Head Office: Kariba, Southern Rhodesia. Fleet: one Tri-Pacer. Zantop Air Transport Inc is a US non-scheduled carrier. Head Office: Wayne County Airport, lnk-ster, Michigan. Executives: D. A. Zantop, H. W. Zantop, partners. Fleet: one DC-6B, two DC-4, one DC-3, 12 C-46. Zone-Redningskorpset is associated with the Danish Red Cross and is primarily an opera tor of air ambulance services, but some charter flying is done. Head Office: Copenhagen. Fleet: one Lockheed 12A, one KZ-IV, one KZ-VII, one KZ-III.
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