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FLIGHT International, 11 April 1963 515 were later withdrawn, but Black Isle continued 10 operate charter services. The company has leased aircraft from Capital Services Aero) Ltd of Renfrew. Head Office: Transport House, Beauly, Inverness. Fleet: one Piper Aztec, one Apache, one Colt, one Tri-Pacer. Hlatz Airlines Inc is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier that began operations in 1947. Last October the CAB rejected its application for interim operating authority, and the future of Blatz is subject to appeal action. Head Office: Lockheed Air Terminal, Bur- bank, California. Executives: F. A. Blatz, president; R. K. Blatz, secretary/treasurer. Fleet: six DC-3. 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. A. Fraser, president; G. Wil liamson, general manager. Employees: 11. Fleet: three Goose. BOAC-Cunard Ltd was formed last June to take over the western hemisphere operations of Cunard Eagle Airways Ltd and its Ber- mudan and Bahaman subsidiaries. Initial share capital is £30m, of which BOAC holds 70 per cent and Cunard Steam-Ship 30 per cent. BOAC-Cunard has no staff and BOAC leases its aircraft and then sells back flying hours. Sales, accountancy and flying is done by BOAC on a recharge basis. A twice-weekly London - Bermuda - Nassau - Miami 707 ser vice is operated under BOAC-Cunard auspices, and also four Viscount services a day between Nassau and Miami. Executives: Sir Matthew Slattery, chairman; Sir Basil Smallpeice, managing director; Keith Granville, G. H. C. Lee, Ross Stainton, Sir John Brocklebank, R. F. Taylor, directors. Fleet: twelve Boeing 707. 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 US certificated carrier to operate an all- turbine fleet. In 1961 Bonanza rose from 10th place to 2nd place in passenger load factor among the 13 local service airlines, and in 1962 achieved 1st place. Package tours are offered, notably to the Grand Canyon area. Bonanza now offers a variety of 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 $90 for a two- week period or $160 for a four-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; L. Decker, vice-president traffic and sales; John D. Lindsay, vice-president advertising and pub licity; Arthur M. Taylor, general counsel and secretary. Employees: 600. Fleet: 11 Fairchild 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 terri tories in Borneo, with Labuan as a base. Head Office: Labuan, British North Borneo. Executives: D. E. M. Fiennes, chairman: Capt T. M. Robertson, manager; Capt R. H. Nicholls, chief pilot; Richard C. C. Chao. commercial superintendent; R. A. Williams, secretary/accountant. Employees: 160. Fleet: DC-3, three Twin Pioneer. Bournemouth Air Taxi Ltd was registered on November 8, 1961 and undertakes flying train ing and charter work, and also consultancy services. The company are contractors to the Air Ministry. Head Office: Hum Airport, Christchurch, Hampshire. Executives: L. L. Murry, managing director; Fl Lt V. Bernard, chief pilot and operations manager; P. R. Ford, general manager. Employees: 8. Fleet: one Rapide, two Cessna 172, one Auster Autocar. 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-Cathay Pacific DC-6B was acquired in 1962. Head Office: Oslo, Norway. Executives: L. G. Braathen, president; B. G. Braathen, vice-president; E. Froysaa, commer cial manager; J. Rad, operations manager. Emplovees: 500. Fleet:'one. DC-6B, one DC-6A/B, one DC-4, one DC-3, five F.27. On order: two F.27. Bradley Air Services Ltd operates non-sched uled and charter services, mostly in Ontario, and including pest control work, aerial advertising, 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. BranifT 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 with PanAm provides 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 financial services; R. H. Burck. vice-president traffic and sales; D. Hughes, vice-president operations; O. W. Crane, treasurer; Jay M. Jackson, secretary and legal counsel. Employees: 5,498. Fleet: four Boeing 707-227, four Boeing 720-027, nine Electra, five DC-7C. one DC-6A, ten DC-6, 19 Convair 340/440, two C-46 freighters. On order: 12 BAC One- Eleven (1964-65). Brasil Organizacao Aerea SA operates taxi and charter services in the Parana province of Brazil. Head Office: Rue Presidente Faria 37, Curi- tiba, Brazil. Executives: J. Scheffer, president; Dr Fer nando Piske, commercial director. Fleet: six Cessna 170, three Cessna 175, two Cessna 172, four Cessna Sky lane. British European Airways Corporation BEA was incorporated as a State corporation in August 1946 (at the same time as BOAC and BSAA were constituted) for the task of re building British services to Europe and the UK domestic services that lapsed with the out break of war in 1939. Since its foundation BEA has become the biggest operator of air services in Europe, operating by 1961 more than a quarter of total BKS operates the Avro 748 on London - Leeds / Bradford services
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