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FLIGHT International. 11 April 1963 525 Helsinki to Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Stock holm, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and London. Convair 440s operate to Stock holm, Oslo and Moscow and the domestic network is operated by DC-3s and Convair 440s. Head Office: Toolonkatu, 4, Helsinki, Finland. Executives: G. Korhonen, president; B. Aulin, vice-president technical; M. Mannio, vice- president traffic and sales; K. Temmes, vice- president operations. Employees: 1,413. Fleet: four Caravelle, three Convair 340/440, four Convair 440, five DC-3. On order: six Caravelle 10B (1964-66). Fjellfly is a Norwegian bush operator that concentrates on various types of charter services. Head Office: Skien, Norway. Executive: Snorre S. Kjetilson. Fleet: two Norseman, two Harvard, one Piper Apache, one Cessna 195, one Cessna 185, two Cessna 180, one Tri-Pacer, one Fairchild Cornell, one Piper Cub. Flinders Island Airlines (Pty) Ltd was founded in 1952 to operate regular services between Victoria and Tasmania. Charter work is also undertaken. Head Office: Moorabbin Airport Cheltenham S 22, Victoria, Australia. Executives: A. M. Rea and W. T. Dwyer. Fleet: one Beech E-18S, one Cessna 185A. Flugfelag Islands hf (Icelandair) was founded in 1937 as Flugf61ag Akureyrar and began operation with one Waco biplane on floats. The present company name was adopted in 1940 and the name Icelandair has now replaced the title Iceland Airways. In 1946 the company began services to Scandinavia and the United Kingdom. These were operated by Scottish Aviation for Iceland Airways until 1948 when the company introduced its own DC-4 aircraft. DC-3s and flying-boats serve nearly a score of places in Iceland and Viscounts operate from Reykjavik to Copenhagen, Bergen, Glasgow and Oslo. The DC-4s are also used for ice patrol around Greenland. Head Office: Reykjavik, Iceland. Executives: G. Vilhjalmsson, chairman: B. Gislason, vice-chairman; O. O. Johnson, general manager; J. R. Snorrason, chief pilot. Employees: 285. Fleet: two Viscount 759, one DC-6B, three DC-4, three DC-3. Flying Enterprise A/S is a Danish charter operator formed on May 29, 1959 that began operations on January 23, 1960. Overseas Aviation (CI) Ltd provided technical assist ance and equipment initially, but the company is no longer associated with Overseas. Head Office: Hangar 117, Copenhagen Airport, Denmark. Executive: Hans Linde, managing director. Employees: 175. Fleet: four Argonaut. The Flying Tiger Line Inc was founded in June 1945 as the National Skyway Freight Corporation and started operations with Budd RB-1 Conestogas; these were soon succeeded by DC-4s, and the company took its present name in 1946. It was organized as tne first all-cargo airline in the USA. Flying Tiger has done a great deal of contract charter flying across the Atlantic and Pacific for MATS, and its L.1049Hs and CL-44s fly from San Francisco to Tokyo, Okinawa and Manila via Wake Island and Honolulu. A consider able amount of group charter traffic is also flown across the Atlantic. In addition to non- scheduled operations Flying Tiger conducts coast-to-coast scheduled freight services over US Airfreight Route No 100, between Boston, Hartfield/Springfield and New York to Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco also calling at Binghampton, Cleveland and Detroit with connecting services from San Francisco to Portland and Seattle. Head Office: Lockheed Air Terminal, Bur- bank, California, USA. Executives: R. W. Prescott, president; F. Beninger, executive vice-president/treasurer; F. B. Lynett, executive vice-president opera tions. Employees: 990. Fleet: eight L.1049H, ten Canadair CL-44D-4. On order: two DC-8F Jet Trader (1964). Foothills Aviation Ltd undertakes charter work and survey flights and maintenance work, besides acting as a Cessna distributor. Head Office: McCall Field, Calgarv, Alberta, Canada. Executives: S. W. Armstrong, president; W. H. Ripley, vice-president. Employees: 35. Fleet: six Bell 47G-2, one Bell 47G-3, three Cessna 180, one Cessna 210, one Cessna sky- hawk, one Beech D-18S, one PA-18 Super Cub. Foshing Airlines operates internal services within Formosa. There are dailv flights from Taipei to Hualien, Taitung and Keahsiung. Head Office: Taipei, Taiwan. Executives: M. F. Chin, chairman; Ango Tai managing director; H. Toy, vice-president traffic/sales; W. Tsiang, secretary. Fleet: one Catalina, two C-47, one C-46 two Beech 18. Fred Olsen Airtransport Ltd is a subsidiary of the Fred Olsen shipping company. No scheduled services are operated except for freight services undertaken for SAS. Head Office: Fornebu Airport, Oslo, Norway. Executive: Cdr R. Rynning, vice-president. Employees: 45. Fleet: three C-46R freighters. Frontier Airlines Inc, one of the largest local service airlines in the USA, serves 62 communi ties in the 10 western states of Arizona, Col orado, Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. Its route network now covers 6,500 miles, and in 1959 five Convair 340s acquired from United were put into service. The Goldfield Corporation of San Francisco has purchased a controlling interest in the airline. Head Office: Stapleton Airfield, Denver, Colorado, USA. Executives: Lewis W. Dymond, president and member of the board; C. M. Britt, vice- president sales and service; M. Edward O'Neil, vice-president operations and mainten ance; W. M. Groody, treasurer; R. A. Fitzgerald, secretary and general counsel. Employees: 1,080. Fleet: ten Convair 340, 22 DC-3. Fuji Air Transport Co Ltd (not to be confused with Fuji Airlines) operates helicopter charter services in Japan. Head Office: Tokyo, Japan. Executives: M. Horiuchi, president; K. Tanaka, managing director. Fleet: one Vertol 44. On order: two Vertol 107, one Cessna, one Bell 47G-2. Fuji Airlines Co operates internal services in Japan. There is a daily Convair 240 service from Tokyo to Kagoshima via Takamatsu and Ohita and a seasonal Convair service from April to October every day from Tokyo to Sadoshima. There are also non-scheduled flights between Niigata and Sadoshima, Kagoshima and Tanegashima. Head Office: Tokyo, Japan. Executives: Kisaku Matsushima, president; Toshihiko Kubota, managing director. Employees: 150. Fleet: three Convair 240, one Heron, one Beech C-18S, one Apache, one Sikorsky S-62, two Bell 47G-2. On order: one Vertol 107. Fujita Airlines Co Ltd operates charter and taxi services within Japan and will use its Friendships for scheduled services from Tokyo. The airline is a member of the Fujita Group which runs hotels, restaurants and other facilities at major health and holiday resorts in Japan. Head Office: Sanfuku Building No 5, 4-chome, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Executives: I. Yamashita, president; Eiichi Ogawa, managing director; Chujiro Nakano, operations manager. Fleet: one Friendship 200, two Heron, two Dove, one Cessna 172, five Cessna 170B. On order: one Friendship 200. Fntura Airlines was formed in 1962 as an instrastate airline operating around Cali fornia's Lake Tahoe resort area. Services are planned with ex-TWA Constellations from Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento, San Jose and Oakland to Lake Tahoe airport. Head Office: Oakland, California. Executives: Michael E. Kilfoyle, president; Bob Masterson, director of operations. Fleet: six L.049 Constellation. Gagnon Air Service Ltd operate charter services, primarily within the province of Quebec. Head Office: Kenogami, Quebec, Canada. Executives: Adrien Gagnon, president; Andre Gagnon, manager. Fleet: three Norseman, two Beaver, two Cessna 180. Garuda Indonesian Airways NV—GIA is the State-owned Indonesian airline, which had been formed by the Government and KLM as successor to KLM's post-war operations in the area and the pre-war KNILM. National ization took place in 1954 when KLM's shares were bought up. Services are operated within and between the islands of the republic and to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Many coach services are operated, and Electra services began in the summer of 1961. On January 1, 1963 Garuda took over de Kroonduif's domestic operations in West New Guinea and its Beavers and Twin Pioneers. Head Office: 15 Djalan Nusantara, Djakarta, Indonesia. Executives: Capt P. Parwitnkoesoemo, presi dent; Dr R. Sugoto, vice-president; Dr C. A. Mochtar, vice-president; Capt Soedarmo. director of operations; Dr S. A. Boerhanoedin, commercial director. Fleet: three Electra, three Convair 440, 20 DC-3, eight Convair 340, seven Convair 240, four Beaver, three Twin Pioneer. On order: three Convair 990A. Georgian Bay Airways Ltd was founded in 1946 to conduct charter flying in Ontario. The company concentrates on the carriage of hunt ing and fishing parties and also operates a flying school. Head Office: Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. Executives: F. Powell, president; T. Mitchell, secretary. Fleet: three Norseman, five Cessna 180, two Aeroncas, one Beechcraft, one Super Cub, one Colt. On order: two Found F8A-2C. Ghana Airways Ltd was formed in 1958 to take over the former Ghana operations of West African Airways, and began these operations on October 1 of that year. The company oper ates DC-3s and Viscounts on regional and internal services, and operates Britannias on the Accra - London service non-stop; there is also an Accra - Rome - Zurich service. Ghana Airways was jointly owned by BOAC and by the Ghana Government, but the latter has now bought BOAC's 40 per cent holding. The II-18s and An-12 were bought from the £14.3m Russian credit extended to Ghana in August I960; Russia is accepting Ghanaian produce such as cocoa in payment for the air craft, which are flown and maintained by Russian crews. Il-18s currently operate Accra - Kano - Khartoum - Asmara - Aden and Accra - Cairo - Beirut services. An 11-18 service to Moscow via Bamako, Tunis, Zurich and Warsaw is also operated. Head Office: Ghana House. PO Box 1636, Accra. Executives: J. Mercer, chairman; Capt P. Wood, general manager; L. C. Giles, deputy general manager; J. Williams, chief engineer; Capt Gavin-Robinson, chief pilot. Fleet: four DC-3, two Heron, three. Viscount 838, one Antonov An-12 Ukraina, eight 11-18, two Britannia 309/319B. On order: three VC10 (1963-64). Gibraltar Airways Ltd started operations at the end of 1930, when the chairman of the Bland Line, Mr (later Sir) George Gaggero, formed it as an offshoot of M. H. Bland & Co Ltd. A Saro Windhover flying-boat operated to Tangier for two months, but the service was suspended as uneconomic. The company was dormant until 1947, when it recommenced operations as a BEA subsidiary, with BEA holding 51 per cent of the stock and M. H. Bland & Co Ltd the remainder. M. H. Bland now holds a majority 51 per cent interest, BEA retaining a 49 per cent holding. Opera tions between Gibraltar and Tangier and later to Spain and Spanish Morocco were main-
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