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FLIGHT International, 2 April 1964 511 Flight Service Inc, a US taxi operator. Boston,Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and La Guardia are served. Head Office: 680 High Street, Westwood,Massachusetts, USA. Fleet: three Aero Commander 500A, 500B,680F, one Dove, two Comanche. Executive Air Transport Inc, not to be con-fused with the British independent, is a US intrastate and contract carrier.Head Office: Lambert Field, St Louis, Missouri.Fleet: two DC-3. Executive Air Transport Ltd formerly operatedservices linking Birmingham to Leeds/Brad- ford, Newcastle, Bournemouth and Sandownbut the company now leases out its Herons on bare hull charter. Executive Air Engineeringacts as their agents for aircraft hire and as a maintenance base for executive aircraft.Head Office: Coventry Airport, Baginton, Coventry. Executives: G. Roland Dawes, chairman; H. A.L. Dawes, managing director; E. W. Bethell, technical director.Fleet: two Heron 2, two Heron 1. Expreso Aereo Peruano is a Peruvian non-scheduled carrier that operates C-82A Packets. One of these was badly damaged at Satipo onMarch 11, 1962. Fairways Rotterdam (originally known asTransaero Rotterdam) is a Dutch operator that started charter operations in 1961.Charter flights have been undertaken to West Africa and the Mediterranean. A twice-weekly Rotterdam - Southampton scheduled service was commenced in April 1963. Fair-ways has recently been taken over by Martin's Air Charter. Head Office: Rotterdam, Holland.Executive: J. M. Schroder, managing director. Fleet: two DC-3. Fairways Corporation is a US intrastate andcontract carrier. Fleet: one Convair 440, one DC-3. Falcks Flyvetjeneste AB is a subsidiary of aDanish salvage company and began air opera- tions in 1947. In addition to charter andambulance flights 12 regular services a week are flown between Copenhagen and Odense,with Herons. Falcks has now taken over another Danish air ambulance operator,Zone-Redningskorpset, which was associated with the Danish Red Cross.Head Office: Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen, Denmark. Fleet: three Heron 2, one Dove, one AeroCommander 560, one KZ-IV, one Aermac- chi-Lockheed AL-60. On order: one Heron2D. Falkland Islands Government Air Service was formed in November 1948 to provide airtransport, including ambulance and ma'l services, for the Falkland Islands. Two Auster5s were employed initially, and were replaced by Beavers in 1953. Head Office: Port Stanely, Falkland Islands.Fleet: two Beaver floatplanes. Faucett, Compaiiia de Aviacion is one of theoldest South American airlines, having been founded in 1928. The company now flies over5,347 non-duplicated miles of internal routes and it is one of the few airlines which operateaircraft of its own manufacture; 30 Faucett- built Stinsons were produced, six for thePeruvian Government, and four of these seven-passenger monoplanes are still used bythe airline. Faucett took over Cia de Aviacion Peruanas SA from Panagra in 1937. Thecompany's honorary president, E. J. Faucett, was the original founder. A DC-6B acquiredfrom Panagra has been added to the fleet. Head Office: Jiron Union 926, Lima, Peru.Executives: Eduardo Dibos, chairman of the board; A. Bentin, managing director; GeneralArmanda Revoredo, director of operations; F. Anselmo, attorney; Jose M. Rodriguez,general maintenance superintendent. Fleet: one DC-6B, five DC-4, four DC-3,eight C-47B, four Faucett-Stinson F.19. Fecteau Transport Aerien, A.—see A. FecteauTransport Aerien Ltee, page 495. Fenwick Aviation SA operates charter flightsfrom Issy les Moulineaux and Toussus-le- Noble, beside acting as French agents for theAero Commander and Cessna range. Bell and Agusta-Bell helicopters, Lycoming and Con-tinental engines. Overhauls and repairs are also undertaken as well as aerial survey andaerial work. Head Office: 15 Rue Fenelon, Paris.Executives: C. H. de Levis Mirepoix, president; Jean Moine, general manager.Fleet: two Bell 47, Aero Commander 680F, Cessna 320, 310, one Cessna 336 Skymasterand several single-engined Cessnas. Fiji Airways was founded in 1951 by HaroldGatty, who flew round the world in a Lock- heed Vega with Wiley Post in 1931. Regularservices within Fiji were begun in September 1951 using D.H.89s. Services are nowoperated between Nandi, the International Airport, Suva and Savusayu, Lambasa andTaveuni, A Fiji - Tonga service is also operated as well as services to Apia (Samoa) and to theNew Hebrides. Qantas acquired control o Fiji Airways in 1958, but Tasman has nowacquired a 50 per cent interest in the airline, and the Australian and New Zealand Govern-ments have agreed to participate equally in the ownership of Fiji Airways. BOAC has a33 J per cent holding. Fiji Airways has now acquired Korolevu Air Transport and its PiperCaribbean. Head Office: GPO Box 112, Suva, Fiji. Globe Air's Heralds operate IT flights to the Mediterranean and Canaries Executives: Capt R. O. Mant, general man-ager; Capt P. Frame, chief pilot. F'.est: one Drover, four Heron, one PiperCaribbean. Finlantic is the name of a Finnish airline thatstarted charter operations in November 1961 with a DC-6C. Finlantic concentrated on long-haul charters, but it is reported to havegone bankrupt last year. Its DC-6B was returned to Swissair and its DC-6C toHawaiian. Head Office: Erottajankatu 17, Helsinki,Finland. Executives: A. Tulkki, chairman; MarttiPalmujoki, managing director. Employees: 25.Fleet: one DC-6C, one DC-6B. Finnair—Aero O/Y—was founded on Novem-ber 1, 1923 and began operations on March 20, 1924, with a Junkers F. 13 floatplane. JunkersF.13, G.24 and Ju52/3m seaplanes were used exclusively until 1936, when the first airportsto be built in Finland made the use of land- planes possible, and two Rapides wereacquired. Operations continued until the second Russo-Finnish armistice signed in theautumn of 1944 put a stop to flying in Finland, but domestic services were resumed in August1945. International operations were resumed in November 1947 when the Helsinki - Stock-holm route was reopened. Until 1946 Aero O/Y was entirely private-owned, but in 1947the Government acquired a majority holding. In 1956 Finnair became the first non-Com-munist airline to operate direct into Moscow; the Helsinki - Moscow route is flown by Con-vairs. Caravelles were introduced in April 1960 and at present connect Helsinki to Copen-hagen, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam and London.Convair 440s operate to Stockholm, Oslo and Moscow and the domestic network is operatedby 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, four DC-3. On order: six Caravelle 10B (1964-66). Fjellfly is a Norwegian bush operator thatconcentrates on various types of charter services.Head Office: Skien, Norway. Executive: Snorre S. Kjetilson.Fleet: one Twin Pioneer, three Norseman, two Harvard, one Piper Apache, one Cessna 195, one Cessna 185, two Cessna 180, one Tri-Pacer, one Fairchild Cornell, one Piper Cub. Fleming Airways Corp operates non-scheduledand charter flights from the Philippines. Head Office: Manila International Airport,Philippines. Executive: James Fleming, manager. Fleet: DC-3. Flinders Island Airlines (Pty) Ltd was foundedin 1952 to operate regular services between Victoria and Tasmania. Charter work is alsoundertaken. Head Office: Moorabbin Airport, CheltenhamS 22, Victoria, Australia. Executives: A. M. Rea and W. T. Dwyer.Fleet: one Beech E-18S, one Cessna 185A. Flugfelag Islands hf (Icelandair) was foundedin 1937 as Flugfelag Akureyrar and began operation with one Waco biplane on floats.The present company name was adopted in 1940 and the name Icelandair has now replacedthe title Iceland Airways. In 1946 the company began services to Scandinavia and the UnitedKingdom. These were operated by Scottish Aviation for Iceland Airways until 1948 whenthe company introduced its own DC-4 aircraft. DC-3s serve nearly a score of places in Icelandand Viscounts and the DC-6B operate from Reykjavik to Copenhagen, Bergen, Glasgowand Oslo. The DC-4s are also used for ice patrol around Greenland. Seasonal DC-3services to the Faroes were begun last summer. Head Office: Reykjavik, Iceland.Executives: G. Vilhjalmsson, chairman; B. Gislason, vice-chairman; O. O. Johnson, I
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