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1964
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512 FLIGHT International, 2 April 1964 IAC has three Caravelles on order; the first has recently entered service on Indian domestic routes WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . general manager; J. R. Snorrason, chief pilot.Employees: 291. Fleet: one Viscount 759, one DC-6B, twoDC-4, three DC-3. Flying Enterprise A/S is a Danish charteroperator formed on May 29, 1959 that began operations on January 23, 1960. OverseasAviation (CI) Ltd provided technical assistance and equipment initially, but the company isno longer associated with Overseas. Three DC-7s were acquired last autumn, and theseare to be operated in a 104-passenger con- figuration. Head Office: Hangar 117, Copenhagen Air-port, Denmark. Executive: Hans Linde, managing director.Employees: 175. Fleet: three DC-7 (one leased to SchreinerAero Contractors NV), three Argonaut. The Flying Tiger Line Inc was founded inJune 1945 as the National Skyway Freight Corporation and started operations with BuddRB-1 Conestogas; these were soon succeeded by DC-4s, and the company took its presentname in 1946. It was organized as the first all-cargo airline in the USA. Flying Tiger hasdone 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 Manilavia Wake Island and Honolulu. A consider- able amount of group charter traffic is alsoflown across the Atlantic. In addition to non- scheduled operations Flying Tiger conductscoast-to-coast scheduled freight services over US Airfreight Route No 100, betweenBoston, Hartfield/Springfield and New York to Chicago, Los Angeles and San Franciscoalso calling at Binghampton, Cleveland and Detroit with connecting services from SanFrancisco 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: 12 L.1049H, ten Canadair CL-44D-4. Foothills Aviation undertakes helicopter charterwork in western and northern Canada. Head Office: McCall Field, Calgary, Alberta,Canada. Executives: S. W. Armstrong, president; W.H. Ripley, secretary/treasurer; R. F. Sturgeon, vice-president and general manager.Fleet: four Bell 47G-2, one Bell 47G-3. Foshing Airlines operates internal serviceswithin Formosa. There are daily flights from Taipei to Hualien, Taitung, Taichung andKeahsiung. Head Office: Taipei, Taiwan.Executives: M. F. Chin, chairman; Ango Tai, managing director; H. Toy, vice-presidenttraffic/sales; W. Tsiang, secretary. Fleet: one Catalina, two C-47, one C-46, twoBeech 18, one Pilatus Turbo-Porter. Fred Olsen Airtransport Ltd is a subsidiary ofthe Fred Olsen shipping company. No scheduled services are operated except forfreight 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, one of the largest local ser-vice airlines in the USA, serves^61 communities in the 11 western states of Arizona, Colorado,Montana, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Utahand Wyoming. Its route network now covers 6,600 miles, and in 1959 five Convair 340sacquired from United were put into service. The Gold-Field Corporation of San Franciscohas purchased a controlling interest in the air- line. Four Convair 340s are to be re-enginedwith Allison 5O1-D13 turboprops; as such they will be designated Convair 580s.Head Office: 5900 East 39th Avenue, Denver, Colorado, USA. Executives: Lewis W. Dymond, president andmember of the board; W. J. Mitchell, vice- president sales and service; M. Edward O'Neil,vice-president operations and maintenance; W. M. Groody, treasurer; R. A. Fitzgerald,vice-president, legal and secretary. Employees: 1,275.Fleet: 14 Convair 340, 21 DC-3. Fuji Airlines operates internal services inJapan. There is a daily Convair 240 service from Tokyo to Kagoshima via Qita andfrequent services from Kagashima to Nishino - Ornate, Nakatame and Yakushima. Thereare also taxi and charter flights. Fuji, North Japan Airlines and Nitto Aviation were due tomerge on April 1. Head Office: Nishitani Building, 5-12 ShibaTamura-cho, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Executives: Kisaku Matsushima, president;Toshihiko Kubota, managing director. Employees: 150.Fleet: two Convair 240, one Heron, one Beech C-18S, one Apache, one Sikorsky S-62,two Kawasaki-Bell 47G-2. On order: one Vertol 107. Fuji Air Transport (not to be confused withFuji Airlines) operates helicopter charter services in Japan. No recent news of thiscarrier is available. 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. Fujita Airlines operated charter and taxiservices within Japan and used its Friendships for scheduled services from Tokyo. The air-line, which originally was known as Japan Air Services, was a member of the Fujita Groupwhich runs hotels, restaurants and other facilities at major health and holiday resortsin Japan. Fujita was due to merge with All Nippon in November 1963 together withNaka Japan Airlines and Toa Airways. Head Office: Sanfuka Building No 5, 4-chome,Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. Executives: I. Yamashita, president; EiichiOgawa, managing director; Chuijiro Nakano, operations manager. Fleet: one Friendship 200, three Heron, oneDove, three Cessna 172, three Cessna 170B. On order: one Friendship 200. Futura Airlines was formed in 1962 as anintrastate airline operating around Cali- fornia's Lake Tahoe resort area. Serviceswere planned with ex-TWA Constellations from Los Angeles, Bakersficld, Fresno,Sacramento, San Jose and Oakland to Lake Tahoe airport, but it is not certain if Futura isstill operating. Executives: Michael E. Kilfoyle, president; Bob Masterson, director of operations. Fleet: five L.049 Constellation. Gagnon Air Service Ltd operate charterservices, primarily within the province of Quebec. Head Office: C.P.341, Chicoutimi, Quebec,Canada. Executives: Adrien Gagnon, president; AndreGagnon, manager. Fleet: one Norseman, two Beaver, two Cessna180. Garuda Indonesian Airways is the State-ownedIndonesian airline, which had been formed by the Government and KLM as successor toKLM's post-war operations in the area and thfe pre-war KNILM. Nationalization tookplace in 1954 when KLM's shares were bought up. Services are operated within and betweenthe islands of the republic and to Bangkok, Manila, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Many coachservices 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 Guineaand its Beavers and Twin Pioneers. Head Office: 15 Djalan Nusantara, Djakarta.Executives: Capt P. Parwitakoesoemo, 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: two Convair 990A, three Electra, threeConvair 440, 20 DC-3, eight Convair 340, six Convair 240, three Beaver, three Twin Pioneer.On order: one Convair 990A. Georgian Bay Airways Ltd was founded in1946 to conduct charter flying in Ontario. The company concentrates on the carriage ofhunting and fishing parties and also operates three flying schools. Aerial survey, pest con-trol and timber patrol activities are also under- taken. Head Office: Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada,Executives: F. Powell, president; T. Mitchell, secretary.FIeet.\one Otter, two Beaver, two Norseman, six Cessna 180, three Super Cub, one Colt.On order: two Found FBA-2C. Ghana Airways was formed in 1958 to takeover the former Ghana operations of West African Airways, and began these operationson October 1 of that year. The company oper- ates DC-3s and Viscounts on regional andinternal services, and operates Convair 99OAs leased from Swissair on the Accra - Londonservice non-stop; there is also an Accra - Rome - Zurich - London Britannia service. GhanaAirways was jointly owned by BOAC and by the Ghana Government, but the latter hasnow bought BOAC's 40 per cent holding. The Il-18s and An-12 were bought from the £14.3mRussian credit extended to Ghana in August 1960; Russia is accepting Ghanaian producesuch as cocoa in payment for the aircraft, which are flown and maintained by Russiancrews. II-18s currently operate Accra - Kano- Khartoum - Addis Ababa and Accra - Kano -Cairo - Beirut services as well as a service to Algiers via Ouagadougou, Bamako and Rabat.Head Office: Ghana House, PO Box 1636, Accra. Executives: Dr E. Ayeh-Kumi, chairman; V.K. Akakpo, managing director; Dr M. Junger, secretary/treasurer; Capt M. Lindholm, opera-tions manager; J. G. Williams, chief engineer. Fleet: four DC-3, three Viscount 838, four11-18, one Britannia 309. On order: three VC10 (1964). Gibraltar Airways Ltd—Gibair—started opera-tions 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 operatedto Tangier for two months, but the service was suspended as uneconomic. The companywas dormant until 1947, when it recommenced operations as a BEA subsidiary, with BEAholding 51 per cent of the stock and M. H. Bland & Co Ltd the remainder. M. H. Blandnow 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-tained by D.H. Rapides. In October 1953 an agreement was concluded whereby BEAundertakes all flying operations. Gibraltar Airways now operates only between Gibraltarand Tangier, using a Pionair DC-3. Head Office: Cloister Building, Gibraltar.Executives: Sir George Gaggero, chairman; Continued on page 513
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