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526 The Spanish independent Spantox uses its DC-3s on charter work WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . which seven are convertible for cargo orpassengers (or both). The DC-8Fs and DC-7Cs are used in military and transatlanticgroup charters and military, as well as scheduled air freight. C-46s are used inmilitary and scheduled air freight. Head Office: Box 535, Miami 48, Florida,USA. Executives: James B. Franklin, president;Morten S. Beyer, senior vice-president of operations and sales; Frank C. Hobbs, seniorvice-president finance; C. L. Hood, vice- president marketing; William T. Raymond,corporate secretary; S. C. Humphries, assistant treasurer; L. R. Furlong, director operationsand maintenance. Employees: 520. Fleet:'two DC-8F Jet Trader, 11 DC-7CF, 21 C-46. Robby's Aircraft Co Ltd has been engaged inagricultural and charter operations in South Australia since 1949. Aerial survey, cropspraying, top dressing and air ambulance work is also undertaken.Head Office: Government Aerodrome, Para- field, Adelaide, South Australia.Executives: H. W. Ehmcke, general manager; K. Schultz, charter operations manager;H. Apitz, agricultural operations manager. Fleet: one Dove, three Beaver, one Cessna 180,one Cessna 182, one Auster J/5G Autocar, four Tiger Moth. Rossair (Pty) Ltd is a South African taxi andcharter operator that is a subsidiary of the Ross Transport (Pty) Ltd road haulagecompany. Head Office: PO Box 360, Germiston, Johan-nesburg, South Africa. Fleet: one Cessna 310, one Bonanza. Rotorports Ltd was founded in 1957 to con-struct and operate heliports in the United Kingdom. An associate company, ExecutairLtd, operates charter services primarily for business executives, using a Westland Widgeon.Another associate, Inter-City Airways Ltd, was formed to operate scheduled helicopterservices. Head Office: Kent House, 87 Regent St,London. Executive: Capt J. Crewdson, managingdirector. Fleet: one Widgeon. Roumanian—see TAROM. Royal Air Burundi is the newly formed nat-ional airline of Burundi, which was formerly part of the Belgian protectorate of Ruanda-Urundi, and is now an independent state. Equipment consists of an ex-Las VegasHacienda Constellation, and non-scheduled flights have been made between Usumbura,capital of Burundi, and Europe. Royal Air Burundi is now believed to have ceasedoperations. Fleet: one L-049 Constellation. Royal Air Cambodge opened operations onNovember I, 1956, and is flying services from Pnom-Penh to Siem-Reap, Saigon, Vientiane,Hanoi, Singapore and Canton using DC-3s and DC-4s, and to Hong Kong using AirFrance Boeing 707s. Head Office: PO Box 539, Phom-Penh,Cambodia. Executives: Huot Sam Ath, chairman; JeanFlorent, general manger. Employees: 80.Fleet: DC-3, one DC-4. Royal Air Lao is the recently formed nationalairline of Laos, superseding the former Air Laos Transports Aeriens. There are DC-4services to Bangkok and Saigon, while DC-3s operate domestic services to South Vietnam.Head Office: Immeuble Sisouk Bichphong, Rue du Roi Anou, Vientiane, Laos.Fleet: one DC-4, three DC-3. Royal Air Maroc—Compagnie National? deTransport Aeriens operates services within North Africa and from North Africa toFrance, Spain, Germany, Italy and Switzer- land. Casablanca - Las Palmas and Casablanca- Dakar services are also operated. The airline was formed in July 1953 by the amalgamationof the Casablanca-based Compagnie Cheri- flenne de 1'Air (Air Atlas) and CompagnieCheririenne de Transports Aeriens Air Maroc; the title Royal Air Maroc was taken in Febru-ary 1957. Air Atlas was formed in 1946 and began operations with Junkers Ju52/3ms, whileAir Maroc was founded in 1947 and began scheduled services in 1949.Head Office: Casablanca, Morocco. Executives: M. Laraki, president; A. Faurous,director-general; P. Valent, administrative director; M. Kermoudi, commercial director;M. Delluc, technical director. Fleet: three Caravelle, three L.749 Constella-tion, two DC-3. Royal Nepal Airline Corp Ltd operates in-ternal services from Katmandu to points in Nepal, and also services from Katmandu toDelhi, Patna, Dacca and Calcutta. Head Office: Katmandu, Nepal.Executives: Brig Gen Hem Bahadur Gadtaula, CBE, administrator; Capt G. F. Wood, generalmanager; D. D. Rana, secretary; R. K. Simha. traffic and agency manager; B. K. Dass, chiefaccountant; Capt R. S. Randhawa, operations manager.Fleet: four DC-3. Rudnick Helicopters Ltd operates various typesof charter service in New Zealand. Agricul- tural, aerial crane, search and rescue andforest seeding work is undertaken, also power line stringing. Design and manufacture ofagricultural spray gear for helicopters, also load-carrying gear, forest seeders and grassseeders, is done. Rudnick is also training helicopter pilots for the New Zealand Army.Head Office: Wanganui, North Island, New Zealand. Executives: Miss E. Rudnick, director; J. W.Reid, general manager; A. L. Hubbard, secretary; J. Bevan, chief pilot.Fleet: one Sikorsky S-55, five Bell 47D-1, one Cessna 180. Rutas Aereas Nacionales SA—RANSA was founded as a private company in 1948. Thecompany has CAB authorization to carry passengers, mail and cargo between Venezuelaand Miami via Aruba or Curacao (Netherlands Antilles) and Jamaica, but at present onlycargo services are operated between these countries. A Stratocruiser was acquired in1961 and converted to a freighter and five more have been acquired for freight duties.Head Office: Ediflcio America, Caracas, Venezuela. Executives: C. Nunez, president; E. Pardey,general manager: E. E. Jones, chairman of the board of directors and special US repre-sentative. Fleet: six Stratocruiser, one DC-6A, 12 C-46,three Beaver, three Cessna 180. Rutas Aereas Panamenas SA operates charterand non-scheduled services from Panama. Fleet: three DC-3, one Boeing 247D. Sabena Belgian World Airlines—Society Ano-nyrne Beige d'Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne was founded in 1923 as a successorto SNETA. Sabena developed a European network and later routes to and in the Congo. FUGHT International. 2 April 1964 The airline now has an extensive route networkin Europe, to the Middle East as far as Teheran, to Africa as far as Johannesburg,and from Brussels to Montreal, New York and Mexico City. Sabena is the only operator of internationalhelicopter services. Following helicopter mail operations in Belgium, which started onAugust 21, 1950, the company began passenger services to Holland on September 1, 1953. Sabena commenced Boeing 707 servicesbetween Brussels and Leopoldville on January 19, 1960 and to New York and Johannesburgon January 23 and 25, 1960. Sabena started Caravelle services on February 18, 1961 andthese aircraft are serving cities in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Sabena is amember of the Air Union consortium and has supplied technical and commercial assis-tance and equipment to Air Congo. Head Office: Brussels, Belgium.Executives: G. Perier, chairman; G. Claeys, managing director; W. Deswarte, president;G. Dieu, deputy president; A. Vernieuwe, senior vice-president operations; Roger Nys,secretary-general; F. Pirson, senior vice- president technical.Employees: 10,069. Fleet: six Boeing 707-329, three DC-7C, twoDC-7CF, four DC-6B, eight Caravelle 6, three DC-6, nine Convair 440, one DC-4, 20DC-3, two S-58, one Alouette II, eight Cessna 310. Sadia SA Transposes Aereos was formed in1956 and has third-class services from Sao Paulo to other points in south-east Brazil.There are also DC-3 and C-46 freight services between Rio, Sao Paulo and Concordia. TwoHeralds are on lease from Handley Page. Head Office: 470 Rua Sao Bento, Sao Paulo,Brazil. Fleet: two Herald leased, two C-46, two DC-3. Safari Air Services, until recently known asCampling Bros & Vanderwal, is the largest operator of charter and non-scheduled servicesin British East Africa. The company was taken over in June 1963 by Blackwell Enter-prises Inc of New York. Safari undertakes flying training, maintenance and overhaulwork and acts as agents for Cessna aircraft, while Safari's subsidiary, Caspair, operatesscheduled services. Head Office: PO Box 1951, Nairobi, Kenya.Employees: 117. Fleet: two Macchi MB.32O, one Aero Com-mander 500A, one Aero Commander 680S, one Bonanza, one Cub Special, two Cub, sevenCessna 182, one Cessna 172, four Cessna 150, four Cessna 210, one Cessna 205, one Pacer. Samoan Air Lines operates seven flights aweek between Apia and Pago Pago (US Samoa) in competition with Polynesian Air-lines. Scheduled operations began on July 14, 1959. It is believed that Hawaiian Airlineshave provided technical assistance and equipment to Samoan.Fleet: DC-3. San Francisco & Oakland Helicopter Airlines is a US helicopter operator formed in 1961 by agroup of former Los Angeles Airways per- sonnel. SFO began services on June 1, 1961between the airports and downtown heliports in San Francisco and Oakland; flights toBerkeley are also operated. SFO is operating on a non-subsidy basis, and is the first heli-copter operator to have an all-turbine powered fleet. Two Sikorsky S-62s have been acquiredon a lease purchase agreement with the manu- facturers; a third was delivered in 1962. SFOis negotiating for a fourth S-62. Head Office: San Francisco InternationalAirport, San Francisco 28, California. Executives: M. F. Bagan, president; B. F.DeHaas, vice-president operations; J. J. Cunningham, vice-president services; RogerHall, vice-president sales. Employees: 55.Fleet: three S-62. On order: one S-62. Saskair, formerly known as SaskatchewanGovernment Airways, was founded in 1947 by the Provincial Government taking over the M.& C. Aviation Co to operate services in North Saskatchewan from Prince Albert. Charterflying for prospectors and hunting and fishing parties is also undertaken. All aircraft except
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