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FLIGHT International, 2 April 1964 is flown and other services link Beirut withKuwait, Dhahran, Bahrain and Doha. Head Office: PO Box 3018, Beirut, Lebanon.Executives: Munir Abu Haidar, managing director; M. V. Richmond, general manager;H. K. Haddad, company secretary; John W. Sharp, chief engineer; Shafiq Zakhour, salesmanager; Capt J. N. McAuley, chief pilot. Employees: 500. Fleet: one DC-6B, seven DC-4, one PercivalPrentice. On order: one DC-6A. Trans-Meridian Flying Services is a recentlyformed independent registered on October 5, 1962. Trans-Meridian has been engaged incharter work mainly in the Far East during 1963 and intends to carry out some inclusivetour flights this year subject to the necessary licences being granted. It is proposed to lease aDC-6. Head Office: Panshanger Aerodrome, Herts.Executives: Viscount Long of Wraxall, chair- man; A. H. Benson, managing director;Capt M. W. Quinn, commercial manager; Capt A. J. Burridge, chief pilot.Fleet: two DC-4 leased. Trans-Oceanic Lines Ltd is a newly formedcarrier that intends to operate scheduled services from the African mainland to theSeychelle Islands, using two Catalina am- phibians. Three services a week would beflown from Mahe, the largest of the Seychelle Islands, to Nairobi via Port Reitz. Operationshave not yet started. Head Office: Mahe, the Seychelle Islands.Fleet: On order: two Catalina. Transpac—Societe Caledonienne de Trans-portes Aeriens operates services between Noumea and Isle of Pines, Lifu, Houailu,Poindimie, Uvea, Kone, Koumac and Mare. Head Office: Noumea, New Caledonia.Executives: H. G. Martinet, president; H. G. Coursin, manager; J. A. Lafargue, chiefpilot; M. A. Couillaud, chief engineer. Fleet: one D.H.89 Rapide, two Heron I. Transports Aereo Mirleni is an Argentinecarrier that has started non-scheduled opera- tions with an ex-Pan American DC-4.Head Office: Piedras 666, Buenos Aires. Fleet: one DC-4. Transportes Aereos Beni is a Bolivian operator of charter and non-scheduled services that has recently acquired an ex-Austral DC-4. Fleet: one DC-4. Transportes Aereos Buenos Aires SA operatesa network of services radiating southwards from Buenos Aires as far as Necochea.Head Office: Avenida Cordoba 949, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Fleet: four Beech 18, one Cessna T-50, one Cessna 170. Transportes Aereos Catarinense SA—TACoperates mainly coastal routes north from Florianopolis to Rio de Janeiro in conjunctionwith Cruzeiro do Sul, which provides TAC with crews and technical assistance.Head Office: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Executives: Dr J. D. F. Lima, president; G. M.Lins, vice-president/secretary. Fleet: two DC-3 leased from Cruzeiro. Transportes Aereos da Guine Portuguese— TAGP operates internal services withinPortuguese Guinea and an international route from Bissao to Dakar, Ilha do Sal and Praia(Cape Verde Islands). Head Office: Bissao, Portuguese Guinea.Fleet: two Rapide, one Dornier Do 27Q-5, two Cessna 170, one Heron. Transportes Aereos de Cabo Verde was formedto operate services in the Cape Verde Islands. Head Office: Ilha do Sal, Cape Verde Islands.Fleet: three Dove, one D.H.89, one Grum- man Widgeon. Transportes Aereos de Timor—TAT operatesservices between Baucau and Oecusse in Portuguese Timor and Darwin, Australia.Head Office: Dili, Portuguese Timor. Fleet: Friendship (chartered from TAA), twoDove. 533 Trans-Texas Airways Convair 240s fly routes in the southern USA Transportes Aereos Jalisco—TAJ operatestwo DC-3s on charter services within Mexico. Transportes Aereos Nacionales SA—TANAirlines was founded by Honduras private interests in 1947 for the operation of contractcargo flights. The company built up sub- stantial cargo traffic and in 1950 scheduledpassenger and freight operations were begun. There is now a small US private holding in thecompany. TAN's routes now serve Miami, El Salvador, Guatemala and British Honduras,in addition to Honduras. Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Executives: M. Brooks, president; R. Alvarez, secretary; C. W. Shelton, vice-president.Fleet: four C-46. Transportes Aereos Neuquen operates taxi andcharter flights in central Argentina. Head Office: Neuquen, Argentina.Fleet: Aero Commander. Transportes Aereos Orientales—TAO operatesregional services in the Oriente district of Ecuador, and started operations in 1958.Twenty-two centres are served by TAO; 11 by a Ju 52/3m and the rest, with short airstrips,by a Cessna 180 and Norseman. Head Office: Quito, Ecuador.Executive: Capt G. Ruales, manager. Fleet: one Junkers Ju 52/3m, one Cessna 180,one Norseman. Transportes Aereos Portugueses SARL—TAPwas organized in 1944 as a division of the Civil Aviation Department. Its first route, betweenLisbon and Madrid, was opened in September 1946. Services to Angola and Mozambiquewere opened in the following year. A large part of the stock of TAP is now privatelyowned. TAP operates domestic and cabotage services from Lisbon to Oporto, Porto Santoand Santa Maria in the Azores, Bissao, Sao Tom6, Luanda, Beira and Lourenco Marquesand international services to Madrid, Paris, London, Geneva, Frankfurt and Las Palmas.In 1960 TAP and Panair do Brasil, following an agreement signed by the Governments ofPortugal and Brazil, inaugurated "Friendship Flights" between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro,via Ilha do Sal, Recife and Sao Paulo using Panair DC-7Cs. These flights are limited toPortuguese and Brazilian nationals or foreign- ers resident in both countries, and fares arewell below IATA rates. TAP is using its fleet of three Caravelles on all European routes andSuper Constellations on the Oporto and Africa routes. Head Office: 79 Rua Conde de Redondo,Lisbon, Portugal. Executives: Ing. Vaz Pinto, president; M.Barbosa, director general; J. Quinteiro, maintenance director; Dr F. Filipe, financedirector; Cer. Soares, operations director; R. de A velar, head of central planning; C.Ferreira, inspector. Employees: 1,850.Fleet: five L.1049G, three Caravelle 6R. Transportes Aereos Salvador Ltda—TASstarted as a charter operator in 1949 and began scheduled operations within the State of Bahiain 1953. TAS was later absorbed into REAL but continues to operate under its own namelocal services radiating from Salvador. Head Office: 8 Avenida Iona Angelica, Sal-vador, Bahia, Brazil. Fleet: DC-3. Transportes Aereos Terrestres S A—TATS A isa Mexican carrier that operates a daily Ford Trimotor service between Tayoltita and Mazatlan on the Pacific coast of Mexico.Head Office: Avenida Juarez 117, Despacho 505, Mexico, D.F.Fleet: Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor. , Transportes Aeriens du Gabon (Transgabon) began regular operations in 1951 and now links about 20 places in Equatorial Africa with Libreville. Head Office: PO Box 90, three Libreville,Gabon. Executive: J. C. Brouillet, president.Fleet: two Bristol 170, three DC-3, one Rapide, one Beech 18, three Cessna 182, one Cessna185, one Cessna 205. Trans Provincial Air Carriers Ltd is a Canadiancharter operator that also undertakes aerial photography, advertising and survey, pestcontrol and forest fire patrol. Head Office: Box 549, Terrace, BritishColumbia, Canada. Executives: L. M. Johnstone, president; C. E.Reum, vice-president. Fleet: two Beaver. Trans Sierra Airlines is a US intrastate andcontract carrier that operates a DC-3 pur- chased from Mohawk Airlines. Trans-Texas Airways Inc—TTA was foundedin 1940 as Aviation Enterprises and began scheduled operation in October 1947. Theairline now has about 7,500 miles of routes within Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, ArkansasNew Mexico and Mississippi. Ex-American Airlines' Convair 240s are now operatedHead Office: Houston, Texas, USA. Executives: R. E. McKaughan, president-R. E. McKaughan, Jr, executive vice-presi- dent; H. E. Erdmann, senior vice-presidentadvance planning; Max A. King' vice-president traffic and sales; H. H. Farr, treasurer; J. K.Ayer and Ruth Lawrence, assistant secretaries' Employees: 900. Fleet: 15 Convair 240, 23 "maximized "DC-3One order: ten Convair 240. Trans World Airlines—TWA claims itsorigin in Western Air Express, which was founded in 1925 to bid for an air mail routefrom Los Angeles to Salt Lake City. WAE began mail service in 1926. In 1929 Trans-Continental Air Transport, which had inaugur- ated a combined rail/air transcontinental route,obtained control of Maddux Air Lines. At about the same time Western Air Expressabsorbed Standard Air Lines and then on October 1, 1930, TAT-Maddux and WesternAir Express completed a merger to form Trans- continental & Western Air Inc (TWA). In1934, reconstitution followed the Post Office mail-flying upheaval, and TWA became TransWorld Airlines in 1950. TWA has been res- ponsible for sponsoring some fine aircraft,having issued the specification for the Douglas DC-l/DC-2, the Boeing 307 and the Constel-lation. TWA now has more than 50,000 miles of routes stretching from coast to coast of theUSA; across the North Atlantic to Europe, North Africa and Asia as far as Bombay. In1958 the company inaugurated a one-carrier service between California and Florida. In 1959 TWA began non-stop Boeing 707jet services between New York and California, and in November 1959 707 Intercontinentalscommenced services between New York, London and Frankfurt, and also betweenNew York, Paris and Rome, later going as far as Bombay. Convair 880 services began onUS routes on January 12, 1961. Head Office: New York, NY, USA. Continued overleaf
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