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1964
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Wien Alaska employ two Fairchild f"-27Bs on services within Alaska WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Western Airlines Inc—WAL claims to be theUnited States' oldest airline, having been founded in 1925 as Western Air Express. Thepresent name was legally adopted on March 11, 1941. WAL now operates 9,474 miles ofroutes in the Western and mid-West states, flying as far east as Minneapolis/St Paul,northwards across the Canadian border to Calgary and southwards to Mexico City."Thriftair" services linking Los Angeles with San Francisco and Las Vegas using 92-passenger DC-6Bs were introduced in 1962 and 1963 respectively. Western may order tenBAC One-Elevens or Douglas DC-9s. Head Office: 6060 Avion Drive, Los Angeles,California, USA. Executives: T. C. Drinkwater, president; D. P.Renda, vice-president legal/secretary; J. J. Taylor, vice-president treasurer; R. S. Shatto,vice-president operations; M. W. Landes, vice-president service; A. F. Kelly, vice-presi-dent sales. Employees: 3,513. Fleet: ten Boeing 720-047B, 12 Electra, 14DC-6B. On order: three Boeing 720-047B. Western Alaskan Airlines Inc operates servicesradiating from Dillingham and King Salmon, south-west Alaska, many of which used to beoperated by Pacific Northern Airlines. Head Office: Dillingham, Alaska.Executives: Albert W. Bell, president; Myron Moran, vice-president; Clarence Wren, secre-tary/treasurer. Fleet: Grumman Goose, Lockheed L-12A,Bonanza, Cessna 180, Cessna 185. Wheeler Airlines is Canada's oldest existingair service, having been founded in 1921. The company is primarily engaged in providingcharter services in Northern Quebec and the Arctic. The TBM-3 Avengers and Stearmanbiplanes are used for forest and crop spraying. Wheeler Airlines sold its heavy transportdivision to Nordair in April 1960. Fish culti- vation and ice reconnaissance is also under-taken. Head Office: St Jovite Station, Quebec,Canada. Executives: F. H. Wheeler, president; G.Lovett, manager; J. M. Lavery, treasurer. Employees: 40.Fleet: five PBY-5A Catalina, two Otter, four Beaver, four Norseman, one Husky, oneCessna 180, two Super Cub, one Aztec, five TBM-3 Avenger, five Boeing-Stearman A75,two Bell 47G2. Wideree's Flyveselskap A/S is an old-estab-lished company engaged in many forms of air activity including charter flying, air ambulanceand air survey work. Widerwe's operated various pioneer air services around theNorwegain coast before the war, and for several years since the war the company hasbeen operating the North Norway services in cooperation with SAS. Two Nord 260sleased from the manufacturers have been operated over these routes and on charterflights to England. Head Office: Oslo, Norway.Executive: V. Wider0e, general manager. Employees: 330. Fleet: two Nord 260, two DC-3, three Otterseaplanes, five Norseman seaplanes, one Cessna 320, one Cessna 185. On option: twoNord 262. Wien Alaska Airlines Inc, operates an extensivenetwork of passenger, freight and mail services throughout most of Alaska. Operations areconcentrated in the Fairbanks area with longer routes stretching to Nome in the west, Point Barrow on the north coast, and White-horse (Yukon Territory) (Canada) and Juneau, Alaska to the east and south-east.The company has operated under its present title since 1936. Previously it had operatedsince 1929 as Northern Air Transport; its original operations began in 1924. WienAlaska may buy Short Turbo Skyvan turbo- prop transports. Head Office: PO Box 690, Fairbanks, Alaska.Executives: S. Wien, president; G. B. Ray- burn, exec, vice-president and treasurer; F.Wien, vice-president of ground operations; A. E.rfagberg, vice-president of traffic; R. M.King, manager flight operations and secretary; L. £. Parsons, chief engineer; Noel Wien,vice-president of public relations. Employees: 333. Fleet: one DC-4, two Fairchild F-27, two DC-3,hve C-46, one C-82A Packet, four Beech C-18S, five Weaver, one Pilatus PC-6 Porter,one Turbo-Porter, bve Cessna ISO, nine Cessna 185. on order: two Turbo-Porter. Wilken Air Services, formed early in I960,operates charter and taxi services from Nairobi, and also act as Piper agents.Head Office: Nairobi, Kenya. Fleet: one Aztec, four Piper Comanche, oneTn-Pacer, one Super Cruiser, one Cruiser, three Cherokee 180, three Cessna 180, threeColt, one Cub. Windward Islands Airways operates localservices in the i^esser Antilles group of West Indian islands. St Maarten, St Jiarths, StKitts, St fcustatius, Saba, St Thomas, St Croix, Antigua, Anguilia and Guadeloupe are theislands served, as well as Puerto Kico. Head Office: Princess Juliana Airport, StMaarten, Netherlands Antilles. Fleet: one Dornier Do 28. World Airways is a certificatea US supple-mental carrier concentrating on trans-Pacilic operations and US domestic charters.Head Office: Oakland International Airport, Oakland, California. Executives: t. J. Daly, president; D. P. Larsen,vice-president and airector of operations; Brian A. Cooke, vice-president/treasurer.Employees: 325. Fleet: three Boeing 707-320C, eight DC-6A/B,four L.1649A, seven L.1049H Super Constel- lation (leased). World Wide Airways operates charter flightsfrom Montreal. A twice-weekly freight service from Montreal and points in northern Quebecand Labrador is now operated. Ex-TCA North Stars were acquired in 1961. TheLancaster is used to carry fuel to Arctic outposts. Head Office: Dorval, Montreal, Canada.Executives: D. M. McVicar, president; L. McVicar, secretary/treasurer.Fleet: three DC-4M North Star, one DC-4, one Lancaster tanker, eight C-46, threeCanso, one DC 3, one Beech D-18, one S-51, three others. World Wide Aviation Ltd, not to be confusedwith operators at Burbank and Dorval with similar names, is a British independent formedin July 1960. Operations, mainly long-range charters, started in December of that year anda DC-4 was leased to Sabena in January 1961 for United Nations charter work in theCongo. The operations and engineering base was at Gatwick. World Wide's E licence wasrevoked by the ATLB in 1962 and the company is no longer operating. Negotiationsare at present proceeding regarding recapital- ization and World Wide hopes to recommenceoperations in late 1964-65. FLIGHT International. 2 April 1964 Head Office: Prince Consort Drive, Ascot, Berks.Executives: Capt W. J. Bright, F. S. Seary, directors. World Wide Helicopters is one of the world'sleading charter operators of helicopters and has for some years operated fixed-wing air-craft. It operates principally for oil companies, undertaking survey work and airlifts in supportof oil drilling operations. Associated companies include World WideHelicopters Inc, World Wide Air Services Ltd, World Wide Helicopters—France SAand Safak Equipment Ltd. All these are wholly owned subsidiaries of World WideHelicopters Ltd. In July 1958 World Wide acquired a 40 per cent interest in Curtiss-Reid Flying Services Ltd of Montreal. A base is now maintained at Biggin Hill.Administrative Office: 21 Rue de France, Nice, France. Executives: H. B. Armstrong, board chairman;Knute W. Flint, vice-chairman; Ami L. Sumarlidason, president; W. McP. Christie,secretary; W. R. Wilson, operations manager. Fleet: two Sikorsky S.62, three SikorskyS.58, three Westland-Sikorsky S.55, two Sikorsky S.55, 17 Bell 47, one Aero Com-mander 680, one Beech 18, five Beaver, one Twin Bonanza, one Cherokee 160. Yemen Airlines. This carrier, which is ownedby the Government of the Yemen undertakes pest control, charter flying and scheduledservices. The latter include DC-3 services from Taiz and Asmara (Eritrea) to Aden andservices in the Yemen. Flight crews and ground staff are Yemeni and Jugoslavian,except for the Russian equipment which is flown and maintained by Russians.Head Office: Taiz, Yemen. Executives: Col Ghaleb Germouzi, generalmanager. Fleet: four DC-3, two 11-14, four AeroCommander, two Mi-4 helicopters, two Mi-1 helicopters, two Super Cub 150 (for pestcontrol), one J/5G Autocar (for pest control). Yorkton Flying Services undertakes charterwork, timber patrol, pest control, recreational flying and the operation of a flying school.head Office: PO Box 782, Yorkton, Sas- katchewan, Canada. Fleet: one Piper Super Cruiser, three Taylor-craft BC-12D, two Piper PA-22, two Cessna 140, one Fleet Canuck, two Cub. Youngstown Airways Inc is a US air taxioperator and Beechcraft distributor who has ordered 15 Aero Jet Commanders for leasingout to business houses, together with crews. Head Office: Youngstown Municipal Airport,Youngstown, Ohio. Executive: Forest Beckett, president.Fleet: Beech Travel Air, Twin Bonanza, Beech 18. On order: 15 Aero Jet Commander. Zambia Airways is the new Northern Rhode-sian national airline formed as a subsidiary of Central African Airways Corporation afterthe break-up of the Federation of Rhodesia- Nyasaland in 1963. Zambia's chairman andboard will be appointed by the parent CAA. DC-3s and Beavers will be used, chiefly ondomestic routes, and the DC-3s will be leased back for operation by CAA, who will providetechnical assistance and staff. Fleet: DC-3, Beaver. Zantop Air Transport Inc is a US supplementalcarrier that flies Logair services with Argosies for the US Air Force Logistics Command.Zantop also does a good deal of contract charter business for Ford, General Motorsand Chrysler, flying urgently needed auto- mobile components from Detroit to sub-assembly plants. Head Office: Detroit Metropolitan Airport,Inkster, Michigan. Executives: D. A. Zantop, H. W. Zantop,L. A. Zantop, partners. Fleeti two Argosy 100, four DC-6A, threeDC-4, four DC-3, 23 C-46. Zothner Tolderlund-Compania Argentina deAero Taxi Zothner Tolderlund is an Argentine non-scheduled carrier licensed to operateirregular passenger and freight services to Paraguay and Uruguay.
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