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605 . FUGHT International, IS April 1965 Portuguese Airlines TAP has three Sud Caravelle 6Rs, one of which is seen here on the apron 01 Usoon n Transportes Aereos Jalisco—TAJ—operatestwo DC-3s on charter services within Mexico. Head Office: Guadalajara, 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: Ediflcio Salame, Tegucigalpa,Honduras. Executives: M. Brooks, president; R. Alvarez,secretary. Fleet: five C-46, one DC-6. Transportes Aereos Neuquen operates taxi,charter and local services in central Argentina. Head Office: Neuquen, Argentina.Fleet: DHC Beaver. Transportes Aereos Orientates operatesregional services in the Oriente district of Ecuador, and started operations in 1958.Head Office: Quito, Ecuador. Executive: Capt G. Ruales, manager.Fleet: one Junkers Ju 52/3m, one Cessna 180, one Norseman. Transportes Aereos Portugueses SARL—TAP—was founded in 1944 as a division of the Civil Aviation Department. Its first service,between Lisbon and Madrid, was opened in September 1946; services to Angola andMozambique were opened the following year. TAP is now largely private-owned and operatesdomestic and cabotage services from Lisbon to Oporto, Funchal, Porto Santo, SantaMaria and, starting summer 1965, Faro (Azores), Bissau, Luanda, Beira and LourencoMarques. International services are operated to Madrid, Paris, London, Geneva, Frankfurt,Las Palmas and (from April 1965) Brussels and Johannesburg. TAP uses its fleet ofCaravelles on European routes and the L. 1049s will be augmented later by recentlyordered Boeing 707-320Bs on the African routes. Head Office: Rua Conde Redondo 79, Lisbon,Portugal. Executives: Eng Vaz Pinto, chairman; EngMendes Barbosa, director; Eng F. Quinteiro, maintenance director; Dr F. Filipe, financedirector; Cer S. Soares, operations director; Dr Cruz Barreto, commercial director; CerRoger de Avelar, head of central planning; tng C. Ferreira, inspector.Employees: 1.850. Fleet: five Lockheed L.1049G, three Caravelle6R. On order: two Boeing 7O7-32OB. Transportes Aereos Salvador Ltda started asa charter operator in 1949 and began scheduled operations within the State of Bahia in 1953.IAS was later absorbed into REAL but operates under its own name local servicesradiating from Salvador. head Office: 8 Avenida Iona Angelica, Sal-vador, Bahia, Brazil. Fleet: DC-3. Transportes Aereos Terresrres SA is a Mexicanearner which, at least until recently, operated a Ford Trimotor service between Tayoltita andMazatlan on the Pacific coast of Mexico. Head Office: Avenida Juarez 117, Despacho505, Mexico, D.F. Fleet: Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor. Transportes Aeriens du Gabon—Transgabon—began regular operations in 1951 and now links about 20 points in Equatorial Africawith Libreville. Head Office: PO Box 90, Libreville, Gabon.Executive: J. H. C. Brouillet, president. Fleet: one DC-4, two Bristol 170, two DC-3,one Rapide, two Beech 18, three Cessna 182, one Cessna 185, one Cessna 205, one Bell 47J. 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-Texas Airways Inc—TTA—was formedin 1940 as Aviation Enterprises and began scheduled operation in October 1947. Theairline now has about 7.500 miles of routes within Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas,New Mexico and Mississippi. Ex-American Airlines' Convair 240s are now operated. All25 Convairs are to be re-engined with the Dart 10/1 and designated Convair 240D. The firstis expected in service during the summer of 1965. Head Office: Houston, Texas, USA.Executives: R. E. McKaughan, president; R. E. McKaughan, Jr, executive vice-presi-dent; H. E. Erdmann, senior vice-president advance planning," A. G. Kamel, asst vice-president, sales; H. H. Fair, treasurer; J. K. Ayer and Ruth Lawrence, assistant secretaries.Employees: 900. Fleet: 25 Convair 240 (to be Dart-powered), 18DC-3. Trans World Airlines—TWA—had its originin Western Air Express, which was founded in 1925 to bid for an air-mail route from LosAngeles to Salt Lake City. WAE began mail service in 1926. In 1929 Trans-ContinentalAir Transport, which had started a combjned rail/air transcontinental service, obtainedcontrol of Maddux Air Lines. At about the same time WAE absorbed Standard Air Linesand then, on October 1, 1930, TAT-Maddux and Western Air Express completed a mergerto form Trans-continental and Western Air Inc (TWA). In 1934, reconstitution followedthe Post Office mail-flying upheaval. TWA became Trans World Airlines in 1950.The airline has been responsible for sponsoring some successful aircraft, having issued speci-fications for the Douglas DC-l/DC-2, the Boeing 307 Stratoliner and the Constellation.TWA now has more than 50,000 miles of routes stretching from coast to coast in theUSA and across the North Atlantic to Europe, North Africa and Asia as far asBombay. Non-stop Boeing 707 jet services between New York and California and 707Intercontinental services between New York, London and European points were started in1959. Convair 880 service began on US routes in January 1961. Head Office: 605 Third Avenue, New York10016, USA. Executives: Ernest R. Breech, chairman;Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr, president; R. M. Dunn, senior vice-president and system generalmanager; E. O. Cocke, senior vice-president, industry affairs; Thomas B. McFadden, vice-president, marketing; James J. Kerley, vice- president, finance.Employees: 20,000. Fleet: 15 Boeing 707-131, 23 707-131B, 11707-331, seven 707-331B, seven 707-331C, 16 727, 26 Convair 880, On order: four 707-131B,13 707-331B, six 727, 20 DC-9, one Convair 880, ten US SST, six Concorde. Trek Airways Pry, formed in August 1953,operates non-scheduled, low-fare services between South Africa and Europe, Luxem-bourg is the main European terminal, and Trek is now the designated South Africancarrier on the Johannesburg - Luxembourg route. Trek's flights from Johannesburg arenow routed through Windhoek, Luanda and Cape Verde to Luxembourg. Two L.I649Ashave been acquired from World Airways. Head Office: Mobil House, 87 Rissik Street,Johannesburg, South Africa. Executives: Capt T. Meredith, operationsdirector; W. B. Rorke, financial director; Capt C. H. Snelgar, commercial director;W. E. Hamilton, European director; F. C. Gratz, manager.Employees: 160. Fleet: two L.1649A Super Constellation. Tunis Air was founded in 1948 by the TunisianGovernment, Air France and other interests. It operates internal services and over routes toAlgeria, Libya, Morocco, France, Switzerland and Italy.Head Office: 47 Rue du Portugal, Tunis, Tunisia.Executives: Mohamed Kraiem, president and director general; R. Bouderbala, commercialmanager; Habib El Amri, technical manager. Fleet: two Caravelle 3, two DC-4, two DC-3. Turk Hava Yollari AS — THY — formerlyknown as Devlet Hava Yollari (Turkish State Airlines), was set up by the Government in1933 as part of the Ministry of Defence. Control passed to the Ministry of Communi-cations in 1938 until 1956 when it became a corporation bearing its present title Turk HavaYollari Anonim Sirketi (Turkish Airlines Inc). BO AC now holds a 6 % interest in THY, whichoperates an internal network and international services to Athens, Rome, Frankfurt, Nicosiaand Beirut. Head Office: 96 Gumiissuyu Caddesi, Galata,Istanbul, Turkey. Executives: Sami Sehbenderler, general man-ager; Suphi Iscen, assistant general manager; Kadri Satiryigit, technical manager; TalatBiringen, commercial director. Employees: 1,310.Fleet: four Viscount 794, eight F-27, 17 DC-3. Tyne Tees Airways was previously known asTyne Tees Air Charter Ltd. An "E" licence for general charter work was granted by the ATLBin 1964. Head Office: Woolsington Airport, Newcastle- upon-Tyne.Executive: G. Mohamed, managing director. Ukamps, the North Korean airline, is suc-cessor to Sokao, the Soviet-North Korean air- line, which was founded in 1950 to connectNorth Korea with Aeroflot's services to and from Moscow. Ukamps, described as theMinistry of Transport of Korean Democratic People's Republic, operates between Pyong-Yang and Peking. Head Office: Prospekt Stalina, Pyong-Yang,Korean Democratic Republic. Fleet: Li-2,11-14.
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