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544 FLIGHT International, WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Mongolian Airlines (Air Mongol) wasformed in 1956 with assistance from Aero- flot. Domestic operations started in July1956 and later on international routes to Irkutsk and Peking from Ulan Bator.Activities include agricultural flying and air ambulance work. Head Office: Ulan Bator, Mongolia.Executive: Chairman, Lt-Gen B. Tsog. Fleet: Three Antonov An-24B, 11-14, An-2, Yak-12 Mi-4. Monmouth Airlines started operations inMarch 1967 and flies third-level services from Farmingdale to Washington National,Kennedy International and Newark air- ports.Head Office: Monmputh County Airport, Farmingdale, New Jersey. Executive: President, E. L. Brown Jr.Fleet: One Piper Navajo, one Aztec, one Apache, one Cherokee Six. Montana Aircraft Co operates scheduledthird-level services from Billings in the state of Montana. Head Office: Logan Field, Billings,Montana, USA. Fleet : Montauk-Caribbean Airways Inc operatescheduled commuter air services in the summer between la Guardia, Montauk,Block Island, East Hampton, Mattituck and Fishers Island. Operations were begunin 1960. Head Office: PO Box 638, Montauk,Long Island, New York. USA. Executive: President, Robert O. King.Employees: 10. Fleet: One Queen Air, one Aztec, oneCessna 205. Montgomery Aviation Corporation operatescheduled commuter air services twice- daily between Dannelly Field, Montgomeryand Huntsville Municipal Airport under the name Huntsville Aviation. A Piperdealership is also held. Head Office: PO Box 92, Montgomery,Alabama, USA. Executive: President. Robert P. Hudgens.Fleet: Aztec, Twin Comanche, Comanche, Beech 18. Morton Air Services Ltd, founded in 1945,is a member of the Air Holdings Group and operates scheduled passenger servicesfrom London (Gatwick) to Alderncy axd between Alderney and Southampton all theyear round. Passenger, freight and ambu- lance charters are also undertaken. Head Office: Portland House, Stag Place,London, SW1. Executives: Chairman and managingdirector, T. W. Morton: operations manager, T. J. Gunn: chief pilot, N. D.Mackay; secretary, J. J. Fargher: commer- cial manager, P. L. Eskell; chief engineer,W. Pfeiffer; sales manager, J. Wilding: purchasing manager, K. S. Codman. Employees: 170. Fleet: Six DC-3, six Heron, three Dove. Mount Cook Airlines, a division of MountCook and Southern Lakes Tourist Co Ltd is a NZ coach and tour operator whose airservices began in 1961 with one ex-NZNAC DC-3. Daily services are operated betweenChristchurch. Mount Cook, Queenstown, Alexandra, Dunedin and Te Anau. Eightski-equipped light aircraft operate scenic air trips to Mount Cook, Franz Josef and FoxGlacier as Mount Cook Air Services. The company now has a controlling interest inNZ Tourist Air Travel Ltd. Head Office: PO Box 226, Timaru, NewZealand. Executives: Managing director. H. R.Wigley: general manager, A. K. Rollinson : general manager. MCAS, S. M. Robertson :sales manager, E. G. Beckett; airline mana- ger. Captain G. B. Williams: chief pilot.Captain A. J. McLeod; commercial mana- ger. A. McWhirter. Employees: 54. Fleet: Two DC-3. seven Cessna 185, oneCessna 180. On order: One HS.748. Munz Northern Airlines Inc was formed in1938 and known until May 1962 as Munz Airways; it was incorporated in October1967. Federal authority suspended by CAB in February 1965 for five years, butMunz still holds intra-state authority for scheduled services. Company is whollyowned by general manager and CAB cer- tificate is in the name of Howard J. Mays. Head Office: PO Box 790, Nome,Alaska, USA. Executives: President and general man-ager, Dick Galleher: vice-president, opera- tions, Otis W. Lammqnds; vice-presidentcomptroller, Leon Killian; general office manager, Joyce Galleher; maintenancesuperintendent, D. L. Bronson Fleet: Two Aero Commander 180, twoAermacchi AL-60, three Stinson V-77 Re- liant, two Cessna T-50, one Cessna 180. Murchison Air Charter Pry Ltd operatestaxi and charter services from Perth and has applied to operate third-level Cessna402 services between Perth and Esperance, a route over which MM A already operates.Head Office: 935 Hay Street, Perth, Western Australia.Fleet: One Cessna 411, two Aztec B, two Cessna 182. On order: two Cessna402. Nagasaki Airways Co Ltd, or NagasakiKoku KK, was formed in December 1961 with the Nagasaki Prefecture as a 50%shareholder to operate scheduled services from Nagasaki, in particular to the remoterislands on Kyushu. There is a daily Convair 240 service between Nagasaki and Fukuoka,and also services from Nagasaki to Fukue and the island of Tsushima, and fromFukuoka to the islands of Iki and Tsushima, as well as from Omura to Fukue.Nagasaki's scheduled routes were due to be taken over by AH Nippon as from Decem-ber 1, 1967. Head Office: Kanyumubanchi Mori-sonogo, Omura, Nagasaki, Japan. Executives: President, H. Nakamura :vice-president, T. Kondo; managing director, Y. Ikedaa.Fleet: Convair 240, three DC-3, two Dove, one Grumman Goose, two Cessna172C. Namakwaland Lugdiens (Edms) Beperk operate scheduled domestic services betweenSpringbok, Cape Town and Alexander Bay. Scheduled operations were begun in 1961and Namakwaland is wholly owned by Jowell Transport and Motor Co. Head Office. PO Box 28, VoortrekkerStreet, Springbok, South Africa. Executives: Directors, J. Jowell, N.Jowell, C. Jowell. O. G. Davies. Fleet: One DC-3, one Aztec, oneBonanza. Naples Airlines operate year-round sched-uled commuter air services between Naples Municipal Airport and Miami InternationalAirport, with extensions to Marco Island and Fort Myers. The whole operation is anactivity of Provincetown-Boston Airline Inc who provide aircraft and personnel. Theservice was first operated in 1960, initially on a seasonal basis, between December andApril each year. Head Office: PO Box 1037, Naples-on-the-Gulf. Florida, USA. Executives: President, John van Arsdale;vice-president, John E. Zate. Employees: 19. Fleet: One DC-3, three Lockheed 10A,two Apache, two Cessna 182, one Comanche, two Cherokee. NASA Commuter Airlines Inc will operate ahigh frequency scheduled commuter service linking the NASA Manned SpacecraftCentre and surrounding civilian community with Houston's new Intercontinental Airportupon the opening of the latter. The 11- minute flight is opposed to up to two hoursground travel time. NCA will also operate a scheduled helicopter service between thenew airport and five selected sites through- out metropolitan Houston, offering a highfreauency of schedules. Head Office: Box 58290. Houston. Texas77058 USA. Executives: President, J. L. Seaborn •exec, vice-president and general manager' Tom Garanfio. 6 •Fleet: Four DHC-6 Twin Otter Bell 205A. ' National Airlines Inc was founded as anintra-state operator and began scheduled services on October 15, 1934, with twoRyan monoplanes over a 142-mile route between St Petersburg and Daytona BeachNational operate coast-to-coast jet services from Boston and New York to Key WestFlorida and from Miami to New Orleans' Houston, Las Vegas, San Diego, LosAngeles, and San Francisco. Non-stop ser- vices operate between Miami and LosAngeles, and Miami and New York In December 1958 National became the firstUS domestic carrier to operate jet services using Boeing 707-121s leased from FanAmerican. Head Office: PO Box 2055, Miami Inter-national Airport, Florida, USA. Executives: President and chief executive.L. B. Maytag; executive vice-president! G. R. Woody; vice-president, traffic andsales, J. D. Brock; vice-president, finance, E. F. Dolansky; vice-president, flight opera-tions, M. C. Wedge. Employees: 6,000. Fleet: One DC-8-61, 13 DC-8. 13 Boeing727-35. On order: 25 727-235. one DC-8-61, I two 747. i National Airways Corporation (Pty) Ltdwas formed in 1958 and now operates regu- lar charter and newspaper contract servicesbetween Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Subsidiaries are Swazi-AirLtd, Pretoria Air Services, OFS Air Ser- vices and Natal Aviation. NAC also hasinterests in Bechuanaland Air Safaris. Sky- work (Pvt) Ltd of Salisbury, and SouthernAviation. Owners are Fisher and Simmons Ltd of Johannesburg. Head Office: Winchester House. LovedayStreet, Johannesburg, South Africa. Executives: Chairman. D. Dunn: manag-ing director, D. van B. Ord : administration manager, Captain P. E. Henn; commercialmanager, J. F. H. Andrew: chief pilot, Captain K. Jones. Employees: 35.Fleet: Two DC-3, six Aero Commander, one Beagle 206. plus Cessna, Piper. Beech,Mooney and Navion. National Executive Flight Service Inc wasformed in 1959 and has operated scheduled commuter air services since 1962 under thename Executive Airlines. Services are operated between Logan InternationalAirport, Boston, and Nantucket / Martha s Vineyard (Massachusetts), Augusta./ Water-ville (Maine), Montpelier/Morrisville (Ver- mont), and White Plains (New YorKj.During the winter months a seasonal scheduled service is operated betweenSarasota and Tampa (Florida). Head Office: Gate 18, Logan Inter- national Airport, Boston, Massachusetts 02128', USA. ,.,Wv. Executive: President, Joseph C. Whitney. vice-president, Henry A. Laughlm Jr. Employees: 32. . .„.„ Fleet: Three Queen Airliner, six A.ro Commander 500, three Cherokee Six. one Twin Otter, one Cessna 182F. Nederlandse Luchtvaart .(NLM) was formed as a subsidiary during 1966 to operate domesticfor a trial period of two year!v fl^tricht.link Amsterdam with Eindhoven, Maasmc' Groningen and Enschede with F _7s ie»from the Royal Netherlands Air ^or Operations began on August 29 iw ,3 Head Office: Hangar 6-W, RoomSchiphol-East, Netherlands. !;Executive: President. Capt J- •>•* _£ tionchief pilot. Capt L. Latners; head stan organisation. H. B. J. Hoogland. Fleet' Two Fokker F.27. V Netherlands Antilles Air ^ operates charter flights in the with a C-46. Head Office: Curacao, Antilles. Fleet: One Curtiss C-46.
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