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Aviation History
1970
1970 - 0544.PDF
WORLD AIRLINES 1970 . Fleet: Eight Boeing 727-95. 13 727-295. 14 DC-9-30, six FH-227. On order: Eight Lockheed TriStar. Northern Wings Ltd (Les Ailes du Nord) was incorporated in 1945, and operates ser vices in eastern Quebec between Aguanish. Baie Johan Beetz, Blanc Sablon, Geth- semanie, Harrington Harbour, Harve St- Pierre, Kegaska, La Tabatiere. Natashquan. Old Fort Bay, St-Paul, Sept-Iles and Tete- a-la-Baleine. Charter and contract work is also performed. The company became a Quebecair subsidiary in May 1965 as did Northern Wings Helicopters Ltd, which operates five Bell 47G-4s and a Hughes 300 on a wide range of charter jobs. Head Office: PO Box 458, Sept-Iles. Quebec, Canada. Executives: President, Neil Gough: gen eral manager. Charles D. Moir. Employees: 70. Fleet: One C-46, two DC-3. one Canso. four Beaver, two Cessna 185. Northland Airlines Ltd began passenger, mail and cargo charters in 1961 and took over the Manitoba services of Transair Ltd during 1967. Head Office: 755 Henry Avenue. Winni peg 3, Manitoba. Canada. Executives: President. P. M. Lazarenko: general manager. G. M. Best: chief pilot. Capt Peter Sosnowski. Fleet: Five Catalina, two DC-3. five Beech 18 floatplane, one Lockheed 18. one Bar clay-Grow, three Anson, one Beaver, one Cessna 180. one Found FBA-2. four Norse- Northwest Airlines Inc was incorporated on August I, 1926, as Northwest Airways. Inc. The present corporate name was adopted in 1934. For publicity purposes the airline trades as Northwest Orient Airlines. By T945 a trans-continental route had been estab lished and in 1947 the company began ser vices to the Far East. In 1948 Washington and Honolulu were added to the network and in 1950 Edmonton and Formosa. The present system comprises 20,000 miles of routes stretching from coast to coast of the USA; into Canada and Alaska : to Hawaii: and across the Pacific to Japan, South Korea. Okinawa, Manila. Formosa, and Hong Kong. Northwest also serves Florida and Philadelphia. Head Office: Minneapolis-St Paul Inter national Airport. St Paul. Minnesota 55111 USA. Executives: President. Donald W. Nyrop : vice-president: Personnel, Robert A. Ebert: finance and treasurer. D. H. Hardesty: maintenance and engineering. F. C. Judd • (Top left) A Northwest 707-320. (Top) A Lockheed L-1049 of the Indonesian carrier Nusantara. (Above) An Olympic 727 and an Overseas National DC-8-50F Orient Region, James Abbott: purchasing and stores. Clayton R. Brandt; budgets. Robert W. Campbell; communications and data services. W. E. Huskins. Jr: economic planning. M. J. Lapensky: transportation services. C. Larry Stewart: sales. Robert J. Wright: regulatory proceedings. J. W. Campion: comptroller. R. J. Phillips. Employees: 12.500. Fleet: 16 Boeing 720-051B, 10 707-351B. 26 707-351C, 30 727-51/51C. 24 727-251. On order: 15 747-51. 14 DC-10-20. On option: Six Boeing SST. Nusantara Airlines (Peritis Nusantara), a division of Murphree Air International Inc of Hollywood, was formed in 1968 by a group of US and Indonesian businessmen to operate international and domestic pas senger and cargo services from Djakarta. Flying Tiger Line is also believed to have an interest in Nusantara and have leased the airline its first aircraft. Eight more L- 1049Hs are expected to follow. Operating authority was received on August 22. 1969. and first service was operated on Septem ber 16, 1969. between Djakarta. Manila and Singapore. Head Office: 11526 Burbank Boulevard N. Hollywood. California. USA. Executives: President, Dennis Firestone : director, Carl Murphree: vice-president operations, Lodi de Ridder. Employees: 19. Fleet: One L-1049H. NZNAC^see New Zealand National Air ways Corpn. NZ Tourist Air Travel operations were integrated into those of Mount Cook Air lines during 1969. Olsen—see Fred Olsens Flyveselskap A/S. Olympic Airways took over TAE National Greek Airlines' assets and started operations on April 6. 1957. TAE was founded in 1951 by the amalgamation of TAE. Hellas and AME. Because of financial difficulties TAE was taken over by the Greek Government in June 1955. Owned by A. Onassis, Olympic's domestic services link all the principal cities and islands of Greece while international services are operated between Greece and Italy. France. Germany. Switzerland. Nether lands. Britain. Turkey. Cyprus. Israel, the Lebanon. Egypt and the USA. Head Office : 96 Leoforos Sygrou. Athens. Greece. Executives: President. Prof Th. Garo- falides: executive vice-president. Prof J. Georgakis; executive directors: marketing. Max Stuart-Shaw; planning/development. Ch. Mavrokefalos: inspector general, J. Papadakis: financial. A. Zambeilas: legal. T. Koutalides; flight operations. Capt P. Ioannides: traffic/cargo. V. Skoulakis: tech nical, L. Grammatikos: purchasing. G. Hat- zikonstantis.
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