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FLIGHT International, 21 March 1974 Naples Airlines is the southern operat ing division of Provincetown-Boston Air line of Provincetown, Mass. Scheduled passenger services are operated from Naples to Miami and Tampa in Florida. Head Office: PO Box 1037, Municipal Airport, Naples - on - the - Gulf, Florida 33940, USA. Fleet: Five DC-3, one Lockheed 10A. one Cessna 402B, one Cherokee Six. National Airlines was founded in 1934. The airline now operates an extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services from Miami along the Atlantic coast to New York and Boston in the north, and along the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans and Houston to San Diego, Los Angeles and San Fran cisco on the Pacific coast. In 1970 National began transatlantic services with a daily round trip between Miami and London. Head Office: PO Box 2055, AMF, Miami, Florida 33159, USA. Executives: Chairman/president/chief executive, L. B. Maytag; executive vice- president, E. F. Dolansky; vice-presi dents: marketing, J. D. Brock; finance, R. W. Dunn; general counsel, W. A. Nelson; industrial relations, John M. Donlan; properties, H. B. Taylor; flight operations, L. J. Royall; maintenance/ engineering, T. J. Richert; maintenance production, Warren Schuling; treasurer, R. J. Higley; Washington affairs, E. J. Hillings; public relations, R. M. Matell. Employees: 8,000. Fleet: Two Boeing 747-100, two DC-10- 30, nine DC-10-10, two DC-8-61, three DC-8-20/30/50, 25 Boeing 727-200, 13 727-100. On order: Two DC-10-30, five DC-10-10. Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maatschappij (NLM) was formed during 1969 as a subsidiary of KLM. Scheduled domestic services began in August 1966 and link Amsterdam with Eindhoven, Maastricht, Groningen and Enschede. Head Office: Room 115, MAC Building, Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Nether lands. Executives: Managing director, Dr J. W. G. ter Braak; chief pilot, Capt R. Disse; manager of stations, H. B. J. Hoogland. Fleet: Four Fokker F.27. New York Airlines was formed in August 1949 and began helicopter mail services between the New York area airports in October 1952. Passenger services began in July 1953 and included a service to the Pan American Building rooftop heli port in Manhattan from 1966 to 1968. In March 1970 NYA replaced the 25-seat Boeing-Vertol 107s used for several years with Sikorsky S-61Ls and current services (30 seats available every 30 min) link the New York airports of Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark, with Morristown (New Jersey) Teterboro and the Wall Street Heliport on the Man hattan waterfront. Head Office: PO Box 426, LaGuardia Airport Station, Flushing, New York 11371, USA. Executives: President, Warren A. Fucigna; assistant to president, J. F. Morganelli; vice-presidents: flight opera tions, J. B. Conley; maintenance, M. A. Conway; assistant vice-president, traffic, Martin F. Schnabel. Employees: 210. Fleet: Four Sikorsky S-61L. New Zealand National Airways Corpora tion (NZNAC) was created by an Act of the New Zealand Parliament in De cember 1945 to take over and expand the operations of three private airlines, Cook Strait Airways, Union Airways and Air Travel (NZ) NZNAC pur chased the stock and shareholding of these airlines but did not start opera tions under its own name until 1947. NZNAC serves 25 destinations operat ing 4,000 miles of routes in and between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Head Office: PO Box 96, Wellington CI, New Zealand. Executives: Chairman, A. F. Gilkison, board members, G. N. Roberts, G. L. Berry, C. W. Mace, J. D. Dalgety; secre tary to the board, A. A. Hoffman; general manager, D. A. Patterson; deputy general manager, L. L. Ford; assistant general manager, G. K. Gro-cott; project development manager, Capt H. C. Walker; chief engineer, C. W. Labette; flight operations manager, Capt A. C. Kenning; chief accountant, G. C. Fraser; supply manager, D. W. John son; marketing manager, M. A. Rams-den; customer services manager, H. M. Pierard; planning director, A. R. Kirk-ham; personnel manager, G. M. Hyde. Employees: 2,838. Fleet: Seven Boeing 737-200, four Viscount 800, 15 Fokker F.27. On order: One 737-200. Nigeria Airways, known until 1971 as WAAC (Nigeria), began operations on October 1, 1958, taking over the Nigerian services formerly operated by the West African Airways Corporation, which it succeeded. The airline is now wholly government-owned and operates a network of scheduled domestic ser vices from Lagos and Kano together with international routes to London, Rome, Zurich, Madrid, Accra, Abidjan, Monrovia, Freetown, Bathurst, Dakar, Beirut and New York. Head Office: PO Box 136, Airways House, Lagos Airport, Nigeria. Executives: Chairman, S. M. C. Obi; acting general manager, L. L. T. Lawson; deputy commercial manager, M. Oke; acting engineering manager, O. Adeg- besan; acting chief accountant, F. O. Iriobevbudu; directors: P. O. Ahimie; Lt Col N. A. E. Ayanru; Alhaji Ibrahim Halilu; J. E. K. Oyegun; V. A. Adegoroye. Directory 43 Employees: 2,400. Fleet: Two Boeing 707-320C, two 737- 200, three Fokker F.28, five Fokker F.27. one Aztec. NLM — see Nederlandse Luchtvaart Maattschappij. Norcanair—see North Canada Air. Nordair was established in 1957 by the merger of Mount Laurier Aviation and Boreal Airways (founded in 1947). Since its formation the airline has enjoyed steady expansion and, following the re view of regional routes in August 1969, Nordair's network was enlarged to in clude Ontario and North-western Quebec from Montreal. Nordair's network con sists of scheduled air services from Mon treal to the resource development area of North-western Quebec, to the Eastern and High Arctic and from Frobisher Bay to several settlements in the Eastern Arctic. The southern route net work consists of services between Mon treal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Windsor and Pittsburg. The Montreal-Val d'Or-Fort George service is the latest addition to Nordair's network and is the first direct scheduled air link between Montreal and Phase 1 of the James Bay develop ment project. Other activities include an extensive programme of inclusive-tour flights to the Caribbean, ad hoc charters and a five-year ice-reconnaissance con tract from the Canadian Department of Supply and Services. Head Office: Montreal International Airport, Dorval, Quebec, Canada. Executives: Chairman, James F. Tooley; president, Roland G. Lefrancois; vice-presidents: marketing, Jacques C. Leger; engineering/operations, Roger E. Morawski; traffic development, Kurt Peiffer; finance, George G. James. Employees: 618. Fleet: Six Boeing 737-200, three Electra, one Hercules, one DC-4, four FH-227, one Canso, six DC-3, three C-46, one Twin Otter, one Mallard, one Skyvan, one Beaver. Nordic-Air was formed in 1971 to operate cargo charter services using a single DC-4. This was replaced by two Electra freighters in 1972, but these have since been sold to Fred Olsen, and Nordic-Air has no aircraft at present. Head Office: Torp Airport, 3200 Sandefjord, Norway. Executives: Managing director, A. Karlsen; technical director, Per H. Sorensen. North Canada Air (Norcanair) was founded in August 1947 as Saskatchewan Government Airways and reorganised into a commercial carrier under the present name in March 1965. Operations were begun as a non-scheduled carrier but Norcanair now flies scheduled ser vices from Prince Albert to Lac La Ronge, Stony Rapids, Uranium City, Regina, Saskatoon and Fond du Lac. Head Office: PO Box 850, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Executive: President / general man ager, Jack B. Lloyd. Fleet: Four DC-3, one Bristol Freighter, two Fairchild F-27, two Canso, one Twin Otter, two Aztec, four Otter, six Beaver, one Cessna 206, two Cessna 185, two Cessna 180. North Cay Airways, a subsidiary of Airways Enterprises Inc, operates scheduled passenger and cargo services between San Juan and St Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands. Head Office: PO Box 3309, Isla Grande Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00904. Fleet: Four DC-3, 20 BN-2A Islander. North Central Airlines was established in 1944 as Wisconsin Central Airlines. Approval for the operation of routes from Chicago to cities in Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and upper Michigan was given in 1946 and operations began
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