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1977
1977 - 3659.PDF
WORLD [FtDiiKnr compilation RCENSUS No 15 THIS year's World Airliner Census I order by manufacturer, the commerc with, or on order by, the world's schi airlines. Abbreviated names of carrie to save space, and the words "Airlin omitted except where necessary to d precisely. Abbreviations used are co following: A Air/Aereos/Aereas; AL Avn Aviation; AW Airways; C Char Int International/lnternacional; LA L Services/Sen/icio/Servicios; T Trans the nume ;ngs, the figures in aircraft still to be J, in some i airlines. Every effort has been made t up to November 1. Full names and ot of the operators mentioned can be fo World Airline Directory, published oi The census this year covers 74 typi multi-en Nest being Aerospatiale/Nord 262. Full technical currently being developed or built car Flight Commercial Aircraft : published on October 8. Altl the oldest types still in regs: Catalina and DC-3 (first flights both ' DC-4 (1942) and Constellation (1943). no new types entered service during 1 review, although the entry into schedi service on November 1 of the Tu-144 considered significant. Scheduled to enter service early ne seat Dash 7, and still under developrr seat Yak-42 and the 350-plus-seat II-8I number of older types still in airline s dwindled to insignificant nu; figures) and no longer merit inclusion in the main table. Therefore, they are recorded here for completeness, and include the Aviation Traders Carvair (Uni-Air 1); Boeing/Conroy AS201 Super Guppy (Aeromaritime 2); BAC VC10 (Air Malawi 1, British AW 1, Ghana AW 1 Gulf Air 5); Convair CV-240(AL Colonia 2, Pacific AL2 Trans Florida AL 1); CV-880 (Lanica 2); DH Canada Caribou (Air America 1, Air Gabon 1, Guyana AW 2); Lockheed Constellation (Aerovias Quisqueyanas 3); Super Constellation (Aero Tour Dominicana 1, Air Cargo Support 1, Mid Air 1, Transair Cargo 1); Nord Noratlas (Atesa 2); and Short Sandringham (Antilles Air Boats In the year since the last survey was published, the •-'•-••>' •". •'.•• • .: -•,•:',..•• ';.:v:. :..-,>•;,;• ok:,:-. ' ; '-: - , V "•"' '•'"• ':' ' : '••• • '' '• --•;':'•,'. •. " '.:'.•,- ,... . :'.,;. .-.; ;:• selling turbine-powered airliner, while the Soviet An-24/26 " ." ' ; • • •'>.',:.;•« !;•: ..•:•:.:.::•:.••:.:.'• ••;••«-.>.•. •/•<&• *;- impro- only just failed to maintain third place, having been 934 vii. prod i The tables show that Western aerospace manufacturing turbopi is again de -for wide-body airliners reached I under review. .:v:i.'..-'..'./'.-.,j'.-.' '•-.::•••:,>,'••''•• ".'•'•'"•t.'.^'.»;. :;3$SS*:''
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