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Commuter airlines directory nally an amphibious opera tion but the provision of an airfield on the island facili tated the commencement of a land-based service on January 21, 1978. A further route, to Dunedin, com menced in 1980. Head Office: PO Box 860, Invercargill, New Zealand. ^4930 Executives: chairman, W. G. Broughton; general man ager, W. M. Norris; chief pilot, M. H. Paulin. Employees: eight. Fleet: one Nomad N22B, one Cessna 402, one Piper Aztec. Southern Cross Airlines was originally formed as Air Charter Tours, later became known as Nation wide Air Services and then adopted its present title. Scheduled services initially linked Wollongong and Newcastle and the former Masling routes from Syd ney to Tumut, Nowra, and Mouya are now flown. Head Office: PO Box 152, Mascot, New South Wales 2020, Australia. Fleet: two Cessna 402, two Beech Queen Air, one Cessna 310. Southern Frontier Air Transport, formed in 1978, acquired the former Gate way Aviation routes operat ing out of Calgary and flies scheduled passenger ser vices to Swift Current and Regina. Freight schedules are flown to Edson, Grand Prairie, Pincher Creek, Lethbridge, and Medicine Hat. Head Office: Hangar 1, Calgary International Air port, Calgary, Alberta, Can ada T2P 2G3. Fleet: two DC-3, one DHC Twin Otter, two Beech King Air 90, one Cessna 401, three Cessna 402, one Cessna 310. Southern Jersey Airways was formed in 1963 by the father of the airline's cur rent president and has been a participant in the Alleg heny Commuter system since June 30, 1970, when it inaugurated passenger and cargo services to Wild- wood and Cape May and to Millville and Philadel phia, both routes being flown from Atlantic City. The route network now in cludes Newark, Trenton, Asbury Park, and Mon mouth. Head Office: Bader Field, Atlantic City, New Jersey 08401, USA. Executive: president, Donald C. Young. Fleet: five DHC-6 Twin Otter, two Piper Navajo Chieftain. On order: four DHC Dash 8. South Pacific Island Air ways was formed in June 1973 and commenced opera tions by flying between Pago Pago and the Manua Islands. The airline now serves the Ofu and Tau Islands in American Samoa, to Apia in Western Samoa, to Ha'apia, Tongatapu and Vava'u in Tonga and to the Wallis/Fortuna Islands in French Polynesia. Head Office: PO Box 400, Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799. Fleet: three DHC-6 Twin Otter, two Cessna 402, one BN-2A Islander. Sovereign Airlines flies scheduled services, inaugu rated on October 4, 1976, between Melbourne's Tulla- marine Airport and Ben- digo, Swan Hill, and Mil- dura. Head Office: Tullamarine Airport, Melbourne, Vic toria 3045, Australia. Fleet: one Cessna 401, one Piper Navajo Chieftain, one Piper Navajo, one Beech Baron, one Cessna 182. Suburban Airlines is a divi sion of Reading Aviation Service, which flew a daily Reading-Newark round-trip under the title Reading Air lines. The airline assumed its present operating title in 1968, and the first Twin Otter was introduced in March of that year. Five years later, in March 1973, Suburban joined the Alleg heny Commuter system and now operates more than 100 daily flights in Pennsyl vania, New Jersey, and New York. These include Lan caster to Allentown, New York/J. F. Kennedy and Newark, Philadelphia, Reading and Washington. Other destinations include Binghampton and Buffalo. Head Office: PO Box 1201, Reading, Pennsylvania 19603, USA. ^836-456 Executives: president, Arthur M. Horst; executive vice-president, David F. Rick; chairman, R. Harding Breithaupt; vice-presidents: operations, Craig M. Horst; marketing, Paul R. Doelp; controller, Charles W. Linck. Employees: 175. Fleet: five Shorts 330. On order: three DHC Dash 8, four Shorts 360. Summit Airlines, originally formed in 1966 as Delaware Air Freight (Del-Air Cargo), adopted its present title in June 1974. Sched uled cargo services are operated to more than 20 major US cities, including Boston, Jacksonville, Mil waukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Dayton, Atlanta, Cincinnati and New York. Head Office: Philadelphia International Airport, Phila delphia, Pennsylvania 19153, USA. Executive: president, Joseph W. Wear. Fleet: five Convair 580. Sun Aire Lines is the name under which Borrego Springs Airline, certificated in November 1968, has operated scheduled passen ger and cargo services since December 1968. Routes in clude Palm Springs-Borrego Springs-San Diego, and Los Angeles International - El Centro-Yum a-Phoenix. Head Office: 210 North El Cielo Road, Palm Springs, California 92262, USA. Executive: president, George Khurts. Fleet: five Swearing en Metro II. Sunbird Airlines was formed by its president, Ralph Quinlan, in November 1979 and commenced operations with a single Cessna 402, flying daily between Hick ory, Charlotte, Raleigh/Dur ham and Rocky Mount/ Wilson. Rapid expansion has resulted in the addition to the network of Atlanta, Tri-Cities, Fayetteville, Wil mington, Kinston, Green ville and Norfolk, so that the airline now operates in North and South Caro lina, Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. Operations and maintenance are at Little Mountain Airport, Maiden, North Carolina. Head Office: PO Box 488, Denver, North Carolina 28037, USA. Executives: president, Ralph Quinlan; directors: marketing and sales, James G. Cochrane; operations, Jeffrey A. Bond; chief pilot, Charles Redmond. Fleet: eight Cessna 402, two Cessna 404, one Beech 99, one Beech C99. On order: nine Beech C99. Sunbird Aviation was formed in July 1979 as the result of a merger between Sunbird Charters (founded in 1969) and Casp air (founded in the early post war years and latterly a subsidiary of the Cassman Brown Group). Scheduled passenger services are operated from Wilson Air port, Nairobi, to Kisumu, Keekorok, Mara Serena, Musiara and Kichwa Tem- bo. Charter flights are also undertaken throughout Eastern Africa, serving mostly Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Tanzania. Head Office: PO Box 30103, Nairobi, Kenya. ^22347 Executives: chairman, M. Hemstead; managing direc tor, Capt R. D. Knight; general manager. Capt P. C. Lucas; chief pilot, Capt A. J. Wilson. Employees: 40. Fleet: two DC-3, two Cess na Titan, two Beech King Air 200, two BN-2A Islan der, two Piper Navajo, two Cessna 402, one Cessna 310, three Partenavia P.68, one Piper Aztec, two Beech Baron, one Piper Twin Comanche, one Cessna 210. Sun International Airways is a subsidiary of Perkio- men Airways, based in Pennsylvania, which pro vides scheduled passenger and cargo services in Puerto Rico; principally to San Juan, Culebra and Vieques, Head Office: San Juan In ternational Airport, Isla Verde, Puerto Rico 00913, USA. Executives: president, Eugene F. Plum, Sr; vice- president, Robert Plum. Fleet: two Piper Aztec, three Beech 18. 1422 FLIGHT International, 7 November (981
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