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520 fLIGHT international, 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . taken. The operations base is at Manchester Airport.Head Office: Manchester Airport, Wythen- shawe, Manchester.Executives: Lord Calthorpe, managing director; Lady Calthorpe, Capt P. F. Gurdon,directors; G. C. Wilkinson, commercial director; Capt I. D. Wallace, operationsdirector; J. H. Jepson, chief engineer. Employees: 25.Fleet: two Heron IB, one DC-3. Mercury Air Transport SRL is a recentlyformed Argentine non-scheduled carrier. Fleet: Curtiss C-46. Metropolitan Air Movements was formed inJune 1960 and offers executive travel on an ad hoc and contract basis. The base is atBiggin Hill, where maintenance is in the hands of A. J. Whittemore.Head Office: 16 Berkeley St, London Wl. Executives: Air Chief Marshal Sir GuyGarrod, chairman; Lt-Col C. L. Melville, M. E. Jarvie, M. A. Winslett, Geoffrey Try,G. J. H. Jeffs; B. H. M. Winslett, and J. S. Colchester, secretaries.Fleet: one Dove. Mexicana—Compania de Mexicana Ayiacion SAwas founded on August 20, 1924, to carry pay- roll gold from Tampico to the oil fields in theState of Veracruz, thus avoiding the bandits who had been attacking the paymasterstravelling by surface. The original fleet consisted of single engined Lincoln Standardbiplanes. In 1929 Pan American Airways acquired 100 per cent of CMA's stock but theholding was subsequently considerably reduced and PanAm severed its link with Mexicanaon November 1, 1961, CMA, now the main Mexican private enterprise airline operates anetwork of services within Mexico and to San Antonio and Dallas (Texas), Los Angeles,Chicago, Montego Bay and Kingston (Jam- aica). Scheduled freight services are alsooperated within Mexico. Comets operate the "Golden Aztec" services from Mexico City toLos Angeles and Merida. Head Office: Box 901, Balderas 36, Mexico,DF. Executives: P. A. Chapa, president; C.Ballesteros, first vice-president; C. F. Osuna, second vice-president and treasurer; L. Latapi,secretary; H. Max Healey, general manager; Sosa de la Vega, commercial director.Employees: 2,700. Fleet: three Comet 4C, nine DC-6, two DC-4,seven DC-3. Mexicanas—see Lineas Aereas Unidas Mexi- Middle East Airlines — Air Liban (MEAL)was until 1963 known as Middle East Airlines. MEA was founded as a private concern in 1945.In 1949 Pan American Airways acquired 35 per cent of MEA's stock, but withdrew fromthe company in 1955, when BOAC took a 48.5 per cent shareholding. In August 1961 MEAbought BOAC's shares in the company and the airline was then a completely independentLebanese organization. Since the merger with Air Liban in 1963 Air France has had a 30 percent holding in the new airline and MEA 70 per cent. Comet, Caravelle and Viscountservices are operated throughout the Middle East, Arabian Gulf and to Cairo, Ankara,Istanbul, Athens, Nicosia, Vienna, Geneva, Frankfurt, Rome, Aleppo, Jeddah, Aden andLondon. The network extends eastwards to Baghdad, Teheran, Karachi, and Bombay. Adaily Comet service is operated from the Arabian Gulf to London via Beirut. MEALhas now taken over the routes, including those to West Africa of the former Air Liban.Head Office: Beirut International Airport, Beirut, Lebanon. Executives: Sheikh Najib Alamuddin, chair-man of the board and president; Assad Y Nasr, executive vice-president; Col CyrilEssely, senior vice-president (commercial); W. Forsyth, senior vice-president (engineer-ing); Capt R. W. Hornall, senior vice-president (oper. develop.); Salim Bey Salaam, seniorvice-president (international affairs); George Caravan, vice-president (engineering); CaptG. C. Mcgilvray, vice-president (operations); Sami Mousfi, vice-president (traffic and sales).Employees: 2,060. Fleet: two Caravelle 6N, four Comet 4C, fourViscount 754, three DC-3. On order: two BAC-Sud Concord. Mid-Hudson Airlines is a US air taxi operatorthat has recently inaugurated a twice-daily scheduled service from Idlewild to Pough-keepsie, New York State, connecting with American Airlines' flights.Fleet: Piper Apache, Aero Commander. Midwest Airways operates services fromCincinnati to Columbus (Ohio), Cleveland and Detroit.Head Office: Terminal Building, Lunken Field, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.Fleet: three L.10 Electra. Millard Air was formed in 1963 to operateregular services between Toronto and Sarnia that were formerly operated by Nordair.Head Office: Toronto International Airport, Ontario, Canada.Executives: W. Millard, president; C. Millard, operations manager.Fleet: one Beech 18. Misair SAE—see United Arab Airlines. Modern Air Transport Inc is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier awarded interim operating authority in October 1962.Five ex-Capital Constellations have been acquired. Head Office: Newark Airport, Newark, NewJersey. Fleet: two C-46, five L.049 Constellation, oneTwin Bonanza. Mohawk Airlines was founded in 1945 as anintra-state carrier with the title Robinson Air- lines. The company took its present name in1952 and is now operating routes in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and to Toronto,Canada. Head Office: Oneida County Airport, Utica,NY, USA. Executives: E. Victor Underwood, chairman;R. E. Peach, president; C. A. Benscoter, exe- cutive vice-president; J. R. Carner, senior vice-president/general counsel; J. C. Brawner, senior vice-president finance; B. C. McLean,vice-president corporate affairs and secretary; R. V. Stephenson, vice-president sales; H. P.Barnard, Jr, vice-president industrial relations; W. B. Caldwell, treasurer.Fleet: 14 Convair 240, five Convair 440, 14 Martin 4-0-4. On order: four BAC One-Eleven. Monavir-Meron is a recently-formed Israelioperator of taxi and charter services that has now received permission to operate scheduledservices on the Tel Aviv - Haifa, Haifa - Beersheba and Haifa - Eilat routes. Doves areto be used on these routes. Head Office: Hahasmal Str. 33, Tel-Aviv.Executives: Moshe and Zvi Levinson, direc- tors; Rina Levinson, chief pilot.Fleet: Cessna 180B. On order: Cessna 185. Mongolian Airlines—UVS MNR (also knownas Air Mongol) operates II-14s between Irkutsk and Ulan Bator in conjunction withAeroflot. Domestic routes are operated, and the airline also takes part in ambulance andagricultural aviation. Head Office: Ulan Bator Airport, Mongolia.Fleet: 11-14, I1-14M, An-2, Yak-12. Morefly is a Norwegian charter operatorbased on Alesund. Air ambulance and photo flights are also undertaken.Head Office: Alesund. Executive: K. S. Haram, managing director.Fleet: one Grumman Widgeon, two Seabee, one Tri-Pacer seaplane. Morton Air Services Ltd is a member of theAir Holdings group (see also British United Airways) and operates scheduled passengerservices from London (Gatwick) to the Channel Islands on a seasonal basis and toExeter via Swansea all the year round. Charter flights are also undertaken. Head Office: Portland House, Stag Place,London SW1. Executives: T. W. Morton, chairman andmanaging director; T. J. Gunn, operations manager; J. J. Fargher, secretary; S. A.Carter, commercial manager; A. J. McFie, chief engineer; W. Pfeiffer, chief inspector; P. L. Eskell, sales manager.Employees: 120. Fleet: one E>C-3, three Heron, four Dove. Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Co isa New Zealand coach and tour operator whose Airlines Division began operations in 1961with two ex-NZNAC DC-3s. Services are operated between Christchurch, Mount Cook,Cromwell or Queenstown, Dunedin, Te Anau and Invercargill. Ski-equipped light aircraftoperate scenic air trips to Mount Cook and Fox Glacier.Head Office: PO Box 226, Timaru, New Zealand.Executives: H. R. Wigley, general manager; A. McWhirter, operations manager; Capt G. B.Williams, chief pilot. Fleet: two DC-3. Nagasaki Airways is a Japanese domesticcarrier whose management visited France last September to evaluate the Potez 840 forpossible use on domestic routes. Nagasaki would undertake maintenance of any Potez840s ordered by Kansai Airlines, which is also interested in the type. Executives: Mr Nakamura, president; SusumuWatanabe, general manager. Naka Japan Airlines (Naha Nihon Koku K.Kaisha) is a Japanese taxi and charter operator that also undertakes various types of aerialwork. Naka Japan was due to merge or co-operate with All Nippon together with Fujita Airlines and Toa Airways.Head Office: 223, 1-chome, Sasajima-cho, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya.Executive: Shunichi Yogo, president. Fleet: one Sikorsky S-62A, one Grumman Goose, two Kawasaki-Bell 47G-2A, two Kawasaki-Bell 47G-2. two Cessna 172, twoCessna 170B. Namakwaland Ludgiens (Edms) Beperk beganoperating a twice-weekly service in 1961 be- tween Capetown and Springbok in the CapeProvince of South Africa. Head Office: Springbok, Namaqualand (POBox 28), South Africa. Fleet: one Aztec, one Bonanza. Naples Airlines operates an intrastate seasonalservice in Florida between Miami and Naples that begins in December and ends on April30. This carner is affiliated to Provincetown- Boston Airlines Inc, who have providedequipment. Head Office: Municipal Airport, Naples-on-the-Gulf, Florida, USA. Fleet: L.10A Electra, Cessna 310, PiperApache, Piper Comanche, Cessna 172. National Airlines was founded as an intra-stateoperator and began scheduled services on October 15, 1934, with two Ryan monoplanesover a 142-mile route between St Petersburg and Daytona Beach. The airline now operatesa network extending from Boston, New York and Washington down the eastern US sea-board to Tampa and Miami. Routes from Jacksonville and Miami stretch west to NewOrleans and Houston, and on to Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco.There is also a New York - Miami all-freight service operated with Electras. On December 10, 1958, National became thefirst US domestic carrier to operate jet services using Boeing 707-121s leased from PanAmuntil May 15, 1959. DC-8s now operate daily non-stop New York - Miami services andservices through New Orleans and Houston to the West Coast. National commencedElectra services on April 23, 1959. Three DC-8 Series 30s were acquired from Northwest in1963. Head Office: Miami, Florida, USA.Executives: L. B. Maytag, Jr, president; G. R. Woody, executive vice-president; J. D. Brock,vice-president traffic and sales; E. F. Dolansky, vice-president finance; M. C. Wedge, vice-president flight operations. Employees: 4,144. 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