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Olympic operates Comet 4&$ through Europt and to the Near East 522 FLIGHT Intertmbnal, 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Airlines Lodestars are used and Asuncion(Paraguay) is now served. Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina.Executive: Dr J. E. Buschiazzo, president. Fleet: three Lodestar. North Centra] Airlines Inc was established in1944 as Wisconsin Central Airlines. Approval for the operation of routes from Chicago tocities in Wisconsin, eastern Minnesota and upper Michigan was given in 1946 and opera-tions were begun with three Lockheed L.10A Electras in February 1948. The companyadopted its present name at the end of 1952, now operates 7,100 miles of routes in ten uppermidwestern states and the province of Ontario, Canada. It is the largest US local servicecarrier in terms of passengers and cargo carried. In 1963 North Central was awardeda contract to provide operational assistance to Lloyd Aero Boliviano. Head Office: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.Executives: H. N. Carr, president; B. Sweet, vice-president finance; F. N. Buttomer, vice-president traffic and sales; A. D. Niemeyer, vice-president flight operations; R. H. Bendio,vice-president maintenance and engineering; A. E. Schwandt, vice-president industrialrelations; J. P. Dow, secretary; D. F. May, treasurer; C. G. Westberg, assistant secretary.Employees: 2,100. Fleet: 19 Convair 440, 25 DC-3. Northeast Airlines serves the East Coast areaof the United States with routes that extend from Montreal through Boston, the entireNew England area, New York, Philadelphia, Washington to Miami and Fort Lauderdale,Florida. Now in its 31st year of service, North- east was originally established as Boston-Maine Airways, its present name being adop- ted in 1940. Convair 880 jets entered servicein January 1961. "No Reservations" services are now operated between Boston, New Yorkand Washington. Head Office: Logan International Airport,Boston, Mass. Executives: James W. Austin, president andchairman of the board; Edmund O. Schroeder, executive vice-president operations; F. M.Coates, vice-president finance and administra- tion; M. W. Offutt, vice-president traffic andsales; Harry F. Zimmerman, vice-president/ controller.Employees: 2053. Fleet: six DC-3. 15 DC-6B, six Convair 880. Northern Consolidated Airlines Inc was foundedin 1945 to integrate the operations of a number of small airlines in southwest Alaska. Thecompany has about 3,000 miles of routes in western and southwest Alaska for scheduledand non-scheduled flights. Head Office: Anchorage, Alaska.Executives: R. I. Peterson, president/general manager; James M. Dodson, vice-presidentcustomer service and public relations; S. B. Fitzhugh, vice-president finance and treas-urer; V. R. Davis, secretary/general traffic manager; W. R. Rice, vice-president opera-tives; L. P. Fritz, vice-president traffic and sales. Employees: 165. Fleet: two Cessna T-50 Bushmaster. threeFairchild F-27B. two Cessna 180, one Pilatus Turbo-Porter, four Pilatus Porter. Northern Wings—Les Ailes Du Nord Lteeoperates non-scheduled services in eastern Canada and a regular service of about 400miles from Seven Islands to Blanc Sablon on the Quebec/Labrador border, and also toWabush and Gagnon. A subsidiary company, Northern Wings Helicopters Ltd, operatesfour Bell 47G-2 Troopers on charter. Head Office: Seven Islands, PO, Canada.Executives: J. Cauchon, president; J. Brown, vice-president; A. Monast, secretary-treasurer;W. G. McElrea, general manager. Employees: 65.Fleet: three DC-3, two Canso, one Otter, four Beaver, one Norseman, one Beech D-17S,four Bell 47G-2 Troopers. North Japan Airlines operates a domestic routenetwork within the island of Hokkaido and linking Hokkaido to Akita. North Japan,Fiji Airlines and Nitto Aviation were due to merge on April 1. Head Office: West-2, North-1, Sapporo, Hok-kaido. Executives: Fumio Takaoka, president; YuichiMino, executive director; Takeji Fukuoka, inspector.Fleet: five Convair 240, two DC-3, one Aero Commander 68OF, one Cessna 170B, oneCessna 195. Northland Airways is a local service operatorbased on Auckland. A network radiating northwards from Auckland and serving sixpoints is operated. Head Office: PO Box 5226, Rent-a-PlaneService (NZ) Ltd, 68 Victoria St W, Auckland, New Zealand.Fleet: Cessna 310, Cessna 180. Northwest Airlines was incorporated onAugust 1, 1926, as Northwest Airways, Inc. The present corporate name was adopted in1934. For publicity purposes the airline trades as Northwest Orient Airlines. By 1945 a trans-continental route had been established and in 1947 the company began services to the FarEast. In 1948 Washington and Honolulu were added to the network and in 1950 Edmontonand Formosa were added. The present system comprises 20,000 miles of routes stretchingfrom coast to coast of the USA; into Canada and Alaska; to Hawaii; and across the Pacificto Japan, South Korea, Okinawa, Manila, For- mosa. In 1958 Northwest was given permissionto extend its domestic network to Florida. Head Office: St Paul, Minnesota, USA.Executives: C. Hunter, chairman; D. W. Nyrop, president; A. E. Floan, vice-presidentand secretary; F. C. Judd, vice-president maintenance and engineering; Robert J.Wright, vice-president sales; M. J. Lapensky, comptroller; D. H. Hardestv, vice-presidentfinance and treasurer; E. T. Nunneley, Jr, vice-rtresident and general counsel. -Employees: 6.090. Fleet:'five Boeing 707-351B, one DC-8, 13Boeing 720-05IB (four teased from Boeing), six DC-7C (three are DC-7CF freighters). 16Plectra, eight DC-6B. On order: three Boeing 707-351B, 11 Boein? 727. two Boeing 720-051B,four American SSTs. NZ Tourist Air Travel Ltd commenced opera-tions just on nine years ago from Auckland Harbour with a four-seater GrummanWidgeon. Non-scheduled services to all islands of the Hauraki Gulf are undertaken,also the transport of fishing parties and sight- seers. Ambulance flights are also undertaken.In 1961 NZ Tourist Air Travel acquired Amphibian Airways Ltd and took over thelatter's regular scheduled service between Invercargill in New Zealand's South Islandand Stewart Island. Other scheduled services are operated from Auckland to WaihekeIsland, Kawau Island and Great Barrier Island. Sightseeing flights to the lakes andsounds of the Southern Alps are also operated. The four Widgeons are being re-engined withContinental IO-470-D motors. Head Office: Box 2201, Auckland, New Zealand.Executives: Owen Marshall, chairman of directors; Capt F. P. Ladd, general manager;L. L. Johnston, chief engineer; Mrs. F. P. Ladd, operations manager.Employees: 9. Fleet: five Grumman Widgeon. Ocean Shores Airways started operating onMay 1, 1962 between Boeing Field and Ocean Shores, a holiday resort about 100 miles to thesouth-west of Seattle. Head Office: Boeing Field, Seattle, Washing-ton, USA. Executive: Charles Schachle, presidentFleet: two Heron. Okanagan Helicopters Ltd was founded in1947 by Carl Agar to conduct fruit-spraying by helicopter. Development of mechanicalsprayers necessitated a switch of emphasis to other activities. Two important operationstoday are provision of transport for Alcan's construction scheme at Kitimat and patrol ofoil pipelines. In 1955 Okanagan expanded by acquiring Kenting Aviation's fleet of 16 Bell47s and seven S-55s and by acquiring Canadian Helicopters Ltd. Together with its associatedcompanies, Okanagan is the world's largest operator of helicopters. Okanagan operateshelicopter taxi services under the name of "Coper Cabs" from Vancouver Airport topoints in the Vancouver area. Okanagan also provides crews and maintenance for 14 RCAFS-55s used on the western section of the Mid Canada Defence Line. Okanagan is to mergewith Pacific Helicopters Ltd. Head Office: Vancouver, BC, Canada.Executives: G. W. McPherson, president; F. W. Snell, vice-president operations; I.Kennedy, vice-president finance and secretary- treasurer; R. C. Thornber, sales co-ordinator.Employees: 150. Fleet: four S-58, 17 S-55, three Bell 47J, oneBell 47G, five Bell 47G-2, 7 Bell Super 47G. three Bell 47G-3B, 23 Hiller UH-12E. Olsen—see page 512 Olympic Airways took over TAE NationalGreek Airlines' assets and commenced opera- tions on April 6, 1957. TAE was founded in1951 by the amalgamation of TAE, Hellenic Airlines and AME. Because of financialdifficulties the company was taken over by the Greek Government in June 1955. Olympic isowned by A. Onassis. Domestic services link all the principal cities and islands of Greecewhile international services are operated between Greece and Italy, France, Germany,Switzerland, Netherlands, England, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, the Lebanon and Egypt. InJuly 1960, Olympic signed a consortium partnership agreement with BEA, providingfor joint Comet operations between London, Athens and points east.Head Office: 6 Othonos Street, Athens, Greece. Executives: Prof Th. Garofalidis. chairman;C. Konialidis, managing director; M. Tom- bras, associate managing director; S. Damas-kinos, general manager; Ch. Mavrokefalos. commercial manager; J. S. Papadakis, salesmanager; C. Cordoyannis, administration manager and traffic manager; C. Danis,technical manager; M. Brahalis, financial manager; C. Hondros, operations manager.Employees: 1,901. Fleet: four Comet 4B, three DC-6B, two DC-4,six DC-3, one Piaggio P.136L -2,one Fairchild Argus.
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