Individual - where possible - history of as many of the original
Nonsked - Supplemental airline as possible. This series will include
some of the earliest post war veteran owned and operated airlines,
including one that operated cargo C-47's and trailed a war surplus
troop glider also loaded with freight which it released to land
at airports and then swooped in later to pick it up on the tow.
Airlines that will be included: New England Air Express, Westair-Roy
Briten, Ocean Air Tradeways-US Overseas-Ralph Cox, Transocean-Orvis
nelson, Resort Airlines-Paul Wesener, Pacific Overseas Airlines,
SS&W -Smith M. Spicher, Meteor Air Transport- Bob Morrow, Trans
Caribbean, Viking Aerovan/Airlines-Duffy-Hart-Dickason-Atkins,
North American, Oxnard Sky Freight-Duffy, 20th Century0Hart, Samoan
Airlines-Coleman, Standard Air Cargo-Stan Weiss, Standard Airways
- Bud Craft, Friedkin Aeronautics/PSA, General Airways-Gus Callas,
Great Lakes/Transcontinental/Skycoach, Air America -Rich&Miller,
Slick Airways-Earl Slick, Penninsular Air Transport- the Robinsons,
Miami Airlines- Capt Duff, Air cargo Express, Coastal Air Cargo,
Zantop Air Transport, Saturn Airways, Trans International, World
Airways - Bill Odum - Ed Daley, CIA, Southern Air Transport-Doc
Mohr, Imperial Airlines-Bud Averman, Transamerica, California
Eastern-Andre de St. Phalle, Los Angeles Air Services-Kirk Kerhorian,
Stewart Air Services- Ed Stewart, Mantz Air Services-Paul Mantz,
Johnson Air Services, Pearson Alaska Airlines, Air Transport Asoociates,
California Hawaiian AirlineCAl central-Col Sherman, Mercer Enterprises/Western
Flying Services-Poddy Mercer, Modern Air Transport-John Becker,
Worldwide Airlines and as many others as we can obtain sufficient
interesting information to report upon.
We will also include aircraft types, accidents, incidents, special
operations and the people of the industry such as Fritz Hutcheson,
Terry Dickason, Herb Kielson, Bob Blake, maury Swidler, Kenny
Friedkin, Don Duffy, Capt Herrmann, Poddy Mercer. |