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Transocean DC-4. Known for the first few months of its existence as Orvis Nelson Air Transport (or ONAT), Transocean Air Lines was a supplemental air carrier, a type of US airline defined and regulated by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now defunct Federal agency that, from 1938 to 1978, tightly regulated almost all US commercial air transportation.
On July 12, 1953, Transocean Air Lines Flight 512, a Douglas DC-6A operated by Transocean Air Lines from Guam to Oakland, California, crashed into the Pacific Ocean roughly 630 km (340 nmi) east of Wake Island while en route to Honolulu for a planned stopover. All 58 passengers and crew on board were killed.
Transocean Air Lines Flight 942 was a military charter flight operated by Transocean Air Lines. On 6:36 p.m. on March 20, 1953, the flight, a Douglas DC-4 , crashed in a barley field on Oakland, California , killing all 35 people on board.
A former Southwest Air Lines Boeing 737-200 A former JTA Boeing 737-400 in former Southwest Air Lines livery at Chūbu Centrair International Airport, Nagoya, Japan (2013) A former JTA Boeing 737-400 (2004) The airline was established on 20 June 1967 as Southwest Air Lines (南西航空, Nansei Kōkū), and started operations in July 1967. It ...
A few 377s were sold to smaller airlines, used as freighters, or converted by Aero Spacelines into heavily modified enlarged freighters called Guppies. [29] During 1959 and 1960, Transocean Airlines assembled a fleet of fourteen at bargain prices. In 1960, TOA went bankrupt and only four were in operable condition.
Also in 1947, Calasia started operating its fleet of five leased C-54s under contract to Transocean Air Lines until January 1950. [6] In July 1950, Overseas National Airways was incorporated in Delaware, [ 7 ] and ONA started operating in the Pacific under contract to the Military Air Transport Service (MATS) [ 6 ] (North Korean troops crossed ...
DC-4s were a favorite of charter airlines such as Great Lakes Airlines, North American Airlines, Universal Airlines, and Transocean Airlines. In the 1950s, Transocean (Oakland, California) was the largest civilian C-54/DC-4 operator. Aerolíneas Argentinas DC-4 starting engines at Buenos Aires international airport in 1958 Pan American DC-4 in ...
Transocean Air Lines Flight 942 (a C-54G, N88942) lost control for reasons unknown and crashed while on approach during a flight from Roswell, New Mexico, to Oakland, California. All 35 on board were killed. [91] 4 April 1954 An Autrex C-54A (F-BFGQ) struck a tree while on approach to Gia Lam Airport and crashed in the Red River, killing the ...