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In the 1960s, the airline operated Douglas DC-3s, a Beechcraft Model 18 and a Beechcraft Musketeer.
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Throughout the 1960s, BUA was Britain's largest independent airline.
The Dutchess County Airport in nearby Wappinger services general aviation, although it once had scheduled air carrier service by Colonial Airlines in the 1950s and commuter airline service by Command Airways and others in the 1960s – 1980s.
In the early 1960s, when commercial jet airline service came to Orlando, the installation became a joint civil-military facility.
The greatly increased seating capacities of the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8, compared to the propeller-driven DC-6 and DC-7, prompted the Civil Aeronautics Board to approve the consolidation of commercial airline service at TPA in the early 1960s.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the airport also had scheduled airline service operated by Eastern Airlines, which utilized Boeing 727 and Douglas DC-9 jetliners as well as Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop aircraft on flights serving Melbourne.
Despite the improvements, the island airport did not become a passenger airline hub, and its existence came into question, starting in the 1960s.
During 1952, BEA carried its one-millionth passenger, and by the early 1960s it had become the Western world's fifth-biggest passenger-carrying airline and the biggest outside the United States.
By the early 1960s, excluding Aeroflot, BEA carried more passengers per year than any other airline in Europe ; worldwide ( excluding Aeroflot and the Civil Aviation Administration of China ), only the " Big Four " US airlines – American Airlines, United Airlines, Eastern Air Lines and TWA – carried more.
In the 1960s, considerable steps in the development of the local airline industry were made.
In the middle 1960s the airline and other transportation industries lobbied for uniformity of Daylight dates in the United States.
As Eilat continued to grow during the 1960s, so did the airline, introducing the Handley Page Dart Herald 200 turboprop aircraft to its fleet between 1967 – 1968, enabling Arkia to expand with new routes to Jerusalem, Sharm-el-Sheikh, and Santa Caterina.
A subsidiary, Kanaf Arkia Airline and Aviation Services, was founded when the airline acquired 50 % of the stock of Kanaf Airlines and Aviation Services, and, by the end of the 1960s, scheduled flights were in operation across Israel, from Rosh Pina in the north, to Ofira in the south.
During the 1960s the airline operated a Beechcraft Model 99 and six Convair 600s, along with the inevitable DC-3s.
This was due in part to operating 1960s era aircraft, running the airline within the rigid constraints of a planned economy, and bureaucratic interference in daily operations.
During the 1960s and 1970s the airline obtained Antonov An-24 and An-26 twin turboprops.
The airline went through several iterations, originally consisting of small float planes in the 1950s, evolving to include a varied fleet of Convair 640s and Douglas DC-4s into the 1960s.
Initially operating services on domestic routes, the airline saw expansion in the late 1960s and 1970s, when it began international flights to destinations such as France and South Africa.
Rival charter airline Skyways, one of Britain's foremost independent airlines during the 1950s and early 1960s, had been taken over by Euravia in 1962.
Capital Air Service, Inc. ( ICAO airline designator CPX ), was headquartered in Manhattan from the 1960s until the company went out of business in the late 1980s, after having twice been grounded by the FAA for multiple safety and records keeping violations.
It was during the 1960s that many of the rock art galleries were found by Percy Trezise, an airline pilot who opportunistically surveyed the area from the air for likely sites and later walked in to rediscover them.
In the early 1960s, the Venezuelan government wanted to separate LAV's international and domestic routes, thus creating a new airline, Viasa, for international flights.
The airline played a prominent role in the Vietnam War during the late 1960s, using Douglas DC-8-63 jets to connect McChord Air Force Base, Washington with Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, fairly close to the front lines with North Vietnam.
In the 1960s – 1980s, the airport had commuter airline service by Command Airways, Colgan Airways, Air North, and others.
In the early 1960s, airline headsets were so large and clunky that many pilots had switched back to the use of handheld microphones for communications.
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The shallow and deep groundwater aquifers beneath the Intersil Facility in Mountaintop, Pennsylvania, which RCA operated in the 1960s and later sold to Harris Corporation, contain elevated levels of volatile organic compounds.
It has operated commercially since the late 1960s, holding in effect a monopoly on domestic service.
In the 1960s, experimental monastic groups were formed in which both men and women were members of the same house and also were permitted to be married and have children — these were operated on a communal form.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Jewel built and operated many Jewel-Osco side-by-side stores, but most construction after 1983 consolidated Jewel and Osco stores together as one large store under one roof.
During most of the 1960s, Osco operated as two divisions – ' City Osco ', comprising the Chicago, Illinois and Chicago suburb stores and ' Country Osco ' ( all the other Oscos ).
Manually operated photocomposition systems using fonts on filmstrips allowed fine kerning between letters without the physical effort of manual typesetting, and spawned an enlarged type design industry in the 1960s and 1970s.
Another former major employer in Crayford was Dussek Brothers ( part of Burmah-Castrol since the 1960s ) who operated their oils and waxes blending business on Thames Road from around 1928 until the site was bought by BP and subsequently closed down in 2001.
In the 1960s, Darin owned and operated a music publishing and production company ( TM Music / Trio ) and signed Wayne Newton, giving him a song that was originally sent to Darin to record.
Invader Corporation, a boat manufacturer, owned and operated from the early 1960s through 1980s by Arne Gray and George Wooldridge.
The former Eastern Baptist Seminary operated in Somerset during the 1950s and 1960s, having been founded by the theologian I. K. Cross.
* Gonsoulin Insurance Agency, located on main street between Ed Broussard Road and Gonsoulin street, this 1970s architectural style building was the home of the family-owned Gonsoulin Insurance Agency which operated from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s.
This building operated as a Western Auto Parts affiliate from the late 1960s until the early 1980s.
Harold Melancon operated a small barbershop at this location from the late 1960s until the late 1970s.
The facility opened in the early 1960s and operated until its closure in the 1980s.
These vessels were operated extensively between the 1880s to the 1960s.
In the 1950s and 1960s, during the Cold War, the Department of Defense ( through the United States Army ) operated Nike missile launch site D-54 on the site of what is now Young Patriot's Park.
During the late 1960s a hand operated scoreboard was used.
The Bank of Marlin was opened in 1892 and operated until the early 1960s.
Legendary deejay Wolfman Jack operated XERF in the 1960s, using a Del Rio address to sell various products advertised on the station.
It operated in this manner until the early 1960s.
The British Army's Anti-Aircraft Command was disbanded in March 1955, but during the 1960s and 1970s the RAF's Fighter Command operated long-range air-defence missiles to protect key areas in the UK.
The programme took a nostalgic look at compulsory national service, which operated in Britain from the wartime years until the beginning of the 1960s.
During the 1960s Saunders-Roe developed several larger designs which could carry passengers, including the SR. N2, which operated across the Solent in 1962 and later the SR. N6, which operated across the Solent from Southsea to Ryde on the Isle of Wight for many years.
In the 1960s in the UK, the term referred to not only a perceived unauthorized use of the state-run spectrum by the unlicensed broadcasters but also the risk-taking nature of offshore radio stations that actually operated on anchored ships or marine platforms.
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