Arab Airways

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Arab Airways (Jerusalem)
De Havilland DH.89 Dominie (TJ-AAE) of the Arab Airways Association before the transfer flight to Transjordan
IATA code : JE
ICAO code : JE
Call sign : (unknown)
Founding: 1946 (as Arab Airways Association)
Operation stopped: 1958
Seat: Jerusalem , Jordan
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Home airport : Qalandia Airport
Fleet size: 3
Aims: international
Arab Airways (Jerusalem) ceased operations in 1958. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Arab Airways (Jerusalem) , originally established in 1946 as the Arab Airways Association , was a Jordanian airline and from August 1953 a subsidiary of the British Overseas Airways Corporation . The airline went on November 1, 1958 in Air Jordan .

history

Two Arab Airways Association DH.82 and one DH.89 in December 1947

Arab Airways Association Limited, or Arab Airways for short, was founded in January 1946 as a trans-Jordanian airline by British and Arab investors in Amman . The former RAF Captain WG Sanders was responsible for its operational operations . Because there was no civil airport in Amman at the time, the company had to build a private airport at its own expense. The company's original fleet consisted of three De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moths and five De Havilland DH.89 Dominie (Dragon Rapide) acquired by the RAF , which were delivered to the company on September 6, 1946. The route network departing from Amman initially included the destinations Baghdad ( Iraq ), Beirut ( Lebanon ), Cairo ( Egypt ), and Haifa and Lydda (both Palestine ). The flights to Haifa and Lydda had to be abandoned in 1948 as the state of Israel was founded . On July 16, 1949, Arab Airways set up a connection from Amman to Kalandia Airport near Jerusalem , which it initially flew three times a week and on which it provided shuttle services for the US American Trans World Airlines . From June 5, 1950, scheduled flights from Amman to Beirut were also run via Jerusalem.

The state-owned British airline British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) bought the company in 1953 through its subsidiary Aden Airways based in Aden ( South Yemen ) and converted it to Arab Airways (Jerusalem) Limited on August 23, 1953. At the same time, the company's headquarters were moved from Amman to Jerusalem. Aden Airways initially transferred two Douglas C-47 (DC-3) to the company. Starting from Jerusalem, they were used on international scheduled flights to Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo and via Jeddah ( Saudi Arabia ) to Aden, where there were regional connections through Aden Airways. At the same time, Arab Airways flew to Amman-Marka and Akaba from Jerusalem on schedule within Jordan . On the domestic routes at that time the company operated a De Havilland DH.89 and an Airspeed AS 65 Consul , which were replaced shortly afterwards by another C-47. Damascus ( Syria ), Kuwait and Maʿan (Jordan) were added as new destinations by 1956 , followed by Abadan ( Iran ) on April 1, 1958.

With the establishment of the United Arab Republic , Arab Airways was temporarily unable to fly to the cities of Damascus and Cairo from the spring of 1958. When the Lebanon crisis hit in the summer of 1958 , BOAC decided to sell the loss-making subsidiary to Air Jordan . Arab Airways ceased operations on October 31, 1958 and merged with Air Jordan a day later.

fleet

In the course of its existence, Arab Airways has used the following types of aircraft:

In October 1958, the company's fleet consisted of three Douglas C-47s.

Incidents

  • On May 8, 1948, a De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide ( registration number TJ-AAJ ) was attacked by an Israeli Harvard on the flight from Amman to Beirut and hit by several projectiles. The pilot managed to return to Amman and land safely there.
  • On September 23, 1948, the pilot of a De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide ( TJ-AAQ ) had to carry out an external landing near Irbid after his plane was shot at by an Israeli Avia S-199 . The Arab Airways machine was on a scheduled flight from Beirut to Amman with five passengers. The military pilot stated that he wanted to force the De Havilland to land on an Israeli airfield because it had penetrated Israeli airspace. To signal this, he put his plane in front of the Dragon Rapide and extended the landing flaps and landing gear . The British captain of the airliner went into a descent , but did not change course and shortly afterwards flew into Jordanian airspace. The military pilot then opened fire on the machine, which was hit on the right wing and caught fire. The fire then spread to the cabin. When the plane flew just above the ground, two passengers opened the outer door and jumped off the ship. Both were killed in the impact. At the same time, a third passenger was shot in the head and fell through the open door. The captain and the two other passengers survived the crash landing with injuries.
  • On June 13, 1950, a De Havilland DH.89 Dominie (TJ-AAB) was intercepted by a Spitfire and forced to land on the flight from Amman to Almaza ( Egypt ) over southern Israel . The aircraft was confiscated and taken over by the Israeli Air Force.
  • On May 9, 1953, three De Havilland DH.89s ( TJ-AAA and TJ-ABM as well as the G-AGZK serving as spare parts donor ) were destroyed in a hangar fire in Amman-Marka .

See also

Web links

Commons : Arab Airways  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d United States, Civil Aeronautics Board: Airlines of the Eastern Mediterranian and Adjacent Areas , December 1947, p. 31
  2. ↑ a b c Utopia: Jordan Aviation in the Fifties , accessed on June 8, 2020
  3. ^ A b c d e f g Air-Britain, Malcolm Fillmore: De Havilland DH89 File , accessed on June 3, 2020
  4. ^ Foreign Commerce Weekly: Arab Airways's New Service , Aug. 8, 1949, p. 35.
  5. ↑ Foreign Commerce Weekly: Jerusalem-Beirut-Jordan Air Service , July 24, 1950, p. 34.
  6. ^ World Trade Information Service: Economic Developments in Aden 1954 , p. 6.
  7. ↑ Robin Higham: Speed Bird: The Complete History of BOAC , Bloomsbury Academic, New York, 2020, ISBN 978-1-7807-6462-7 , S. 388th
  8. ↑ Arab Airways (Jerusalem) Ltd., flight plan of August 23, 1953 , accessed June 7, 2020
  9. ↑ a b Air-Britain, Post-War Civil Airspeed AS.40 Oxfords & AS.65 Consul Conversions (English), accessed on June 8, 2020.
  10. ↑ Arab Airways (Jerusalem) Ltd., flight plan from April 1, 1956 (English), accessed June 7, 2020
  11. ^ Arab Airways (Jerusalem) Ltd., flight plan from April 1, 1958 (English), accessed on June 7, 2020
  12. ^ Leonard Bridgman (Ed.): Jane's All The World's Aircraft, 1952-53. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, London.
  13. ↑ Onespotter, Douglas C-47B-1-DK JY-ABN , accessed June 8, 2020
  14. ↑ Onespotter, Douglas C-47B-5-DK JY-ABR , accessed June 8, 2020
  15. ↑ Onespotter, Douglas C-47B-DL JY-ABS , accessed June 8, 2020
  16. ↑ Sir Alec Kirkbride: From the Wings, Amman Memoirs 1947-1951 , Frank Cass and Company Limited, London, 1976, ISBN 0-7146-3061-6 , pp. 107-109.
  17. ↑ United Nations: Attack on Arab Airways Commercial Aircraft , S / 1098, December 2, 1948 , accessed June 8, 2020
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