National Airlines (1984)
| National Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | OV (NAN) |
| Call sign : | NATION AIR |
| Founding: | 1977 as United Air Carriers |
| Operation stopped: | 1985 as an airline, 1986 as a leasing company |
| Seat: |
New York , United States
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| Home airport : | John F. Kennedy International Airport |
| Fleet size: | 17 (March 1986) |
| Aims: | international |
| National Airlines ceased operations in 1985 as an airline and in 1986 as a leasing company. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. |
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National Airlines (originally United Air Carriers , then trading as Overseas National Airways from May 1979 to the end of 1983 ) was an American airline based at John F. Kennedy International Airport that ceased operations in 1985. The company operated charter traffic under its own name and also leased machines to other airlines.
history
United Air Carriers
In the summer of 1977 the deregulation of US air traffic became apparent. Steedman Hinckley, CEO of the US charter airline Overseas National Airways ( ONA ), feared ruinous competition between the airlines and decided to cease flight operations the following year and to dissolve the ONA . At the same time, he founded the leasing company United Air Carriers Inc. ( UACI ) on July 21, 1977 , which was to remain active afterwards. The new company received FAR-129 approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) , which allowed it to lease aircraft to other companies ( dry lease ) and also carry out contract flights outside the USA on wet lease . United Air Carriers took delivery of its first aircraft, a Douglas DC-8-21 , on April 4, 1978 , and received four more Douglas DC-8s during the year, which were mainly used on cargo flights for Saudi Arabian Airlines and Egypt Air . In addition, from October to December 1978 a brand new McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF rented by ONA was operated for Saudi Arabian Airlines on Hajj flights to Jeddah . This wide-bodied aircraft had ONA adopted on 8 September 1978 by the manufacturer, but no longer used it because of the simultaneously introduced cessation itself.
Overseas National Airways
After Overseas National Airways, founded in 1950, had ceased operations on September 14, 1978, Steedman Hinckley acquired its Air Operator Certificate and trademark rights in February 1979 and renamed United Air Carriers accordingly on May 30, 1979. At the same time, the company used a Boeing 747 for Saudi Arabian Airlines for the first time . In the spring of 1980, the fleet consisted of eleven Douglas DC-8s of various series, which were operated for other airlines or were leased to such, including Saudi Arabian Airlines and the Italian charter airline Aeral . In addition to the leasing business, Steedman Hinckley decided to operate charter flights again under the ONA brand and applied for a corresponding operating license.
Overseas National Airways initially received FAR-121 approval for domestic and international cargo flights in April 1980. A license to take up international passenger flights on a charter basis was granted in December 1981 by the US aviation authority. The leasing of aircraft remained the company's main business. Her clients included, among others Capitol Air and Air India , the latter sat leased Douglas DC-8 cargo one, and British Caledonian , a leased from May 1982 Boeing 747 on its routes from London Gatwick to Lagos and Kano in Nigeria operational . In the same year, Overseas National Airways had some of their Douglas DC-8-61 and DC-8-63 retrofitted with modern CFM56 engines and initially used these aircraft, known as Super Seventies , in IT charter services to Europe. On September 7, 1982, the company received a three-year approval for IT charter flights to Japan . For this purpose, she founded the subsidiary Four Season Airlines together with the hotel chain Four Seasons Group , which operated the flights to Japan with two Douglas DC-8-71 leased from ONA . From the 1983 summer season, Boeing 747s were used in IT charter services to London-Gatwick. These aircraft, some of which were only rented for a short time, received the company's signature; However, they had no uniform painting, but carried the basic colors of the previous operator. The company planned to offer transatlantic scheduled flights in the following year and acquired the right to use the name National Airlines from Pan American World Airways ( Pan Am ), which the first National Airlines had bought in July 1979.
National Airlines
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On January 1, 1984, Overseas National Airways for National Airlines , renamed without following took place a recording of scheduled flights. In March 1984 the fleet consisted of thirteen Douglas DC-8s leased to Air Afrique , Air India , Icelandair , Saudi Arabian Airlines and Zantop International Airlines . In addition, National Airlines operated a Boeing 737-200 for Pan Am and carried out IT charter flights from the northeastern states to Florida and the Caribbean with two McDonnell Douglas MD-82s rented by Alisarda during the winter months . Boeing 747s leased again were used on the transatlantic charter routes in the summer of 1984 and 1985.
National Airlines stopped operating under its own brand at the end of 1985 for economic reasons. Your operating license was canceled on March 30, 1986. Until the opening of insolvency proceedings in May 1986, the company remained active as a leasing company. At the beginning of March 1986 the fleet consisted of a Boeing 747-200 leased to Egypt Air and 16 Douglas DC-8s of different series, ten of which were leased to the cargo airline Emery Worldwide .
fleet
The company operated the following types of aircraft under its own branding and for other airlines:
- Boeing 707-320
- Boeing 737-200
- Boeing 747-100 and 747-200
- Douglas DC-8-21, DC-8-31, DC-8-32, DC-8-33, DC-8-55, DC-8-55F, DC-8-61, DC-8-63, DC -8-63CF, DC-8-71, DC-8-73CF
- McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF
- McDonnell Douglas MD-82 (leased to Alisarda in the winter of 1983/84 and 1984/85 )
Incidents
- On January 15, 1981 fell Douglas DC-8-61 ( aircraft characteristics : N913R ) of the Overseas National Airways on fire while the machine is in a hangar of the Cargolux on the airport Luxembourg has been waiting for. The aircraft had to be written off as a total loss.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ JP airline fleets international, Edition 85; Note: National Airlines had already received a three-digit ICAO code (NAN), but the three-digit code system did not become the official ICAO standard until November 1987. When the company ceased operations in 1985, the official ICAO code was still two-digit (OV).
- ^ A b c Emilio Corsetti III: 35 Miles from Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of Alm Flight 980 . Odyssey Publishing, Lake St. Louis 2008, ISBN 978-0-9778971-0-0 .
- ↑ Planespotters.net, fleet of United Air Carriers Inc. (UACI)
- ↑ United Air Carriers Inc. - Crew Reunion website, description of the photo UACI DC-10
- ↑ Planespotters.net, United Air Carriers Inc., McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30CF (N1035F)
- ^ Flight International, April 28, 1979
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 80
- ^ Flight International, November 1, 1980
- ↑ a b c rzjets.net, National Airlines, Overseas National Airways (1979), United Air Carriers Inc.
- ^ Flight International, May 8, 1982
- ^ Flight International, August 21, 1982
- ^ Flight International, September 4, 1982
- ^ Flight International, October 23, 1982
- ^ Flight International, September 11, 1982
- ^ Flight International, January 7, 1984
- ^ Flight International, March 29, 1986
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 84
- ^ Flight International, March 31, 1984
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, Edition 86
- ↑ Flight International, various years
- ↑ JP airline-fleets international, various years
- ^ Flight International, February 7, 1981