South West African Airways
| South West African Airways (SWAA) | |
|---|---|
| IATA code : | (without) |
| ICAO code : | (without) |
| Call sign : | |
| Founding: | 1930 |
| Operation stopped: | 1935 |
| Seat: |
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| Home airport : | Windhoek |
| Company form: | Ltd. |
| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | national and regional |
| South West African Airways (SWAA) ceased operations in 1935. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
The South West African Airways (SWAA) was the first commercial airline in the then South West Africa - now Namibia - and for operation from 1930 to 1935 some passenger - and airmail lines within the country and in the Union of South Africa (now South Africa ).
history
In 1930 the South African Mandate Administration put out a tender for the establishment of a commercial airline with airmail and passenger services for South West Africa. The Junkers aircraft works from Dessau in the German Reich were awarded the contract . She had previously operated well-known airlines in various other parts of the world. The German plant was now able to gain a foothold in Africa.
Junkers and F. Hoepfner then founded South West African Airways in the same year and in 1932 first opened a weekly airmail line between Windhoek and Kimberley in the South African Union.
The headquarters of the SWAA was in Windhoek, the capital of South West Africa. The corporate colors were red and white and the corporate logo consisted of three stylized airplanes within a circle, viewed from above. As elsewhere in the world, the Junkers aircraft used proved their worth and none of these machines ever crashed at the SWAA, one reason why the corresponding machines and the successor models were flown by South Africa itself later.
SWAA merged with Union Airways (UA) in 1932 , but continued to operate under its own name until it was taken over by the still existing South African Airways (SAA) for 14,000 rand .
fleet
- 2 × Junkers A 50
- 1 × Junkers F 13
See also
literature
- Ben R. Guttery: Encyclopedia of African Airlines , 1998, ISBN 9780786404957 , p. 135.
- John W. Illsley: In Southern Skies: A Pictorial History of Early Aviation in Southern Africa 1816-1940 . Jonathan Ball Publishers , Johannesburg 2003, ISBN 978-1868421688 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SAA Flight News in 2019 & Comprehensive History. SouthAfrica.to. Retrieved August 5, 2019.
