Starways

Starways
Starways DC-3 , Liverpool 1964
IATA code :	(without)
ICAO code :
Call sign :
Founding:	1948
Operation stopped:	1963
Seat:	Liverpool
Home airport :	Liverpool
Fleet size:	7th
Aims:	national, international
Starways ceased operations in 1963. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Starways was a British airline with seat in Liverpool , which existed from 1948 to 1964.

history

Starways DC-4, Liverpool 1st January 1964

Starways Viscount 707, Liverpool 1st January 1964

Starways was founded on December 7, 1948 and began operating from Blackpool Airport in January 1949 . In 1950, Starways moved its base to Liverpool Airport .

A first Douglas DC-3 was procured in October 1950 and immediately used on a charter flight to Karachi (Pakistan).

In the beginning, the company mostly flew newspapers and mail. Later charter flights with cargo and passengers were added, from 1953 on scheduled domestic flights (Liverpool - Isle of Man ) and international charter flights. Starways flew to various destinations across Europe as well as to Lebanon , Saudi Arabia and Kuwait .

In 1957 the first of six Douglas DC-4s were purchased , and in February 1961 the first of two Vickers Viscount 700 series.

Its own flight operations ceased on December 31, 1963 and Starways became a part of British Eagle . On September 1, 1964, the name was finally changed to British Eagle (Liverpool).

fleet

Starways operated, among others, the following types of aircraft:

• Oyster v
• Avro Anson
• De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide
• Douglas DC-3 / C-47
• Douglas DC-4
• Miles Gemini
• Vickers Viscount 700

Incidents

Three incidents with total loss of the aircraft occurred at Starways:

• On March 28, 1956, a Douglas DC-3 (C-47B) ( aircraft registration G-AMRB ) flew straight into a mountain while approaching Glasgow Airport . One of the three crew members was killed.

• On September 16, 1961, a Douglas DC-4 (C-54D) (registration G-APIN ) was destroyed on the ground by Katangian fighter aircraft of the type Fouga Magister . The aircraft was parked at Kamina Airport in the Belgian Congo .

• On September 19, 1961 was 4 DC (mark with a Douglas G-ARJY) to a belly landing near the Dublin airport . All 73 occupants survived, but the aircraft had to be scrapped.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Europe)

literature

• Tony Merton Jones: British Independent Airline since 1946, Vol. 4 . Merseyside Aviation Society & LAAS International, Liverpool & Uxbridge 1977, ISBN 0-902420-10-0 .
• Maurice J. Wickstead: Airlines of the British Isles since 1919 . Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., Staplefield, W Sussex 2014, ISBN 978-0-85130-456-4 .

Web links

Commons : Starways  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wickstead 2014, p. 395.
2. ↑ Merton Jones 1977, p. 433.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wickstead 2014, p. 396.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Merton Jones 1977, p. 435.
5. ↑ Accident statistics , Aviation Safety Network, accessed on July 9, 2017.
6. ^ Accident report DC-3 G-AMRB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 9, 2017.
7. ^ Accident report DC-4 G-APIN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 9, 2017.
8. ^ Accident report DC-4 G-ARJY , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 9, 2017.