Tasmanian Airways
Tasmanian Airways Pty. Ltd. was a Hobart, Tasmania-based company registered on 10 December 1926 with the intention of operating aerial services between Tasmania and Victoria.
History[edit]
Its main proprietor was F. F. De Mey, who was also proprietor of Tasmanian Motor Service Co. Pty. Ltd. and President of the Commercial Motor Users Association of Tasmania.[1] Two years later it proposed to open a Bass Strait service using a three-engine floatplane (possibly an Avro 618 Ten).[2] It failed attract sufficient capital, but in 1929 chartered a De Havilland Gipsy Moth for a promotional flight from Adelaide to Brisbane.[3] Early in 1934 it acquired a De Havilland Hawk Moth VH-UNW from the Hart Aircraft Service.[4] Renamed City of Hobart, this aircraft was initially used for joy flights out of Brighton, Tasmania but from August 1934 operated a regular passenger service between Brighton and Launceston, Tasmania connecting with Tasmanian Aerial Service's Launceston-Bass Strait Islands-Melbourne services. These ceased on 10 January 1935, after a piston-rod failure damaged City of Hobart 's engine beyond repair and resulted in a forced landing at Brighton. The engineless aircraft was sold in mid-1936, and the company was later liquidated.[5]
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References[edit]
- ^ The Mercury, 31 December 1926
- ^ The Mercury, 23 October 1928
- ^ Brisbane Courier, 19 September 1928, The Mercury, 23 October 1928
- ^ "Strait Air Service". The Herald. 20 March 1934.
- ^ The Mercury, 12 January 1935, The Examiner, 1 August 1934, 28 November 1936.
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