Category:Connellan Airways

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Connellan Airways was an airline headquartered in Alice Springs, Australia. It operated scheduled flights as well other air transport services throughout the Northern Territory from 1939 to 1980. The company was founded in 1939 as Survey & Inland Transport and undertook a fortnightly mail run between Alice Springs and Wyndham, Western Australia. He also signed a contract with the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
The company changed name and registered as Connellan Airways on 23 July 1943. In the post-war years Connellan Airways grew, acquiring new routes and equipment and became a regular public transport operator in 1963. The Royal Flying Doctor Service continued to charter Connellan Airways aircraft up to 1965, when it purchased two aircraft from the company, but continued using Connellan pilots until 1973.
In 1970 the company name was changed to Connair. Over the next decade, financial difficulties had to be faced. Subsequently, Connair was sold to East-West-Airlines on 14 March 1980. It went into liquidation shortly after. After the sale, the Connellan Airways Trustnwas set up, using some of the proceeds.

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