Connellan Airways

Connellan Airways
Connair
IATA ICAO Callsign
CK[1] — —
Founded1939[2]
Ceased operations1980
(acquired by East-West-Airlines)
Operating basesAlice Springs Airport
HeadquartersAlice Springs, Australia
Key peopleEdward Connellan (founder)
Hangar, Connellan Airways, Alice Springs, 1938 - 1948
A Connellan Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide visiting the Roper River Mission (1948).
A Royal Flying Doctor Service patient is transferred from a Connellan Airways de Havilland Fox Moth to an ambulance (1954).

Connellan Airways (later Connair) was an airline headquartered in Alice Springs, Australia.[3] It operated scheduled flights as well other air transport services throughout the Northern Territory from 1939 to 1980.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b Informationa about Connellan Airways at the Aero Transport Data Bank
  2. ^ "How Airways Served North Australian Outback". Townsville Daily Bulletin. Vol. LXVII. Queensland, Australia. 18 September 1946. p. 8. Retrieved 26 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "World Airline Directory]." Flight International. 28 April 1979. p. 1367. "Head Office: PO Box 1, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia."
  4. ^ Images of Connellan Airways timetables at timetableimages.com