Tasmanian Airways

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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.

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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

  1. ↑ The Mercury, 31 December 1926
  2. ↑ The Mercury , 23 October 1928
  3. ↑ Brisbane Courier, 19 September 1928, The Mercury, 23 October 1928
  4. ↑ "Strait Air Service". The Herald. 20 March 1934.
  5. ↑ The Mercury, 12 January 1935, The Examiner , 1 August 1934, 28 November 1936.


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