Organized at Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport in early fall 1976, Sovereign acquires a fleet comprising 1 Cessna 401, 1 Piper PA-31-310 Navajo, 1 Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain, 1 Cessna 182, and 1 Beech 55 Baron. Scheduled flights are inaugurated on October 4 to Bendigo, Swan Hill, and Mildura.
Rising fuel prices and traffic failures caused by the world recession force the small commuter carrier into receivership in 1982.
SOWIND AIR, INC.: St. Andrews Airport, St. Andrews, Manitoba, R1A 3P4, Canada; Phone 204 338 5429; Fax 204 338 5431; http:// Www. sae. ca/abt/sowind; Code SOW; Year Founded 1991. Sowind is established at St. Andrews at the end of 1991 to provide scheduled third-level service to six small provincial destinations. Under the direction of President Oliver Owen, the 100%-aboriginally owned carrier launches revenue flights on January 6, 1992.
Service is maintained without incident over the next 9 years employing a fleet that comes to comprise 3 Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftains and 2 Cessna 208B Grand Caravans.
SOYUZ (SOYUZ MPO): Russia (1994-1998). Soyuz is established at Moscow in 1994 to provide international and domestic passenger and freight charters. V. B. Ivanov is appointed general director and he begins revenue services with 3 Ilyushin Il-76s and 1 Yakovlev Yak-40.
Flight continue into the summer of 1998. At this point, the Russian currency crisis has a devastating impact on the carrier’s operations and forces it to shut down.
SP AVIATION (SUPERIOR PERFORMANCE AVIATION): c/o Business Jet Solutions, 26220 Industrial Blvd., Hayward, California 94545, United States; Phone (510) 783-3584; Fax (510) 783-3587; Http://www. shewey. com/spav8r; Year Founded 1992. The fleet management and corporate charter concern SP Aviation is established at Hayward Air Terminal in 1992. Eight years later in 2000, Jeff Perdue is in charge of charter sales and the work of nine pilots who operate a pair of Learjet 35A Century IIIs on worldwide executive flights.
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