DAT WALLONIE, S. A.: Belgium (1991-1992). DAT Wallonie, also known as Air Meuse, S. A., is established at Brussels National Airport in January 1991 to offer scheduled passenger and cargo services to the
French-speaking southern half of the nation. Ownership is divided between Sabena Belgian World Airlines, S. A. (49%), Meusinvest (25%), the Sabena subsidiary Delta Air Transport, N. V. (16%), and SMAP (10%). Delta’s route network is divided in two in order to provide a market area. Feeder flights for the flag carrier begin in the spring with one each British Aerospace BAe 146-200 and Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia.
Operations continue for a year.
DAVEYAIR SERVICE (PTY.), LTD.: Australia (1958-1982). Davey Air Services (Pty.), Ltd. is formed at Dubbo, New South Wales, in 1958 to offer charter flights from Dubbo to Nyngen and Sydney. In the late 1960s, the company begins to offer scheduled services from Sydney to Nyngen, Bourke, Brewarrina, and Cobar and from Dubbo to Nyngen and Cobar.
The fleet by 1981 comprises 2 Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirantes, 1 de Havilland DH 114 Heron, 1 Piper PA-31-310 Navajo, 1 Piper PA-31350 Navajo Chieftain, and 1 Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche. In 1982, the small commuter airline is purchased by Mascot and merged into New South Wales-based Adved Airlines of Australia (Pty.), Ltd.
DAVIS AIR: 56 Allegheny County Airport, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15122, United States; Phone (412) 469-1700; Fax (412) 4693156; Http://www. flydavis. com; Year Founded 1989. Davis Air is established at Pittsburgh’s Allegheny County Airport in 1989 to offer passenger charters to regional and international destinations. By 1994, Vice President Greg Wagner employs 10 full-time and 2 part-time pilots who operate 1 Beech 90 King Air and 2 each Gates Learjet 25Ds and Learjet 35As.
Six years later, the Pittsburgh fleet is altered to include 1 Learjet 25D and Learjet 35A, 1 Cessna 550 Citation II, and 1 Beech Super King Air 200. Davis also stations 1 Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain at Du Bois-Jefferson County Airport.
DAVIS AIR LINES: United States (1930). Another new entrant formed during the Great Depression, Davis is set up at Atlanta in early 1930 to offer regularly scheduled passenger service to Birmingham, Alabama. Employing a Travel Air 4000, the carrier inaugurates flights in February. Traffic between the two southern cities is insufficient to justify continuing the operation beyond June.
DAVIS AIRLINES: United States (1949-1977). Davis Airlines is formed at College Station and Bryan, Texas, in late fall 1965 as the scheduled air transport division of Davis Aviation, which had been founded by L. Thomas Davis in 1949. Piper PA-32 Cherokee Sixes and Beech 18s are acquired and regularly scheduled daily roundtrip commuter flights to Dallas and Houston begin on December 15.
Operations are maintained until the carrier is purchased by and merged into Rio Airways on December 1, 1977.
DAWN AIR: United States (1991-1992). Dawn Air is established at Manteo, North Carolina, in early spring 1991 to fly charter and scheduled services employing a single Piper PA-31-310 Navajo. On May 1, scheduled flights begin to Norfolk, Virginia; later in the summer, two additional flights are added on Friday and one on Sunday.
Unable to achieve economic viability, the tiny commuter folds before its first birthday.
DAY AIRWAYS, LTD.: P. O. Box 965, Haliburton, Ontario, K0M 1S0, Canada; Phone (705) 201-2840; Http://www. inter-pc. com/user/ wjrivers/day-air/welcome. htm; Year Founded 1980. Barry Day establishes this small nonscheduled operation at Mountain Lake, near Minden, in 1980. Employing a float-equipped Cessna 180, Day operates passenger and cargo charters to Toronto Harbor—occasionally flying all the way to the U. S.—flight-seeing, air ambulance, and aerial photography flights, as well as fishing, canoeing, and remote camping services.
Operations continue without change over the next 20 years.
DAYAJASA TRANSINDO PRATAMA: Halim Perdana Kusuma Airport, Jakarta, 13610, Indonesia; Phone 62 (21) 800-2427; Fax 62 (21) 8-0-7227; Http://www. guides. com/acg/transindo; Year Founded 1990. Transindo is set up at Jakarta in 1990 to provide executive and small group passenger charters throughout the nation and Southeast Asia. Revenue flights begin, and continue, with a fleet of 2 Grumman G-1159 Gulfstreams and 3 British Aerospace BAe (HS) 125 Hawkers.
DB AVIATION: 3800 N. McAree Road, Waukegan, Illinois, 60087, United States; Phone (847) 263-5600; Fax (847) 263-6486; http:// Www. privatejet. com; Year Founded 1989. DB Aviation is established as an FBO at Waukegan in 1989. Over the next decade, it also becomes a major worldwide corporate, executive, and small group passenger charter operator. In 1999-2000, the company employs 20 pilots (more than some small scheduled airlines) and operates from 4 Midwestern bases.
From the company’s home field, DB operates 2 each Dassault Falcon 20s and Cessna 550 Citation IIs and 1 each C-525 Citation I, C-650 Citation III, Learjet 55 Longhorn, Dassault Falcon 900B, British Aerospace BAe (HS) 125-700 Hawker, Cessna 208 Caravan I, and Grumman 690 Turbo Commander.
A Citation III is stationed at Palwaukee Municipal Airport at Wheeling, Illinois; a Falcon 20 is operated from Chicago (MDW); and a Citation I is flown from Milwaukee.
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