SEACO AIRLINES: United States (1976-1980). Seaco is established at Detroit during the early fall of 1976 to provide scheduled intrastate passenger and cargo (including mail) services. Employing a Piper PA-23 Aztec and Cessna 402, the company inaugurates daily roundtrips in October, linking its base with Lansing, Traverse City, Oscoda, and Alpena.
Operations continue throughout the remainder of the year and in 1977-1980. Services cease in June of the latter year.
SEAGLE AIR, LTD.: Airport, Trencin, 91104, Slovak Republic; Phone 421 (831) 6587 334; Fax 421 (831) 6587 333; Http://www. seagleair. sk; Year Founded 1995. Seagle Air, Ltd. is established in 1995 to provide lightplane sport and parachute flights at air shows in Slovakia. A flight school is operated and a variety of special contracts are filled, including aerial photography, thermometry and thermography flying, and the towing of advertising banners.
Within three years, the company has grown to a point where a larger aircraft is necessary. To that end, a Let L-410UVP is acquired. In 19982000, the new Let is flown on executive and small group passenger charters. It also drops parachutists and in the evenings operates express flights on behalf of DHL Worldwide Express.
SEAGREEN AIR TRANSPORT, LTD.: P. O. Box 392, V C Bird International Airport, St. John’s, Antigua; Phone 32 (59) 805 325; Fax 32 (59) 804 835; Code ES; Year Founded 1964. Seagreen is established at St. John’s on Antigua in 1964 to offer all-cargo charter flights to various Caribbean destinations. During the next two decades, the company undertakes regular, if nonscheduled, flights connecting its base with Miami, San Juan, Dominica, Montserrat, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martin, and St. Vincent. The fleet in 1982-1986 comprises 1 Convair CV-880CF, 1 Douglas DC-7F, 1 DC-6A, and 2 DC-3s, although the CV-880CF is sold to Haiti Air Freight in 1985.
The company is reorganized in 1987 in order to begin flying worldwide passenger and cargo charters, in addition to maintaining those already underway in the Caribbean. W. Lim is named chairman, R. Koh becomes president, and David Tokoph is named managing director. Additionally, Gary Tokoph is appointed area manager to open a new European base at Ostend, Belgium. Three Boeing 707-336Cs are leased and employed to begin new services from Europe to Caracas, Barbados, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Mexico.
Only one Boeing transport is operated in 1989, but it is traded in during 1990 for three new chartered units, one each B-707-323C, B-707-336C, and B-707-351C. To service the new freighters, a maintenance contract is signed with Royal Jordanian Airlines in May.
A Convair CV-990A Coronado is leased in 1991 and the B-707-323C is placed into storage in 1992. Holiday charters are inaugurated by Chairman W. Lim’s airline in 1993, at which point airline employment is increased from 55 to 63.
David Tokoph is president in 1994, with Gary Tokoph as vice president. Operations continue apace with a fleet that includes 1 each B-707-330B, B-707-336C, and Convair CV-990A.
The B-707-330C is leased to African International Airways, Ltd. in 1995 and the Convair is replaced by one each B-727-30 and B-737-202C. The latter two do not work out and are withdrawn in 1996-2000.
SEAGULLAIR: United States (1988-1989). Seagull Air is founded at Bethel, Alaska, by J. Timothy Cracie in early 1988 to offer scheduled passenger and cargo commuter services to local and regional destinations and bush villages. Revenue Piper and Cessna lightplane flights commence in March, linking the company’s base with Kwigillingok, Kongiganak, Tuntatuliak, and smaller points.
Operations continue apace in 1989; however, several accidents lead the FAA to pull the carrier’s operating certificate and ground it on August 9.
SEAGULLAIR LINES: United States (1929-1930). Seagull is established at Salt Lake City, Utah, in the summer of 1929 to offer scheduled passenger flights to Ely. Employing Curtiss Robins, the new entrant inaugurates service in September and maintains it until November 1930 when economic downturn forces it to shut its doors.
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