ANGELES FLYING SERVICE: United States (1964-1967)

Founded by Bill Fairchild at Port Angeles, Washington, during the summer of 1964, AFS is equipped with a variety of small aircraft, including Piper PA-23 Aztecs and a Beech 18. Scheduled passenger service is inaugurated to Seattle on September 8 and is continued until the company is acquired by Puget Sound Airlines on August 28, 1967.

ANGLIAN AIR CHARTER, LTD.: United Kingdom (19501970). This air taxi firm is founded at the North Denes airfield, near Great Yarmouth, in 1950 to offer pleasure and charter flights. An Auster 5 is acquired in early 1951 allowing operations to begin. Another Auster 5 is acquired in 1956. Operations continue apace during the remainder of the decade.

The first Auster is sold in 1961 and the second is lost in a crash at Gorleston, in Norfolk, on September 9, 1962. Auster J/1N and J/5G Autocars are added in 1963 and 1964.

Two Cessna 170s are acquired in 1969 as the company begins charter support of the North Sea oil industry. A Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander is purchased in March 1970. On August 1, the company joins in a merger with RigAir, Ltd. and Norfolk Airways, Ltd. to form Air Anglia, Ltd.

ANGLO CARGO (ANGLO AIRLINES, LTD.): United Kingdom (1983-1992). Organized by Terry Oldham, former British Island Airways, Ltd. joint managing director, and his wife Maggie at London (LGW) in late 1983, Anglo Cargo is equipped with a Boeing 707F purchased from British Caledonian Airways, Ltd. (BCAL). Terry names himself chairman with Maggie as managing director, one of the few female airline managing directors in the world.

Revenue, freight, and contract air service flights begin in January 1984 linking the company’s base, on behalf of ZAS Airline of Egypt, with destinations in Africa and the Middle East. Tobacco is the first cargo.

Late in the decade, two B-707-338Cs are acquired from Qantas Airways (Pty.), Ltd. and a British Aerospace BAe-111-487GK, the only one of its kind ever built as a freighter, is leased from the Romanian carrier Tarom (Transporturile Aeriene Romane). Monarch Airlines, Ltd. is contracted to provide maintenance support at Luton Airport.

In late 1990, the two Boeing 707-338Cs are withdrawn and replaced by a B-757-200F leased from Ansett World Aviation Services.

Anglo Cargo provides freight assistance to the allies during both Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm.

A weekly general cargo service is undertaken to Accra, Ghana, from early 1991. In recognition of its Gulf War service, the company is honored with an invitation to the International Air Tatoo at Fairford, U. K. during July.

Unable to make a profit and incurring increasing expenses in a recessionary period, the 82-employee carrier closes its doors in January 1992.

ANGLO-NORMANDY AIRWAYS, LTD.: United Kingdom (1973-1979). The air taxi and charter operator Anglo-Normandy Airways, Ltd. is formed on Guernsey, Channel Islands, by N. Stevens and J. Smith on January 9, 1973. With a Piper PA-23 Apache leased from Channel Aviation, Ltd., the company begins flight operations on January 12. The first owned aircraft, a Piper PA-23 Aztec is delivered in March, but does not begin revenue flights until June 5. Meanwhile, two Aztecs leased from Spooner Aviation, Ltd. are used for interisland flights.

A variety of charter missions are now undertaken to both southern England and northern France. Between April and August 1974, three more Aztecs come on line and charters resume. While ferrying back a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain from New Zealand in August, cofounder N. Stevens is killed when the aircraft crashes. The tragedy forces the carrier to cease flying; J. Smith sells the assets to J. S. Hamilton and Thomas R. Miller.

Hamilton and Miller reform Anglo-Normandy Airways, Ltd. on January 9, 1975, renaming it Anglo-Normandy Aviation, Ltd. Flights are resumed with two Piper Aztecs and that number steadily grows over the next four years.

In 1979, Sir Derek Bailey sells Aurigny Air Services, Ltd., to Anglo-Normandy Aviation, which allows the larger scheduled carrier to retain its previous identity and maintain its administrative headquarters on Aldernay. A subsidiary, Anglo-Normandy Aeroengineering, Ltd., is formed to take over company maintenance needs and additional revenue options remain available as Anglo-Normandy Aztecs fly contract/char-ter flights over the next 15 years.