October 1998, UB Group and Air Beach Resorts purchase his equity and rename the company Hummingbird Island Airways, Ltd. HA Chief Pilot Capt. Garth Duncan is named flight operations manager. Services continue employing 1 leased Yakovlev Yak-40, 1 Mil Mi-8 helicopter, 1 float-equipped Cessna 208B Caravan, and 2 float-equipped de Havil-land Canada DHC-6-300s
Just after takeoff from a hotel on Rangali Island on January 26, 1999, the pilot of the Mi-8 hears a loud noise and attempts to turn back. The Russian-made helicopter loses power and ditches into the sea, rolls over, and sinks. Five aboard die.
The company is now reduced in size as the chartered jetliner is returned. Fixed-wing floatplane charters continue and on May 27 the company is renamed Trans Maldivian Airways, Ltd.
HUNGARIAN AVIATION JOINT STOCK COMPANY: Hungary (1922-1928). The HAJSC is formed at Budapest on November 19, 1922. Employing the first of four Fokker F-IIIa, it launches daily service between the capital city and Vienna on July 30, 1923. Budapest to Graz flights also begin.
Seeking independence from the growing German multinational airline groups, the government in 1924 grants exclusive domestic rights to the company, thereby ending competition from the Junkers Trans-Europa Union partner Aero-Express R. T. It also acquires five more Fokker F-IIIas. The next four years are spent building a local system and maintaining the Austrian connection.
Flights continue until the middle of 1928. During these years, the company transports some 10,000 passengers and 1 million kg. of mail and freight over 850,000 km. At this point, the company is reformed as Malert.
HUNGARIAN-UKRAINIAN HEAVY LIFT, LTD.: Hungary, Ukraine (1994-1995). Established in late 1994 as a joint venture allcargo airline, H-U is based at Budapest. Revenue operations commence with 2 Ilyushin Il-76TDs, but last less than a year.
HUNS AIR, LTD.: India (1974-1976). HA is set up at Bombay in late fall 1974 to operate passenger and charter services to the Persian Gulf port of Sharjah. Employing a leased Boeing 707 and two Vickers Viscounts, the company inaugurates revenue services in November, hauling cargo in and contract workers out.
HUNTER AIRWAYS: United States (1932). Organized at Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the first week of January 1932, Hunter employs a Stinson SM-6000B to inaugurate scheduled, multistop passenger service to Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 11.
Just after takeoff from Little Rock on November 25-26, the trimotor, piloted by Kenneth Yoder with one passenger aboard, crashes into the bottoms of the St. Francis River, northeast of Marianna; both are killed. Without an aircraft and or the funds to obtain a replacement, the company is forced to close its doors during the first week in December.
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