Charlottesville, Virginia, in the late fall of 1982 to offer daily air taxi flights to Charlotte, North Carolina. Employing a Beech 18, roundtrips are inaugurated on December 15, but only continue a few months into 1983.
WASA WINGS, O/Y: Finland (1987-1990). Wasa Wings is established as a Finnish independent in 1987 to offer replacement services over those routes considered to be too lightly traveled to justify regularly scheduled flights by Finnair O/Y and Finnaviation O/Y. A fleet of 2 Beech 99s and 1 Cessna 404 transport a total of 18,000 passengers during the start-up year.
While on final approach to Ilmajoki during a storm on November 14, 1988, the 2 crew and 10 passengers aboard an EMB-110P1 from Helsinki are startled to witness a massive power failure, which puts out all of the lights at the airport. The aircraft now strikes trees 800 m. beside the runway and crashes (6 dead).
Bookings for the year advance to 30,000.
Early in 1989, the third-level operator purchases a CAT 200 modified Beech King Air.
Enplanements remain level at 30,000 and operations cease in 1990.
WASAYA AIRWAYS, LTD.: P. O. Box 308, Pickle Lake, Ontario P0V 3A0, Canada; Phone (807) 928-2244; Fax (807) 928-2595; Http://www. wasaya. com; Code WG; Year Founded 1993. Frank W. Kelner sets up Wasaya at Pickle Lake in 1993 to operate scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services to local and regional destinations. Revenue operations commence with a fleet that includes 1 Cessna 208 Caravan I, 3 C-208Bs, and 5 British Aerospace BAe (HS) 748-2A/Bs.
Two BAes are withdrawn in 1994 as a fourth C-208B is acquired.
Fleet changes continue in 1995 as two C-208Bs are replaced by two Beech Super King Air 200s and a BAe (HS) 748-2BF. The original Cessna 208 is sold in 1996. Service is maintained in 1997-2000, with scheduled flights added in October of the former year.
WASHINGTON AIRLINES: United States (1968-1969). During the summer of 1968, Butler Aviation elects to attempt the establishment of a short landing and takeoff (STOL) service linking Washington, D. C. with Baltimore. Employing a pair of Dornier Do-7 Skyservants, its subsidiary, Washington Airlines, inaugurates daily roundtrips on September 20 linking National Airport and Dulles International Airport with Friendship Airport in Baltimore, Maryland.
Technically, the experiment is a success, but failing to generate significant traffic, it is a commercial failure and shuts down in September 1969.
WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE AIRWAYS: United States (19681970). Washington-Baltimore is set up at Washington, D. C. (DCA) in 1968 to provide scheduled passenger and cargo services to regional destinations. Employing Piper PA-23 Aztecs and Beech B-80 Queenaires, WBA inaugurates daily roundtrips linking the company’s base with Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Reading, Martinsburg, Bristol, Cumberland, Charleston, and Bluefield.
Services are maintained into 1970.
WASP AIRLINES (PTY.), LTD.: Australia (1935-1936). WASP is formed at Sydney in 1935 to offer short-haul services to various destinations from the capital of New South Wales. Equipped with Codock and Monospar ST.10 aircraft, the company undertakes weekly flights to Coon-ambie via Narromine and thrice weekly to Young, Leeton, and Griffith.
As is the case for other pioneer airlines during the Depression, traffic does not allow continue and the carrier ceases operations in July 1936.
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