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Over one million pounds of air express was carried, and more than half a million pounds of air freight. During the year, the airline carried its twenty millionth pound of air mail.

New York Airways established the world's first scheduled helicopter passenger service in 1953 when it started operations with a fleet of five five-passenger rotary-winged craft. During the first year of operations it carried a few less than four thousand passengers. 

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