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NEW YORK AIRWAYS, INC.
POST OFFICE BOX 426
NEW YORK AIRPORT STATION
FLUSHING 71, NEW YORK

DEFENDER 5-6600

OPERATING AUTHORITY
New York Airways is the scheduled helicopter airline serving New York City and the surrounding metropolitan area. Its operating authority is derived from a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity granted by the Civil Aeronautics Board on March 13, 1952, authorizing the company to engage in the transportation of mail, property and passengers by helicopter in the New York City metropolitan area. The route pattern is to be established in cooperation with the Post Office Department.

AREA SERVED
The extent of the area to be served is indicated by the hexagonal white area on the map (see reverse side). It includes the territory between Bridgeport, Connecticut and Trenton, New Jersey, which is the most densely populated region in the United States, has the highest concentration of industrial and commercial activity and generates more air traffic than any other area in the world. New York Airways may operate between any points in this area.

INTER-AIRPORT SHUTTLE
On October 15, 1952, New York Airways, operating 7-passenger Sikorsky S-55's (the largest helicopter presently available for commercial use), inaugurated service on the triangular route between New York City's three principal air terminals - La Guardia, Idlewild and Newark. In April, 1953, inter-airport flights were put on a round-the clock basis hauling air mail and cargo. Limited passenger service between the airports is scheduled to start in the summer of 1953. 

SUBURBAN SERVICE
Service to Bridgeport via several Westchester and Connecticut communities was started in December, 1952, and the company is now hauling mail and cargo over that route on a regular scheduled basis with two round trip flights daily. Operations on routes to Long Island, North and Central New Jersey communities are scheduled to start in June and July of this year.

DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
At the present no landing facilities are available in Manhattan. Negotiations for a Manhattan heliport are currently in progress, however. The company's ability to develop the traffic potential will be greatly enhanced as soon as arrangements for landing sites in Manhattan are completed.

In the immediate future New York Airways proposes to concentrate on mail and cargo service with passenger service limited initially to the inter-airport shuttle. Full exploitation of the passenger potentialities will, to a large extent, await the availability, for commercial use, of the larger type helicopters now being developed for the military services. By the Fall of 1953, however, New York Airways anticipates that it will be serving 43 communities in the New York metropolitan area with mail and cargo services.