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15 March 1957

NEW YORK AIRWAYS, INC.

HELICOPTER LABORATORY


and perishable experimental goods.  During periods of epidemics of a national or local nature special flights are often operated in order to move rapidly vaccine and anti-biotics to the affected areas.)

15. NYA participated with the Port of New York Authority and New York City authorities in establishing a major heliport in the heart of Manhattan.  Standards for design and operation of future facilities of this type are being developed on the basis of experience gathered at this facility.

16. NYA has furnished vital services such as participation in the Civil Defense, military and areonautical research programs of the federal government. (Appointed member National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics each year since 1955.) During the 1955 flood disasters, NYA provided emergency relief operations in Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvannia. In addition to flying many rescue missions in devastated areas and providing isolated communities their only link with the outside world, NYA helicopters flew many hours in the restoration of telephone, power and rail utilities.

17. NYA personnel were sworn in and its fleet and technical facilities became an integral part of the Civil Defense organization in September of 1953.

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