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:''This article discusses the helicopter airline, which should not be confused with the 1980s startup airline, New York Air.'' New York Airways was a helicopter airline in the New York City area. Founded in 1949 as a mail and cargo carrier, on July 9, 1953 it may have been the first scheduled helicopter airline to carry passengers in the United States.〔No other helicopter airlines in the world were carrying passengers at that time, but BEA had scheduled passenger flights on S-51s starting in 1950. ''American Aviation'' 1 July 1947 p15 says Skyway was carrying passengers to Boston Airport on S-51s in 1947.〕 Its headquarters were at LaGuardia Airport.〔"World Airline Directory." ''Flight International''. May 3, 1957. (608 ).〕 Although primarily a helicopter airline operator with scheduled passenger operations, New York Airways also flew fixed wing aircraft, being the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter which is a 19-passenger twin turboprop that has STOL capabilities.〔airliners.net, New York Airways DHC-6 Twin Otter photos〕〔timetableimages.com, New York Airways July 7, 1969 system timetable〕 ==History== Passenger flights started with Sikorsky S-55 military helicopters, but Sikorsky and the Boeing Company soon designed civil helicopters. New York Airways added three S-58s to its five S-55s in 1956; in 1958 the Boeing Vertol V-44, a 15-seat civil version of the Piasecki H-21 took over.〔''Aviation Week'' for 9 Jan 1961 says direct operating costs for a Vertol 44 were 31 cents per seat-mile, so with it the airline would need permanent subsidy.〕 In 1962 they transitioned to the tandem rotor, twin turbine engine powered Boeing Vertol 107-II Turbocopter〔''Aviation Week'' for 9 January 1961 says with the Vertol 107 "it will be possible to operate with vertical takeoff capability instead of the takeoff roll necessary with the single-engine piston H-44B. This feature will be of utmost importance in serving community center sites..."〕 and later operated the twin turbine engine Sikorsky S-61. In February 1955 the one way fare from LaGuardia to Idlewild was $4.50. The ship was a Sikorsky H-19, N418A. The trip took ten minutes and their phone number was DEfender 5-6600. The first scheduled passenger flights to Manhattan arrived in December 1956 at the new heliport west of the West Side Highway at 30th St. The downtown heliport on East River Pier 6 opened in 1960 and New York Airways moved all its Manhattan passenger flights down there around December 1960. Due to route restrictions on the single-engine Vertol 44, nonstop flights from Manhattan to Idlewild had to await the twin-engine 107. Moody's says in 1962 the "operating revenue" of $3.9 million included $2.2 million federal subsidy. In June 1964 they had 32 daily flights from JFK to Newark Airport and 33 returning; all flights each way between about 0900 and 1930 stopped at Wall St. The only other flights: 15 round trips a day between JFK and the Port Authority building at the World's Fair (La Guardia was still under construction). Scheduled flights to the top of the Pan Am Building began in December 1965; they ended in 1968, then resumed for a few months in 1977. In April 1966 23 flights a day flew nonstop to Pan Am's terminal at JFK, scheduled 10 minutes; passengers could check in at the Pan Am Building 40 minutes before their scheduled departure out of JFK. The downtown heliport had 13 flights a day to Newark, 5 nonstops to TWA's terminal at JFK and 12 to LGA, all of which continued to JFK. (Downtown had no weekend flights.) Soon after Pan Am Building flights resumed the March 1977 Official Airline Guide (OAG) showed 48 weekday S-61 departures from there: 12 to EWR, 14 to LGA then JFK, and 22 nonstops to JFK. New York Airways employed the first African American airline pilot. Perry H. Young made his historic first flight on February 5, 1957. Young had previously made history as the first African American flight instructor for the United States Army Air Corps. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New York Airways」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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