Australian National Airways, Ltd. (ANA) was a short-lived Australian airline, founded on 3 January 1929byCharles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm.[1]
Australian National Airways Limited (A.N.A.) hangar, Kingsford Smith Airport, Mascot
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| Founded | 1929 |
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| Commenced operations | January 1930 |
| Ceased operations | 1931 |
| Fleet size | See Aircraft below |
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ANA began scheduled services on 1 January 1930.[2] It owned five Avro 618 Tens,[1] that were British license-built versions of Kingsford Smith and Ulm's famous Fokker VII/3m Southern Cross, which also flew as an ANA aircraft although was not owned by it.
The company operated a regular passenger and airmail service between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne that was in January 1931 extended to Launceston and HobartinTasmania.[3] Unable to obtain a formal mail subsidy, the deepening Great Depression saw revenues fall, a situation that worsened after the crash of VH-UMF Southern Cloud in the Australian Alps between Sydney and Melbourne on 21 March 1931. ANA ceased scheduled services at the end of June 1931,[4] although it continued to operate joy flights mostly around New South Wales,[5] and offered pilot training services with a fleet of small aircraft.[6]
Late in 1931 ANA attempted to open an Australia-England airmail service with a special Christmas airmail flight that was interrupted by the crash of VH-UNA Southern SuninMalaya. After lengthy efforts to interest the Australian Government in subsidising a regular Australia-UK airmail service failed, ANA went into voluntary liquidation in April 1933, and its remaining assets were sold off.[7]
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