Société Générale des Transports Aériens
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| Founded | 8 February 1919 | ||||||
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Commenced operations | 22 March 1919 | ||||||
Ceased operations | 19 May 1933 (merged with Air Orient, Air Union, Aéropostale and CFRNA to form Air France) | ||||||
Operating bases | Toussus-le-Noble, Yvelines, France | ||||||
| Destinations | Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom Brussels Amsterdam Hamburg Copenhagen Berlin Cologne Frankfurt Leipzig Antwerp Ostend and connections to Scandinavia and Russia | ||||||
| Headquarters | 167, rue de Silly, Boulogne-Billancourt and, from 1926, 4, rue Edouard-VII, Paris, France | ||||||
| Key people | Henry, Maurice and Dick FARMAN | ||||||
The Société Générale des Transports Aériens (SGTA) was a French airline founded in 1919. It operated until 1933 when its assets were incorporated in the newly created Air France airline.
History
[edit]Initially known as Lignes Aériennes Farman, was created on February 8, 1919, when a Farman F.60 Goliath flew from Toussus-le-Noble to Kenley, near Croydon. The airline was created by the Farman brothers, who also owned the Farman Aviation Works.
It began a weekly service between Paris and Brussels on 22 March 1919, the world's first international commercial aviation service.[1]
In 1933, all SGTA assets were incorporated in the newly created Air France, and the company ceased to exist.
Accidents and incidents
[edit]- On 5 May 1927, Farman F.60 Goliath registered as F-ADFN was lost in the Atlantic Ocean on a flight from Saint-Louis Senegal to Pernambuco, Brazil. Three crewmen were killed.[2][3]
Aircraft
[edit]The airline operated Farman aircraft exclusively, including these types:
- Farman F.60 Goliath - 12-14 passengers
- Farman F.70 - 4 passengers
- Farman F.121 Jabiru - 9 passengers
- Farman F.170 Jabiru - 8 passengers
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Bartsch, Ronald I. C. (2024). International Aviation Law: A Practical Guide. Taylor & Francis. p. 20. ISBN 978-1-040-14768-9.
The first fixed wing scheduled passenger air service ... was operated by the St Petersberg-Tampa Airboat Line. ... The first regular international passenger air service was a weekly flight between Paris and Brussels which commenced on 22 March 1919. [Operated by] Lignes Aériennes Farman
- ↑ "FRENCH PRE-WAR REGISTER Version 120211" (PDF). Air Britain. Retrieved 8 March 2011.
- ↑ "Accident Farman F.61 Goliath F-ADFN, Thursday 5 May 1927". asn.flightsafety.org. Retrieved 2024-10-28.
Further reading
[edit]- "Farman-S.G.T.A.". Icare magazine (in French) (82).
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