Connellan Airways

Connellan Airways (later Connair) was an airline headquartered in Alice Springs, Australia.

[1][4] The company was founded in 1939 as Survey & Inland Transport by Edward Connellan, an aviation pioneer.

[1] In 1938, Connellan had conducted two aerial surveys of the Northern Territory, and after discussion with John McEwen, the then responsible Federal Minister, undertook a fortnightly mail run between Alice Springs and Wyndham, Western Australia.

Subsequently, Connair was sold to East-West-Airlines on 14 March 1980 and renamed to Northern Airlines;[6] it went into liquidation in 1981.

The Central Australia Aviation Museum is located in the original Connellan Airways Hangar.

Hangar, Connellan Airways, Alice Springs, 1938 - 1948
Percival Gull aeroplane VH-ACM outside Connellan Airways hangar, c1940s
A Connellan Airways de Havilland Dragon Rapide visiting the Roper River Mission (1948).
A Royal Flying Doctor Service patient is transferred from a Connellan Airways de Havilland Fox Moth to an ambulance (1954).