![]() In June 1964 they had 32 daily flights from JFK to Newark Airport and 33 returning all flights each way between about 09 stopped at Wall Street. Moody's says in 1962 the "operating revenue" of $3.9 million included $2.2 million federal subsidy. Due to route restrictions on the single-engine Vertol 44, nonstop flights from Manhattan to Idlewild had to await the twin-engine Boeing Vertol 107. 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. The first scheduled passenger flights to Manhattan arrived in December 1956 at the West 30th Street Heliport. The trip took ten minutes and their phone number was DEfender 5-6600. The aircraft was a Sikorsky H-19, registration number N418A. In February 1955 the one-way fare from LaGuardia to Idlewild was $4.50 ($49 in 2022 dollars). In 1962 they transitioned to the tandem rotor, twin turbine engine powered Boeing Vertol 107-II Turbocopter and later operated the twin turbine engine Sikorsky S-61. Passenger flights started with Sikorsky S-55 helicopters, with three Sikorsky S-58s added 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. ![]() ![]() History New York Airways Boeing Vertol 107-II after landing at JFK Although primarily a helicopter airline operator with scheduled passenger operations, New York Airways also flew fixed wing aircraft, such as the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 19-passenger STOL twin turboprop aircraft. On 9 July 1953 it may have been the first scheduled helicopter airline to carry passengers in the United States, with headquarters at LaGuardia Airport. New York Airways was an American helicopter airline in the New York City area, founded in 1949 as a mail and cargo carrier. ![]()
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