1948 Taking to the skies

Corporate
Aviation
Betsy, 1947
Betsy, 1983
Cathay Pacific’s printed advertisement in 1950s
The Beatles arrived in Hong Kong on a Cathay Pacific Convair 880-M in 1966.

Swire acquired a 45% shareholding in a local airline, Cathay Pacific Airways. By this time, the airline had grown from its original single US Army surplus DC3 (“Dakota”), “Betsy”, to a fleet of six DC3s and a Catalina flying boat. The growth of Hong Kong's airline was to become Jock Swire's special pride.

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