MacRobertson Miller Airlines
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| Founded | 1927 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | See Aircraft below | ||||||
| Parent company | Ansett Transport Industries | ||||||
| Headquarters | Perth, Western Australia, Australia | ||||||
| Key people | Horrie Miller; Macpherson Robertson | ||||||
MacRobertson Miller Airlines Ltd. (MMA), callsign "Miller", IATA code "MV", was established in Australia in late 1927, by pilot Horrie Miller with the backing of chocolate millionaire Sir Macpherson Robertson.
The airline's initial services were between Adelaide and Broken Hill. The airline grew rapidly and in 1934 transferred its main base to Perth, after winning a Commonwealth Government contract for air services to the North-West of Western Australia and the Northern Territory. The airline has had to endure hardship and cope with long distances in the vast state of Western Australia.
Early aircraft used by the airline included Avro Ansons, de Havilland DH.84 Dragons, Lockheed Model 10 Electras and Douglas DC-3s. Later aircraft included the Fokker F27 turboprop, a leased Vickers Viscount turboprop, a Douglas DC-9 twinjet leased from Ansett, Piaggios, de Havilland of Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter STOL turboprops, Fokker F28 (both 1000 and 4000 series twinjets) and British Aerospace BAe 146 jet aircraft. The airline's Fokkers were amongst the hardest working in the world with some of the highest utilisation rates in the world. MMA's F28s flew the world's longest twinjet route at one stage, and certainly the world's longest F28 flight, Perth to Kununurra. MMA also flew the world's shortest scheduled air service, from Perth to Rottnest Island flying the Douglas DC-3 and later the Fokker F-27 Friendship turboprop airliner. MMA's first F28 was actually leased from Braathens SAFE of Norway (VH-MMJ c/n 11013) and returned to Fokker as PH-ZAH after the first of the ordered aircraft arrived. VH-FKD was originally purchased for Ansett division Airlines of New South Wales but transferred to MMA when it proved uneconomical on the NSW intrastate routes. Ironically this aircraft returned to Airlines of New South Wales service decades later.
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