: 37 The profitable business soon attracted attention from the Republic of China Government Officials. : 36–37 Its first commercial flight was a shipment of Australian goods. : 29 The company began freight services on 28 January 1946 from Sydney to Shanghai, after Farrell and Russell flew the plane to Australia and obtained a license to carry freight (but not passengers) earlier that month. Farrell purchased the airline's first aircraft, a Douglas DC-3, nicknamed Betsy, at Bush Field, New York City in 1945. Both de Kantzow and Farrell were Ex-Air Force pilots who had flown The Hump, a route over the Himalayan mountains. Buchanan and Russell had already worked for de Kantzow and Farrell at Roy Farrell Import-Export Company, the predecessor of Cathay Pacific, that was initially headquartered in Shanghai. Sydney "Syd" de Kantzow, Roy Farrell, Neil Buchanan, Donald Brittan Evans and Robert "Bob" Stanley Russell were the initial shareholders. Niki, a DC-3 painted to imitate the appearance of the carrier's second aircraft, outside Cathay CityĬathay Pacific Airways was founded on 24 September 1946 in Hong Kong. ![]()
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