Filipinas Orient Airways, Inc. was an airline founded by the originally Lebanese refugee family Karam (later Caram) in the

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in 1964, under Republic Act No. 4147. FOA was granted the franchise to provide air transport service in the Philippines and between the Philippines and other countries on June 20, 1964, despite legal opposition by

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. The company slogan was ''The Nation's Flag Carrier.''

Service

Filipinas Orient Airways Caravelle Volpati

FOA—also known as "Fairways"—started their domestic flight operations in the

on January 5, 1965, using DC-3 aircraf

Their early days appear to have been crash-ridden with the loss of four DC-3 and one DC-6 within the first 4 years of operation. They went on to operate

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and Nord 262, later to be replaced by

NAMC YS-11 The NAMC YS-11 is a turboprop airliner designed and built by the Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation (NAMC), a Japanese consortium. It was the only post-war airliner to be wholly designed and manufactured in Japan until the development of t ...

. Their flight operations were ended after the declaration of

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by then Philippine President

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on September 21, 1972.

eventually took over the planes and routes of FOA.

Fleet

* Douglas DC-3A *

* Nord 262

Destinations

Accidents and incidents

On April 23, 1969, Douglas DC-3A PI-C947 was damaged beyond economic repair in a landing accident at Roxas City Airport. All 31 passengers and crew survived.

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