Crescent Air Transport dba Pak Airways

  1949 to 1952

  Pakistan

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TYPE: airline

IATA/ICAO CODES: Nil

HEADQUARTERS: Unknown

FORMER NAME: Nil

SUBSEQUENT NAME: Orient Airways (merged 1953)

Crescent Air Transport was founded as a non-scheduled airline in 1949 by Pakistani entrepreneur Yusuf Haroon. It also conducted scheduled flights as Pak Airways, competing with the national airline Orient Airways. After a series of crashes, the company merged into Orient on 1 October 1953, before the latter was nationalized to form Pakistan International Airways Corporation (PIAC).

August 1950* to September 1951*

• Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando: AP-ADU