California-Manila flight gave Philippines first postwar commercial air link with U.S. mainland

Contract with Philippine Air Lines to operate international service to the U.S. and Europe

Extended PAL California-Manila international service to Shanghai, re- establishing an important trade route to expedite recovery of the Philippines

Taloa Academy of Aeronautics established to meet GI and civilian need for airline pilot and air crew training

Established operations and maintenance base at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, to supply Oakland base, and expanded exploratory and supplementary commercial operations to Atlantic and Europe

Made emergency flights from California to London and Paris transporting food and clothing to the needy of Europe

Transported 600 college students from the U.S. to Europe and return on foreign vacation trips, the first transatlantic aircoach service

Transported 800 deep sea fishermen from California and Washington, to Naknek, Alaska

Transocean was the first airline to conceive of the idea and inaugurate California-Hawaii air tourist common carrier service. Later, other airlines and travel agencies also began booking group tours to the Hawaiian Islands

Pioneered mass air transportation of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims participating in the Moslem hajj traveling to Jeddah

Established operations and maintenance bases at Wake Island and Guam to handle its expanding commercial operations

Inaugurated twice weekly refugee service between  Rome and Caracas, Venezuela

Entered into interline traffic exchange and ticketing agreements with major U.S. and foreign scheduled air carriers Established Air Jordan-national carrier for the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Initial stage of Trust Territory operation to provide scheduled air service to the Marshall, Marianas, and Caroline Islands of the Pacific under the auspices of the United Nations and the Department of Interior.  Transocean continued to serve the people of Micronesia until 1960

Established division in the Middle East aimed to develop aviation in area

Contract to establish Pakistani domestic and  international airline services for Pak-Air, Ltd.

Expanded commercial operations in Pacific and Atlantic to 2,134,644 revenue miles, 60,504,124 passenger miles, and 752,032 cargo ton miles-72 percent of total operations for the year

First TAL aircraft encircled the globe in March 1949. On board were Orvis Nelson and a crew of eleven. Aircraft left Oakland, proceeded to Bradley Field, Gander, Shannon, Frankfurt, Rome, Damascus, Syria, Karachi, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Okinawa, Tokyo, Guam, Wake, Honolulu, and back to TAL headquarters at Oakland. Total flying time: 94 firs 55 min

Start of the Korean Airlift. Commercial operations limited to meet travel emergencies. 35 to 40 monthly California Japan flights, supplying 11 percent of the total lift provided by scheduled and irregular carriers combined

Korean Airlift continued occupying most of TAL capacity

Inauguration of domestic service in Japan for Japan Air Lines under joint contract with JAL and Northwest Airlines

Carried 1,500 fishermen from California to Alaska

 Korean Airlift continued. Commercial operations limited to special emergency flights

Later in year inaugurated U.S.-Europe cargo service under contract with Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)

Modified and delivered a fleet of five DC-4 aircraft to Saudi Arabia, including one aircraft with a built-in throne for use of King Ibn Saud

With declining military airlift needs, TAL again focused attention on commercial services Inaugurated low-cost tour service U.S.-Hawaii

Contracted with government of Afghanistan to establish and operate commercial air service between Kabul and Cairo

Taloa Academy of Aeronautics trained twelve Japanese airmen for service on Japan's domestic airline

Contracted with Iranian government for management and operations of Iranian Air Lines

Inaugurated international service, Tokyo-San Francisco for Japan Air Lines

Taloa Academy of Aeronautics expanded commercial training of airmen to meet demand of returning Korean War GI's. In six years the school trained 1,400 students from ten nations

Research division developed system of external aircraft warning lights to meet air transportation industry emergency

Trained and licensed pilots for Lufthansa, the German airline

Contracted with United Air Lines for major overhaul of' DC-3 fleet, over 18 months

Designed and constructed DC-4 simulator for crew training, the first such safety device to be built by an airline

Thousands of monkeys carried from Manila and India to the U.S. in support of Anti-Polio Salk Vaccine Program

Taloa Academy of Aeronautics introduced new training courses to train private and executive pilots for winter flying 

Contract to supply navigators for Lufthansa's transatlantic service

 By its tenth birthday, Transocean had flown more than one billion passenger miles and eighty-five million cargo ton-miles

Taloa Academy of Aeronautics' DC-4 flight simulator used by MGM for the filming of scenes for Julie, starring Doris Day. The simulator was built by the company for its flight safety program and the cockpit interior was completely authentic

Renewed contract to provide airlift and mercy  service in the nearly 3,000,000 square mile Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, a service the company had rendered with distinction for the previous five years

August 1955 to August 1956, major overhaul  successfully completed on twenty-one United Air Lines DC-3s

Performed major reconstruction on the Braathens airline DC-4s and performed major overhaul of DC-4s for Thai Airways

Inaugurated Honolulu and Pacific Islands flights as a supplemental carrier in accordance with a  ublished schedule. (Transocean was the first airline to introduce the term supplemental, later adopted by the CAB which
cynically spurned the very carrier that had generated the idea)

 Provided transatlantic services on the Hungarian Airlift and laid plans for tourist charter service to Europe

Established Orient tour program patterned after Honolulu tour operation

U.S. Army, 2,700 military dependents Germany-United States

U.S. Army, 700 military dependents Seattle-Tokyo

International Refugee Organization of United Nations, 25,000 war refugees Munich to Caracas, Venezuela

USAF, 100 transatlantic flights, United States-Europe, in support of the Berlin Airlift

150 C-46 aircraft ferry, United States-China

13,000 International Refugee Organization evacuees from Shanghai

Stratocruisers flew scheduled airline service Oakland-Honolulu-Wake-Guam-Okinawa

 Transocean employees at Guam continued the Trust Territory operation until the end of the contract in July 1960

Flight Enterprises, Inc., continued operations on the East coast until approximately 1963

Aircraft Engineering and Maintenance Company  continued operations under auspices of Atlas Corporation until 1964