U.S. civilian airline officials reach Paris on survey trip.

U.S. civilian airline officials reach Paris on survey trip. Officials of Trans World Airline of Transcontinental Western Air arrive at Orly airfield near Paris at the end of September 1945, on a preliminary survey flight for the establishment of a regular civilian air service. They travelled in a C-54 transport plane, the first U.S. civilian plane to reach Orly airfield on such a mission. The officials are visiting bases to ascertain facilities available or to be set up. Left to right are: Waldon G. Golien, supervisor of operations, Atlantic Division of TWA; Alvin D. Niemeyer, civil aeronautic authority, who flew as an observer, and Harold F. Blackburn, director of Atlantic Region of TWA.