Swedish Intercontinental Airlines

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Svensk Interkontinental Lufttrafik AB, SILA, trading internationally as Swedish Intercontinental Airlines, was an airline and is today a part of the SAS Group.

SILA was established in 1943 by the Wallenberg family to start a flight between Sweden and England. The first CEO of the airline was Per Norlin. In 1943, he signed a contract with Douglas to buy 10 DC-4 with delivery when the war had ended.

The first civil flight between Europe and USA was in June 1945 with a modified Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress with stops at Reykjavík and Newfoundland.

During spring 1946, the B-17 was replaced by Douglas DC-4s.

In 1946, SILA became the Swedish part of SAS and in 1948 the airline was merged into AB Aerotransport in 1948. SILA was closed down in 1977.

v t e SAS Group

Subsidiary airlines	Blue1 Scandinavian Airlines

Affiliated airlines	Air Greenland Estonian Air Widerøe

Destinations	SAS Group Air Greenland Blue1 Estonian Air Scandinavian Airlines Widerøe

Fleet	Scandinavian Airlines Widerøe

Airline support	SAS Business Opportunities SAS Cargo Group SAS Ground Handling SAS Technical Services

Alliances	Star Alliance WOW Alliance

History	Pre-1952 Aerolíneas de Baleares Aerotransport Aerovias Guest airBaltic Braathens British Midland International Danish Air Lines Linjeflyg Norwegian Air Lines Rezidor Hotel Group SAS Braathens SAS Commuter SAS Snowflake Scanair Skyways Express Spanair Swedish Intercontinental Airlines Thai Airways International

Flights	Northwood (1948) Flight 871 (1960) Flight 933 (1969) Flight 751 (1991) Flight 347 (1994) Flight 686 (2001) Dash 8 landing gear incidents (2007)

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