Sabena airliners which were augmented and later replaced by Douglas DC-6Bs. The DC-4s also restarted the airline's traditional route to the Belgian Congo. Sabena was the first airline to introduce transatlantic schedules from the north of England, when one of its DC-6Bs inaugurated the Brussels-Manchester-New York route on 28 October 1953. The Convair 240 was introduced in 1949 to partially replace the DC-3s that until then had flown most European services. As of 1956, improved Convair 440 "Metropolitan" twins began replacing the Convair 240 twins and were used successfully well into the 1960s between European regional destinations. In 1957, the long-range
Uganda Airlines of them yielded fatalities. [[Hull-loss]]es are listed below. Uganda, a landlocked country in [[East Africa]], has been without a national airline since 2001, when Uganda Airlines, which was founded in 1976 was liquidated. [[Air Uganda]], a privately owned airline operated between 2007 and 2014. Following studies and wide consultations, the [[Cabinet of Uganda]], opted to re-launch Uganda Airlines, with six new jets, two of which will be the wide-body, long-range [[Airbus A330-800|A330-800]] and the other four being [[CRJ900]] aircraft. The studies recommended an equity investment by the government of approximately US$70 million and loans totaling US$330 million, borrowed from regional