The following is a list of civil and military operators of the de Havilland Comet since its introduction in 1952. Civilian Argentina Aerolíneas Argentinas ordered six Comet 4s in 1958 and they were delivered in 1959 and 1960, with a service introduction on 16 April 1959, between Buenos Aires and Santiago, Chile. Due to the loss of three aircraft, a replacement Comet 4C was bought in 1962. After being moved from international flights to domestic flights from 1966, the survivors were retired and sold to Dan-Air in 1971. Australia Qantas Empire Airways leased seven different Comet 4 aircraft in the early 1960s mainly to operate the Sydney to Singapore route. Canada Canadian Pacific Airlines ultimately had none in operation. One Comet 1A aircraft crashed on delivery and another was cancelled. Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Central Africa Federation) Central African Airways operated weekly Salisbury to London services using wet leased BOAC Comets during the early 1960s East African Community (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania) East African Airways acquired three Comet 4s in 1960/62 and operated them on services to Europe for the next decade. They also chartered an additional Comet 4 from BOAC/Dan Air during 1965/66, and an additional three (consecutively) on short-term charters during 1970/71, by which time the Comets were being used for inter-African services. Ecuador AREA Ecuador had one Comet 4 delivered in 1966 that was used on services between Quito and Miami. In 1968, the aircraft was impounded at Miami and remained under legal custody until scrapped in 1978. Egypt Misrair had two new Comet 4C delivered in 1960. The airline became United Arab Airlines in 1960, which took delivery of seven more Comet 4Cs over the course of the 1960s. Upon the transformation of United Arab Airlines into EgyptAir in 1971, four of these aircraft were inherited by the new airline; they were all sold off over the course of the 1970s. France Air France operated three new Comet 1As briefly in the 1950s before they were withdrawn. Union Aéromaritime de Transport operated three new Comet 1As briefly in the 1950s, one was destroyed and two were withdrawn from service. Greece Olympic Airways had four new Comet 4Bs delivered in 1960, operated in a pooling arrangement with BEA. Indonesia Merpati Nusantara Airlines had a Comet 2 in 1972. Kuwait Kuwait Airways operated one second-hand Comet 4 and two new Comet 4Cs in the 1960s. Lebanon Middle