• or SCADTA, was the world's second airline, and the first airline in Latin America, operating from 1919 until World War II. After the war, SCADTA merged...
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  • since December 5, 1919, when it was initially registered under the name SCADTA. It is headquartered in Colombia, with its registered office in Barranquilla...
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  • 1930 see Category: Airlines by year of establishment Avianca claims all SCADTA history pre-merger as their own, a claim generally accepted. Other airlines...
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    home countries. SCADTA One example of American pressure to "crack down" on immigrants from Axis countries was the SCADTA case. SCADTA was founded in 1919...
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    war with Peru in 1932, President Enrique Olaya Herrera sought the help of SCADTA engineers and pilots to find a suitable site for an airport capable of providing...
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    of the German-owned Colombian air carrier SCADTA, in Central America. Operating in Colombia since 1920, SCADTA lobbied hard for landing rights in the Panama...
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  • Prufurt. Colombia invited Germans who were on the U.S. blacklist to leave. SCADTA, a Colombian-German air transport corporation that was established by German...
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    March 13, 1939 A SCADTA 247D, C-149, crashed near Manzanares, Caldas, Colombia, killing all eight on board. February 27, 1940 A SCADTA 247D, C-140, struck...
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  • including Leo Siegfried Kopp, the founder of the famous Bavaria Brewery. SCADTA, a Colombian-German air transport corporation that was established by German...
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    fell to SCADTA, among these being Soledad International Airport. Soledad Airport soon became the main center of operations and maintenance of SCADTA for their...
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    in 1919 in Austria, Poland and the USA and, in the following years with SCADTA (Colombia) and the United States Post Office Department. John Larsen Aircraft...
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    would later become Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport. Companies like Saco and Scadta from the cities of Barranquilla and Bogotá soon began service. Then, in...
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    and reconnaissance airplanes belonging to the Colombian-German company Scadta, which used to take aerial shots of Colombian and German cities, were also...
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    beginning of commercial aviation activity in the country. In 1930, the SCADTA built another airfield on the island of Manzanillo. By 1940, the company...
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  • international hub in the country from 1936 to 1959. In the early 1930s, SCADTA based its main hub at Veranillo Airport which was a seaplane port on the...
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    RR-5 4-AT-Ds, one each for the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines.  Colombia SACO SCADTA  Canada BYN Co.(British Yukon Navigation Company) CF-AZB flew in the Yukon...
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    Aero Espresso of Italy; Aero Lloyd and Deutsche Luft Hansa of Germany; SCADTA of Colombia; Syndicato Condor of Brazil; Nihon Koku Yuso Kaisha of Japan...
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    Schaefer, Paul Mutter, Hans Himpe, Heinz Kutscha and other German aviators of SCADTA, which later became Avianca, fitted their commercial planes for war as a...
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    Flight Museum in Polk City, Florida, bearing the Osa's Ark paint scheme. A SCADTA (actually Avianca, never was a Pan Am subsidiary) S-38, NC9107, crashed...
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     Brazil Syndicato Condor  Canada Canadian Airways  China Eurasia  Colombia SCADTA One registered as C-33, sold to Colombian Air Force in 1932.  Germany Deutsche...
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    first airline in South America was born in Barranquilla with the name of SCADTA which is today Avianca. The home location of the Kamash indios (hispanized...
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  • SGTA, and Ukrpovitroshliakh, as well as Syndicato Condor from Brazil and SCADTA from Colombia. During that period, the following European destinations saw...
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    Ford Trimotor Medellin, Colombia SACO Trimotor collided with a Trimotor of SCADTA while preparing for takeoff Tom Gastall United States 1956 Major League...
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  • including Leo Siegfried Kopp, the founder of the famous Bavaria Brewery. SCADTA, a Colombian-German air transport corporation which was established by German...
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    Pennsylvania Central (later renamed Capital Airlines) ordered six and SCADTA (Sociedad Colombo-Alemana de Transportes Aéreos), ancestor of Avianca, ordered...
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    Colombia were involved in the air transportation industry as employees of SCADTA, so the United States was concerned that they might be engaged in espionage...
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    respectively. The aircraft were in use of Servicio Aéreo Colombiano - SACO and SCADTA at the time of the accident. Both aircraft were destroyed in the accident...
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  • Cortissoz Alvarez-Correa – Colombian commercial aviation pioneer, founder of SCADTA (now known as Avianca), the oldest still-operating airline in the Americas...
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    construction companies. Aviation was born in Barranquilla with the creation of SCADTA in 1919 a joint venture between Colombians and Germans that delivered mail...
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    Force  China Chinese Nationalist Air Force  Colombia Colombian Air Force SCADTA(Avianca)  Independent State of Croatia Zrakoplovstvo Nezavisne Države Hrvatske...
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