SCADTA

The Colombian-German Air Transport Company (Spanish: Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transportes Aéreos, German: Deutsch-Kolumbianische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft), or SCADTA, was the world's second airline, and the first airline in the Americas, operating from 1919 until World War II.[2] After the war, SCADTA merged with Colombian regional carrier Colombian Air Service (Spanish: Servicio Aéreo Colombiano), or SACO. Together, SCADTA and SACO formed Avianca - Aerovías Nacionales de Colombia, the Colombian flag-carrier. Avianca still operates to this day and claims SCADTA's history as its own, thus making it the world's second-oldest airline.

SCADTA
(in Spanish) Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transportes Aéreos
(in German) Deutsch-Kolumbianische Luftverkehrsgesellschaft
(in English) Colombian-German Air Transport Company
IATA ICAO Callsign
SCADTA
FoundedDecember 5, 1919
Ceased operations1941 (merged to form Avianca)
HubsVeranillo[1]
Soledad International Airport
Focus citiesTecho International Airport
AlliancePan Am
Fleet sizeSee Avianca
DestinationsSee Avianca
Parent companySCADTA
Headquarters Barranquilla, Colombia
Key peopleErnesto Cortissoz (1st CEO)

After Avianca was purchased by Brazilian entrepreneur German Efromovich's company Synergy Group in 2004, the full name of the company was changed to Airline of the American Continent (Aerovías del Continente Americano), retaining the brand name Avianca.

History
SCADTA Junkers W 34 on the Magdalena River (circa 1920s)

SCADTA started out as a small airmail carrier using Junkers seaplanes capable of landing on Colombia's Magdalena River, mostly since there were very few suitable landing strips in Colombia at the time. The German nationality of some of SCADTA's owners motivated the United States government to subsidize Pan American World Airways' expansion in Latin America under the Hoover administration. SCADTA was barred from operating flights to the United States and the Panama Canal, although it continued to maintain a broad route network throughout the Andean region. The formation of Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra) in the 1930s further eroded SCADTA's position in the market. Prior to World War II, principal shareholder and Austrian industrialist Peter Paul von Bauer was forced by the US and Colombian governments to sell his shares to the Pan American World Airways in an attempt to protect the airline from acquisition by Nazi Germany. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, SCADTA was forced to cease operations and its assets were merged by the Colombian government into the state-owned airline, SACO, forming the modern Colombian national carrier: Avianca.

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See also

References
  1. El primer aeropuerto de Colombia: Veranillo. - elespectador.com, (Spanish)
  2. Brown, Claire (28 July 1998). "National Air and Space Museum Exhibition Examines the Development of Latino Aviation". Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Archived from the original on 8 April 2010. SCADTA Junkers F 13, one of the first commercial airlines in Colombia. SCADTA (now known as AVIANCA) is the oldest, continuously operating airline in the Western Hemisphere.
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