SCADTA
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Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transportes Aéreos (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 with Colombian regional carrier Colombian Air Service (), 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 one of the world's oldest active airlines.
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- Instance of
- business
- Country
- Colombia
- Headquarters
- Barranquilla
- Official website
- scadta.co/colombo-alemana
- Image
- SCADTA (logo).svg
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- Commons category
- SCADTA
- inception
- 1919-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1941-00-00
- replaced by
- Avianca
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Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transportes Aéreos (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 with Colombian regional carrier Colombian Air Service (), 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 one of the world's oldest active airlines.
==History== thumb|left|A SCADTA Junkers W 34 on the [[Magdalena River (circa 1920s)]] thumb|A SCADTA Hangar in Veranillo 1922
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SCADTA” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.