AAXICO Airlines C-46F  N1824M                        (c/n  22446)

                               

                                  AAXICO was founded in 1945 by Howard J. Korth as American Air Export & Import Company.
                                  It operated passenger and cargo charters mainly from New York to Atlantic City until 1956 when
                                  it became a full time freight company.     The corporate name was changed in 1957 to AAXICO
                                  Airlines.  Initially it operated a large fleet of C-46s, and later flew DC-6s.  .  Like many of its ilk,
                                  the C-46F-1-CU above "did the rounds" of the non-skeds in the 1940s, 50s and 60s.  Originally
                                  serialed 44-78623 with the USAAF it went first to Airlift International before being acquired by
                                  AAXICO in 1954.  Bill Larkins shot (above) was taken at Oakland in 1954, the northern Calif-
                                  ornia "home" of scores of non-skeds   . N1824M later passed to Universal Airlines and Capitol
                                  Airways before winding up in Columbia as CP-941.  It was written off while operating with
                                  Trans Aereos Illimani