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