CX-AQO  Vickers 769 Viscount         (c/n  322)

                                    
          
                                      Originally a private company, PLUNA received government subsidies before the war.  However,
                                      a change of government in 1943 saw the end of these subsidies and services were suspended until
                                      after WW II (1945).  Since then he government gradually increased its holding so that by 1951
                                      it was a totally nationalized enterprise.  In 1958, to replace its DC-3s, PLUNA ordered three
                                      Viscounts new from Vickers.  The above shot of the second one was taken in the UK before
                                      delivery, and is courtesy of the Jennifer Gradidge collection      By the 1990s, financial difficulties
                                      saw the airline become almost a subsidiary of Varig, albeit still flying under the PLUNA name,
                                      although by 2006 the Uruguayan Government had repurchased 98% of the stock.
                .