LV-ADD Douglas
DC-3CS1C3G
(c/n 19545)
Aeroposta Argentina was formed as far back as September 1927 when
Marcel Bouilloux-
Lafont, a French industrialist with a transportation empire in South
America acquired mail
rights in Brazil,
Venezuela and Argentina. Early routes were flown by
French registered
Latecoeres
from Buenos Aires to Natal in Brazil, whereupon mail was shipped to
Dakar
in French
Equatorial Africa and thence on to Europe. Over the years the
airline expanded,
and
routes all the way to Rio Grande at the extreme south of Patagonia and
also to Chile
and Paraguay
were established. In 1946 Argentina airline routes were split
into zonal areas
and
LV-ADD went to the northern zoned airline, ZONDA. By 1949
Argentine nationalized
the
airlines and Aeropostal was absorbed into Aerolineas Argentinas.
LV-ADD, seen above
in a
Canadair picture just after its civlianization from a C-47A-30-DO, was
originally delivered
in 1946.
It was written off in sort sort of accident at General
Pacheco Airport, BA in July
1949
before it could be amalgamated into the AA fleet.