ACTA (Aerolineas Carreras Transportes Aereos)

  1959 to March 1970

  Argentina

TYPE: Non-scheduled cargo airline

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HEADQUARTERS: Buenos Aires

FORMER NAMES: Nil

SUBSEQUENT NAMES: Nil

Aerolineas Carreras Transportes Aereos was founded in 1959 by Jose Maria Carrera Saavedra. The operations manager was Jorge Cabaud, while administration of the firm was run by Luis Morao. ACTA was granted a provisional Air Operator Certificate by the Argentinian Civil Aviation Authority in November 1961, and it received its first airplane, a Commando, in early 1962. During February 1963, its only aircraft (LV-HIJ) was used by the United Nationas humanitarian mission in the Congo.

In December 1963, the American Civil Aeronautics Board granted ACTA a three-year permit to carry out flights between Argentina and Miami, FL, with stopovers in Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela. During 1964, the company made biweekly flights from Buenos Aires to Montevideo with a Commando, but these were soon suspended due to low profitability. In April of that same year, an ACTA Commando was lost in an accident over the Cordillera.

In March 1970, with retroactive effect on 8 August 1969, Argentinian authorities ordered the withdrawal of all ACTA concessions due to the company not conducting enough flights and not meeting the requirements set forth in the concessions granted to them.

1959 to 1970

• Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando: LV-JMC