SAVCO

  1971 to 1991*

  Bolivia

TYPE: Cargo airline

IATA/ICAO CODES: Nil

HEADQUARTERS: Unknown

OTHER NAMES: Servicios Aereos Virgen de Copacabana

SUBSEQUENT NAME: Nil

After flying air taxi for many years on a Cessna 310 and later a Rockwell Aero Commander, Captain Rolando decided to start his own airline in 1970. Servicios Aereos Virgen de Copacabana, better known as SAVCO, started operations the following year using two ex American Airlines Douglas DC6s converted for cargo use. Both aircraft were used mainly to transport beef from the Bolivian lowlands around Beni to Cochabamba. Additional beef charters were carried out to Chili.

Captain Rolando sold the company in 1973 to Raul Bedoya, who later added Douglas DC3s and Commandos to the fleet.

November 1971* to April 1975*

SAVCO operated several Commandos, used as meat transports.

• Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando: CP-959
• Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando: CP-1052
• Curtiss C-46D-10-CU Commando: CP-1063 (I)