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Charqueada Santa Maria do Araguaia

Operator Identification

  Unknown dates

  Brazil


TYPE: Meat carrier

IATA/ICAO CODES: -- / ---

HEADQUARTERS: Araguacema, Brazil

FORMER NAME: Nil

SUBSEQUENT NAME: Nil

Operator History

Charqueada Santa Maria do Araguaia was a slaughterhouse based in Araguacema, in the Tocantins state of Brazil. An airfield was built there in 1947 on the initiative of businessman Oscar Steiner, who engaged in the carriage of beef to Belem. After the crash of his Commando PP-DKF on 5 May 1949 killed Salomao Solino, the owner of the slaughterhouse, it seems that the slaughterhouse subsequently purchased its own aircraft to carry the meat to various urban centers of the Brazilian Amazon.

Commando Operations

May 1957* to July 1968*

Charqueada operated 2 Commandos registered as private aircraft. It also briefly operated a third Commando leased from TAN.

Commandos Operated

  • Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando: PT-AXV
  • Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando: PT-AYA
  • Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando: PP-SLK (leased)

Last edited: 21/08/2023