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Les Avions Bleus

Operator Identification

  1947 to January 1952

  France


TYPE: Airline

IATA/ICAO CODES: -- / ---

HEADQUARTERS: Algiers, French Algeria

OTHER NAMES: Les Avions Bleus Nord-Africains

SUBSEQUENT NAME: Nil

Operator History

Les Avions Bleus was a French passenger & cargo airline based in Algiers and focusing on routes between the French mainland and French Algeria. It initially operated a fleet of four French-made Junkers 52s, locally known as AACs. These were supplemented by two Commandos from 1950. Les Avions Bleus seems to have gone bankrupt on 7 January 1952.

Commando Operations

February 1950 to June 1950

Les Avions Bleus operated one Commando from February 1950, that crashed at Paris le Bourget, France in June 1950.

Commandos Operated

  • Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando: F-BESL

Last edited: 31/03/2021