Frigorifico Santa Rita

Frigorifico Santa Ria
Curtiss C-46 of Frigo Santa Rita
IATA ICAO Call sign
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Founded1970
Ceased operations
2001
Fleet size2

Frigorifico Santa Rita was a Bolivian Airline based in Sitz in La Paz. The airline predominantly flew air freight but did fly passengers

History

Frigorifico Santa was founded in 1970. It had a unique selling point which was its transport in meat, the airline would usually fly them from smaller airstrips in Bolivia in freezers.[1]

In 2001 the airline had a fleet of two aircraft in its fleet, both of these were the Curtiss C 46 Commando with both being at least 56 years old.

Airstrips

The smaller of the airfields listed above mostly lacked any navigational aids. The majority of the runways were unpaved, short, and often surrounded by obstacles such as trees. This made the approach and especially the takeoff of the heavily laden aircraft challenging, to say the least. Combined with often high temperatures, this led to overall high accident rates in Bolivian air traffic, and Frigorifico Santa Rita was not an execption.

Fleet

Fleet in 2001

The airline in 2001 operated the following aircraft,[2]

Historic fleet

Accidents

  • On June 9, 1975, the left main landing gear and tailwheel of a Frigorífico Santa Rita Curtiss C-46A-40-CU Commando (CP-855) failed to extend during approach, all occupants survived.[3]
  • On February 29, 1992, a Douglas DC-3A CP-529 of Frigorifico Santa Rita was destroyed by a fire at Carolita Ranch in Bolivia.[4]
  • On September 3 1993 a Curtiss C 46 crashed after an engine caught fire.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jennifer M. Gradidge: The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3: The First Seventy Years, Volumes One and Two. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians), 2006, ISBN 0-85130-332-3, S. 162.
  2. ↑ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al.: jp airline-fleets international 2002. Zürich-Airport 2002, S. 737.
  3. ↑ "/aviation-safety.net 329608".
  4. ↑ "CP-529 Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 24 June 2010.
  5. ↑ "aviation-safety.net asndb 325178".


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