The Latin American Aviation Historical Society
Last Updated on May 4, 2022 @ 10:27 PM
Early in 1933, Peru maintained an undeclared conflict with the Republic of Colombia unleashed by the occupation – and later reclaim- by Peruvian militias…
Venezuela had a cargo airline that, by the early 1950s, was among the major players of the industry, and had more aircraft than any…
Born in 1886, and thus more than 60 years old on the eve of what was arguably the greatest adventure of his life, Juan…
Monday August 23, 2021, saw the 91th Anniversary ceremony of Chile’s Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio or MNAE for short (National Aeronautics And…
Under the direction of Juan Pablo Ortega, president of the airline, there is information that in 1959, AVIANCA the main national airline in the…
The prolific author and aero-historian Manuel Ruiz Romero, who passed away in January 2016, published several well illustrated photo essays on early flying, famous…
When I was a kid, we are talking ancient history here, late 1950s and 1960s, every single time that I heard any airplane engine…
This book presents the flight experiences of a Cuban pilot, Colonel Henry Pérez Martínez. It was kindly provided to me by my friend and…
The vast majority of the historical events documented in this website involve stout, built-for-purpose aircraft that most of us recognize and, even though often…
A first shipment of Waco biplanes reached Brazil in 1932, in the form of the small, open cockpit CSO model. This was just in…
Consider this for a moment: Suppose there had been one -just one- trained, dedicated, disciplined observer, on the ground the day that the very…
Airplanes have been used during formal peacetime in terrorist attacks. Even if the scale was small, some dramatic incident had the potential to be…
