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The company AEROTAXI S.A. was founded on August 16, 1948 at the initiative of the AVIANCA management group and was established as a subsidiary, in order to provide air service to the most remote communities of the Eastern Plains, the Savannahs of Bolívar and the Valle del Cauca. Its objective was to incorporate into AVIANCA's national air network the aforementioned regions and centers of growing development, which did not have airfields or landing strips that were safe enough for the operation of DC-3 planes and the like. The two Noorduyn Norseman. (One of them, the HK-710 crashed on December 6 in Caldas), they were replaced by a fleet of 14 de Havilland Canada Beaver. These Canadian single-engines were the most suitable of all models on the market and had been designed at the end of World War II for military logistics transport or a total of 7 passengers and small amounts of parcels and mail.
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