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1950 Catalina PBY-5A.
"That year Avianca had its Catalinas based in Medellin, from where they covered mostly river routes. That plane also flew to Barranquilla from Medellin as a complementary service to the DC-3, only unlike the Douglas, it turned around the Magdalena River, making stops in Nare, Puerto Berrío, Barrancabermeja, Puerto Wilches, Simití, Gamarra, El Banco, Ayacucho, Magangué, Plato and finally Barranquilla.One day during its arrival in Magangué, the seaplane encountered very heavy rain, which As if that were not enough, it naturally made the river flow increase, bringing with it large fences downriver that made it impossible to land, so the plane headed for Corozal, since it also had the capacity to land on land, thus alternating its stopover and becoming the only time that a Catalina was in Corozal, service that the company did in DC-3 and C-47."
During World War II, these aircraft served Avianca in mixed passenger and cargo service in the Amazon, Choco and the Pacific Coast.
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