Faucett Perú
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| IATA code : | CF |
| ICAO code : | CFP |
| Call sign : | FAUCETT |
| Founding: | 1928 |
| Operation stopped: | 1997 |
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Lima , Peru
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| Home airport : | Lima Airport |
| Fleet size: | 8th |
| Aims: | international |
| Faucett Perú ceased operations in 1997. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
The Compañía de Aviación Faucett SA , with the brand identity Faucett Perú or Faucett for short , was a Peruvian airline that ceased operations in November 1997.
history
In 1920 the American pilot Elmer J. Faucett emigrated to Peru , where he worked as a representative for the Curtiss Export Company . After the bankruptcy of this company, Faucett independently carried out contract flights in Peru with a Curtiss Oriole . On September 15, 1928, with the support of Peruvian business people, he founded the Compañía de Aviación Faucett SA (CAF), one of the first Peruvian airlines and one of the first ever air transport companies in Latin America . Operations began on September 27, 1928 with imported Stinson Detroiters who were used on flights from Lima to Talara in the north and Arequipa in the south. Another 30 licensed models based on this type and designated as Stinson-Faucett F-19s were manufactured by CAF in Peru between 1934 and 1946, some of which were also sold to other companies and to the Peruvian government. In 1937, CAF took over the airline Aerovias del Perú and integrated it into the company. Seven F-19s were in service at the time. At the end of 1945, the company, which until then had only used single-engine machines, acquired several Douglas C-47s and Douglas C-54s from the inventory of the United States Army Air Forces . In 1951, the company's founder Elmer J. Faucett withdrew from the company. The fleet at that time consisted of eight Douglas DC-3 (C-47), four Douglas DC-4 (C-54) and seven Stinson-Faucett F-19, with which 31 destinations in Peru were served as scheduled.
The first Douglas DC-6 was acquired in 1960 by Pan American-Grace Airways ( Panagra ), which at the time had a 19% stake in CAF. The other shares were held 37% by the Faucett Foundation holding and 44% by private investors in the 1960s . When Panagra was merged with the US company Braniff International Airways (BIA) in 1967 , its Faucett shares were transferred to them. At the same time, Faucett Perú were granted the route rights previously granted to Panagra for scheduled flights from Lima via Panama City (Panama) to Miami (USA), which they did not initially use. It was not until the early 1970s that the company began operating on this route, although until 1982 it only operated cargo flights to Miami. DC-6B converted to cargo planes were initially used on the route .
On April 9, 1968, Faucett Perú took over a brand new Boeing 727-100 and thus its first jet aircraft . As a first customer, it received a BAC 1-11 of the Series 475 from the manufacturer on July 23, 1971 , which was designed for the operation of hot and high-altitude airports. A second brand new machine of this type was delivered to the company on July 19, 1974, followed by a BAC 111-500 acquired second-hand on August 3, 1977. In addition, Faucett Perú put several leased Boeing 727-100C into service from the mid-1970s. For cargo flights to Miami were sequentially from August 1978, a Boeing 707-300F as well as of October 1979, a DC-8-33 (F) Douglas in wetlease rented.
In the summer of 1982 the air freight company Aeronaves del Perú became the largest shareholder in the company .
On November 15, 1999 , the airline was declared bankrupt.
Incidents
- On September 11, 1990, a Boeing 727-200 crashed during a transfer flight from Malta via Keflavík , Iceland about 290 kilometers southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland due to a lack of fuel. None of the three-person crew and 15 members of the airline on board survived. It is assumed that navigation problems were complicit in the crash (see also the disappearance of a Boeing 727 of Faucett Perú ) .
- On February 29, 1996, a Boeing 737-200 leased by American Airlines was flown into a mountain five minutes before landing at Arequipa airport , killing all 117 passengers and 6 crew members on board (see also Faucett-Peru flight 251 ) .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Flight International, April 28, 1938 (in English), accessed March 22, 2019
- ^ Flight International, Over Amazon and Andes, October 12, 1951 , accessed March 20, 2019
- ↑ Rzjets, Boeing 727-063 OB-R-902 (in English), accessed March 20, 2019
- ↑ Rzjets, BAC 111-476M OB-R-953 (in English), accessed on March 20, 2019
- ↑ Rzjets, BAC 111-476M OB-R-1080 (in English), accessed on March 25, 2019
- ↑ Rzjets, BAC 111-523FJ OB-R-1173 (in English), accessed on March 25, 2019
- ↑ Rzjets, Boeing 707-321F N2276X (in English), accessed March 25, 2019
- ↑ Rzjets, Douglas DC-8-33 (F) N8166A (in English), accessed on 25 March 2019