Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua
| Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua (LANICA) | |
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| IATA code : | NI |
| ICAO code : | NI |
| Call sign : | LANICA |
| Founding: | 1945 |
| Operation stopped: | 1981 |
| Seat: |
Managua , Nicaragua
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| Turnstile : | |
| Number of employees: | 450 |
| Fleet size: | 6th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua (LANICA) ceased operations in 1981. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua , or LANICA for short , was Nicaragua's national airline from 1945 until it ceased operations in 1981 .
history
The airline LANICA was founded in June 1945 and started regular operations in 1946. At that time, the fleet consisted of Boeing 247 aircraft , which operated in domestic traffic. The carrier of the company was a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways . In March 1953, the route network was 1,600 km. In March 1955, 7 Douglas DC-3s and a Navion , which was used for local routes, added to the fleet. LANICA carried 21,852 passengers this year. Ten years later, in April 1965, the fleet consisted of 1 Douglas DC-3, 1 Douglas DC-4 , 1 Douglas DC-6 , and 4 Curtiss C-46s , which were used in freight traffic. In the meantime, LANICA has been using Vickers Viscount aircraft . The Douglas DC-6 was used in liner service to Miami and San Salvador . LANICA was based at Managua Airport . In 1957, LANICA added Miami as the first international destination to its route network.
In 1966, LANICA ordered a BAC 1-11-400 jet for the first time . The company leased its first aircraft from Aer Lingus . From 1967 it operated its first BAC 1-11. The first long-haul jet airliner was a Convair CV-880 , with which the route to Miami was served from April 1972. Two more Convair CV-880s were purchased in 1977. In addition, Boeing 727-100 aircraft were used.
LANICA ceased operations on August 31, 1981. It was previously declared bankrupt by a Nicaraguan court in March 1981.
fleet
| plane | number |
|---|---|
| Boeing 727-100 | 2 |
| Curtiss C-46 | 3 |
| Douglas DC-6 | 1 |
aims
LANICA operated international flights to the following destinations:
- Buenos Aires , Argentina
- Santiago de Chile , Chile
- San Jose , Costa Rica
- San Pedro Sula , Honduras
- Guayaquil , Ecuador
- Guatemala City , Guatemala
- Mexico City , Mexico
- Panama City , Panama
- Miami , United States
The appearance
The name LANICA is made up of the abbreviation Lineas Aereas and the first four letters of the word Nicaragua .
Paintings of the aircraft
In its history, the company had different liveries for its aircraft, which also existed side by side. For example, the Convair CV-880 had white and blue paintwork with the Nicaraguan flag on the rudder, a Boeing 727, for example, had an orange stripe on the windows and mountains on the rudder, over which the sun was shining, and the BAC 1-11 again had a different painting.
Incidents
- On April 5, 1960, a Curtiss C-46 of the Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua (LANICA) ( aircraft registration AN-AIN ) crashed into a hill 2 after taking off from the airport in Siuna for San Pedro ( Región Autónoma de la Costa Caribe Norte , Nicaragua ) , 4 kilometers from the take-off airport. The cause was a propeller damage on the left engine. Of the 18 occupants, 2 were killed, a crew member and a passenger.
- On May 16, 1980, a Curtiss C-46 of the Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua (LANICA) (YN-BVL) collided with an earth wall while landing at San Pedro Airport and fell to the ground. The machine was destroyed; People were not harmed.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b World Airline Directory Archived. Retrieved June 14, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b c LANICA - Nicaragua's Dictatorial Flag Carrier. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ LANICA. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ LANICA. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ↑ autair international | puerto rico | international airlines | 1969 | 1676 | Flight Archive. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Flight Global archives. Retrieved June 14, 2017 (English).
- ^ LANICA - Nicaragua's Dictatorial Flag Carrier. Retrieved June 13, 2017 .
- ^ Boca Raton News - Google News Archive Search. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
- ^ Nicaraguan Airline Fails - The New York Times . In: archive.is . September 28, 2013 ( archive.is [accessed June 14, 2017]).
- ^ LANICA - timetable images. timetableimages.com, accessed June 14, 2017 .
- ^ Accident report C-46 AN-AIN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 12, 2019.
- ^ Accident report C-46 YN-BVL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 11, 2019.