AEROVIAS NACIONALES DE COLOMBIA S.A.. Avianca is the first commercial airline founded on the Américas and second on the world. Its creation took place thanks to the talent and adventurous spirit of the Germans Werner Kaemerer, Stuart Hosie, Alberto Tietjen and the Colombians Ernesto Cortizzos (the first President of the airline), Rafael Palace, Cristóbal Restrepo, Jacobo Correa and Aristides Noguera. These visionaries and soñadores founded the December 5 1919 on the city of Barranquilla (Colombia) German the Colombo Society of Aerial Transport - SCADTA. The company made the first flight between Barranquilla and the near population of Colombia Port, attack of a Junker F-13 in which 57 letters were transported. The flight was to the control of German Pilot Helmuth Von Krohn.
In 1999 one of the 757-200 of the company was repainted in memoriam
of the old Aviaca livery. The aircraft flue as such for only that year.