Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas

Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas - Air Paraguay (officially in Spanish "Lineas Aereas Paraguayas, Sociedad Anonima - LAPSA") was founded in 1962 to be the flag carrier airline of Paraguay. Its main base was Silvio Pettirossi International Airport, in Asuncion.

Code Data

*IATA Code: PZ
*ICAO Code:
*Callsign: Paraguaya

Company History

LAP was organized the Paraguayan Air Force in 1962 and began services in August 1963 using three Convair CV-240 aircraft. Services included flights to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santa Cruz and Curitiba from the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion. The CV-240s were replaced by Lockheed L-188 Electra acquired from Eastern Air Lines and were used by LAP for over 20 years. In 1975 a route to Lima was inaugurated.

The pure jet age came in 1978 with the purchase of two Boeing 707 from Pan American Airways and with those services to Miami began. When another 707 was bought, services to Madrid, Brussels and Frankfurt began in November 1979. The 707s were eventually replaced by Douglas DC-8-63 series aircraft and then in 1992 a Douglas DC-10-30 came into service. Since LAP was a government losing company, attempts to privatize were not fruitful and the money losing operation was shut down in 1994. [Airlines Remembered by BI Hengi, Publisher Midland Publishing]

Historical Fleet

*Convair CV-240
*Lockheed L-188 Electra
*Boeing 707
*Douglas DC-8-63
*Douglas DC-10-30

External links

* [http://www.airlinehistory.co.uk/Americas/Paraguay/Airlines.asp/ Information]

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