ATC Colombia
Defunct Colombian cargo airline, 1992–1999
ATC Colombia (legally Aero Transcolombiana de Carga Ltda) was a cargo airline created in early 1992 with Colombian partners from the United States and Venezuela. Operating with Douglas DC-8 airplanes, it became the second Colombian cargo company. It ceased its entire operations in 1999.
History
ATC began operating between Miami and several points in Colombia with their own Douglas DC-8-51F (HK-3816X), acquired from Agro Air. To satisfy their consumer demand, additional planes were occasionally leased from Fine Air, based in Miami. Its main partner in Colombia was a man named Miguel Canal. At the end of 1995, under the presidency of Carlos Child, a second DC-8-51F (N507DC) was brought in and the rental system of additional aircraft to Fine Air was continued, including the Douglas DC-8-61F, which were larger and therefore they could transport more cargo. Meanwhile, Fine Air, which had shares in ATC, tried several times to obtain a license to fly to Colombia, which the American government always denied. That same year, Miguel Canal, who ran the company for two years, retired from direct management of the company.
In 1996, ATC made a special operation to become the number one company in the management of export flowers and the mobilization of this product between Bogotá and Miami.
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