AAXICO Airlines  Curtiss C-46F      N1824M                      (c/n 22446)

                                  

                                     AAXICO was founded in 1945 by Howard J. Korth as American Air Export & Import Company.
                                     It operated passenger and cargo charters mainly from New York to Atlantic City until 1956 when
                                     it became a full time freight company.     The corporate name was changed in 1957 to AAXICO
                                     Airlines.  Initially it operated a large fleet of C-46s, and later flew DC-6s.  .  Like many of its ilk,
                                     thes C-46F-1-CU above "did the rounds" of the non-skeds in the 1940s, 50s and 60s.  Originally
                                     serialed 44-78623 with the USAAF it went first to Airlift International before being acquired by
                                     AAXICO in 1954.  Bill Larkins shot (above) was taken at Oakland in 1954, the northern Calif-
                                     ornia "home" of scores of non-skeds   . N1824M later passed to Universal Airlines and Capitol
                                     Airways before winding up in Columbia as CP-941.  It was written off while operating with
                                     Trans Aereos Illimani 
                                     N4873V seen below in color was a similar sister-craft previously with Flying Tigers, Riddle and
                                     ASA before being acquired by AAXICO.   It had many subsequent owners beforer being written
                                    off when it ditched into the sea off Puerto Rico on 8 August 1975 when in operation  by Rich
                                     International Airways.
                                   .Saturn Airways acquired AAXICO in 1965.

                                  Curtiss C-46  N4873V     (c/n  22415)