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    "ocrText": "34\nSECR ET\n(2) Aerovias Brasil (Empresa de Trans-\nOwnership: Believed to be 100 percent pri-\nportes Aerovias Brasil, S.A.).\nvate Brazilian. LAP was organized in 1943.\nRoutes:\n(5) PAB (Panair do Brasil, S.A.).\nDomestic: Aerovias Brasil serves the eastern\nRoutes:\npart of Brazil with a more extensive network\nDomestic: The four main groups of domes-\nin that area than any other Brazilian airline.\ntic routes operated by PAB are: (a) the coastal\nIts system is composed of three main route\nroute from Porto Alegre to Belem through\ngroups: (a) routes along the Atlantic Coast\nmost of the larger coastal cities; (b) the\nfrom Porto Alegre as far north as Belem; (b)\nAmazon route extending from Belem the full\ninterior routes straight north from Sao Paulo\nlength of the river to Iquitos (Peru), with a\nto Belem; and (c) a route extending north\nsubsidiary route branching off at Manaus to\nfrom Rio de Janeiro through Belo Horizonte\nPorto Velho; (c) a route from Rio de Janeiro\nto Lapa, where it branches off into two routes,\nnorth through Belo Horizonte to Belem; and\none to Parnaiba and the other to Fortaleza.\n(d) the routes westward from Rio de Janeiro\nInternational: Aerovias Brasil's only inter-\nto Campo Grande, Corumba and Cuiaba, and\nfrom Rio de Janeiro through Sao Paulo, Curi-\nnational route at present is to the US, via\ntiba and Iguassu Falls to Asuncion (Para-\nCaracas and Ciudad Trujillo to Miami, Florida.\nguay). PAB's remaining domestic routes\nEquipment: 19 DC-3\nserve the regions near Sao Paulo, Rio de Ja-\nOwnership:\nneiro and Belo Horizonte.\n91 percent private Brazilian\nInternational: Within South America, PAB\n9 percent US (TWA)\noperates international routes to Iquitos, Peru,\nAerovias was organized in 1942 as a sub-\nand to Asuncion, Paraguay, both mentioned\nsidiary of the extensive TACA Airways System\nabove, as well as a third route to Montevideo,\n(see Panama, Section 4, Airlines) TACA's\nUruguay, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Out-\nholdings were bought by Brazilians when the\nside South America, PAB operates a route orig-\ncompany was reorganized in 1947. In Febru-\ninating in Buenos Aires with stops at Monte-\nary 1949, VASP acquired an 82 percent in-\nvideo, Rio de Janeiro, Natal, Dakar, and Lis-\nterest in Aerovias Brasil, but then resold this\nbon. From Lisbon, one branch of this route\nshare early in 1950 to private Brazilian in-\nextends to London, via Paris, another to Istan-\nterests.\nbul via Madrid and Rome, and a third through\n(3) LATB (Linha Aerea Transcontinental\nMadrid to Zurich and Stuttgart. A PAB ap-\nplication is pending before the US Civil Aero-\nBrasileira, S.A.).\nnautics Board for a route to Miami.\nRoutes: LATB operates between Rio de\nJaneiro and Sao Paulo, and from Rio de\nEquipment:\n5 Lockheed Constellation\nJaneiro to Recife along the Brazilian coast.\n19 DC-3\nEquipment:\n4 PBY-5\n5 DC-3\nOwnership:\n1 Beechcraft C-45\n52 percent private Brazilian\n4 Avro Anson\n48 percent US (PAA)\nOwnership: Believed to be 100 percent pri-\nPAB has been a Pan American Airways\nvate Brazilian. LATB was organized in 1944.\n(PAA) subsidiary since 1930 (one year after it\nwas founded). PAA held all shares until 1943,\n(4) LAP (Linhas Aereas Paulistas, S.A.)\nwhen it reduced its interest to 58 percent. In\nRoutes: LAP operates between Rio de Ja-\n1947, the present stock ownership ratio was\nneiro and Sao Paulo, and along the coast: Rio\nestablished.\nde Janeiro-Vitoria-Caravelos-Ilheus-Salvador-\n(6) REAL: (Transportes Aereos Real, S.A.)\nAracaju-Maceio-Recife-Campina Grande.\nRoutes: REAL operates throughout the\nEquipment:\nState of Sao Paulo and extends into the\n4 DC-3\nneighboring States of Minas Gerais, Parana,\n1 Lockheed Hudson\nRio Grande do Sul and the Federal District.\nTSCRET"
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