Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela, normally referred to as just Aeropostal, is a state-owned airline of Venezuela based in Torre Polar Oeste in Caracas, Venezuela. It operates domestic services and international services in the Caribbean. Its main base is Simón Bolívar International Airport, Caracas. The airlines ceased operations on 24 September 2017 after 88 years of service due to its financial position. On 8 August 2018, the company announced that it would begin scheduled service again.
Venezuela was one of the first South American nations to resort to commercial aviation as an effective means of transportation. In 1929, the French company Aéropostale (known as Lignes Aériennes Latécoère until 1927), then under the leadership of its owner Marcel Bouilloux-Lafont, arrived in Venezuela. Aéropostale viewed Venezuela as the ideal bridge to link South America with the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. This idea materialized on 3 July 1929. Three Latécoère 28's carried out the first flights of the new airline, although some Latécoère 26's were also used in those earlier routes. On 31 December 1933, the Venezuelan government purchased the airline after the French government inexplicably decided to stop subsidizing it.
August 27, 1972: this Douglas C-47 airplane with the initials YV-C-AKE of Aeropostal Líneas Aéreas de Venezuela suffered a failure in the left engine, shortly after taking off on a regular passenger flight bound for the National Airport. Tomas de Heres, Ciudad Bolívar. The plane crashed while trying to return to Canaima,
Currently in a museum in Maracay there is a representation of this plane
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