In September 1920 SCADTA, later to be known as AVIANCA, undertook its first seaplane flight into the interior of Colombia up the Magdalena River to the town of Puerto Berrio, a journey of 700 km that took a total of 6 days. Aboard today's modern jet, that same distance is covered in just over an hour.

 

SCADTA grew their business by flying along the Magdalena and also extended their services along the Caribbean coast. They were the pioneers of air transport in Colombia and, today, only the Dutch KLM has been in the market longer. However, these magnificent machines slowly passed into history preserved only in grainy black and white images not to be considered again for a long time until the arrival of new pioneers.