LANICA

File:Douglas DC-6B AN-BFN Lanica MIA 19.10.70 edited-3.jpg at Miami International Airport in October 1970]]

File:BAC 1-11 412 AN-BBI LANICA MIA 19.10.70.jpg of LANICA at Miami in October 1970]]

File:Convair 880 AN-BIB Lanica MIA 01.12.73 edited-2.jpg of LANICA operating a scheduled passenger service to Miami in December 1973]]

The carrier was founded in {{start date|1945|6}} as a subsidiary of Pan American Airways, with this airline initially holding 40% of the company. Domestic services began in 1946 with Boeing 247 equipment. The company bought the assets of a local airline called Flota Aérea Nicaragüense (FANSA) in 1950, acquiring the control of the lucrative routes to the mining towns of Bonanza and Siuna in the north.{{citation needed|date=September 2013}}

By {{start date|1953|3}}, the carrier's route network was {{convert|1000|mi}} long. At {{start date|1955|3}}, the fleet comprised seven DC-3s and one Navion that operated local routes; that year, the airline carried 21,852 passengers.

LANICA's fleet in {{start date|1965|4}} was composed of one DC-3, one DC-4, one DC-6, and four C-46s, with the DC-6 flying to Miami and San Salvador.

In early 1966, the carrier ordered a BAC One-Eleven 400. Pending delivery of this new aircraft, another BAC One-Eleven, leased from Aer Lingus, was deployed on the Managua–Salvador–Miami sector in {{start date|1966|11}}. Starting {{start date|1967|10|19|df=y}}, LANICA's own BAC One-Eleven was operated on a joint-ownership basis with TAN Airlines. The last BAC 1-11 was disposed of in October 1972.Eastwood and Roach 2004. p. 170

Starting in May 1972, LANICA operated four examples of the larger four-engined Convair 880 jet airliner on their scheduled passenger services to Miami. The last was disposed of in 1977.Eastwood and Roach. 2004. pp. 219-222

Pan Am's participation in the airline had decreased to 10% by 1975; private investors held 85% of the company until {{start date|1972|7}}, when Howard Hughes took control of 25% of it, through Hughes Tool Company, in exchange for the lease of two Convair 880s. By {{start date|1975|3}}, LANICA's fleet consisted of two Convair 880s, three C-46s, and four DC-6s that served a route network including domestic services, as well as international passenger and cargo services to Mexico City, Miami, and San Salvador. Two more Convair 880s were acquired in 1977.

The government of Somoza was overthrown following the rise to power of the Sandinistas in 1979. The shares held by the Somoza family —the major stockholders at the time— were seized by the Junta of National Reconstruction, but the airline's debts were not absorbed by the new government. LANICA was declared bankrupt by a Nicaraguan court in {{start date|1981|3}}, ceasing all operations on 31 August 1981.[http://www.nicaragua-actual.info/lanica.html Historia de LANICA]{{unreliable source?|date=September 2013}} In {{MONTHNAME|5}} of that year, the airline had a fleet of two Boeing 727-100s, three C-46s, one DC-6, and employed a 450-strong staff. LANICA was succeeded by Aeronica as Nicaragua's flag carrier.

LANICA offered scheduled international passenger flights to the following destinations:[http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/ni.htm Aeronica timetables at timetableimages.com]

;Argentina

• Buenos Aires

;Chile

• Santiago de Chile

;Costa Rica

• San José

;Honduras

• San Pedro Sula

;Ecuador

• Guayaquil

;Guatemala

• Ciudad Guatemala

;México

• Mexico D.F.

;Panamá

• Panama City

;Perú

• Lima

;United States

• Miami

;Uruguay

• Montevideo

Over the years of its existence, LANICA operated the following aircraft types:[http://www.aerotransport.org/php/go.php?query=operator&qstring=Lanica&where=11574&luck= LANICA at AeroTransport database]

{{Portal|Nicaragua|Aviation}}

• Transport in Nicaragua

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• Eastwood, Tony, and Roach, John. Jet Airliner Production List. 2004. The Aviation Hobby Shop. ISBN none.

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{{cite journal|title=Airlines of the World – Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA{{--}}LANICA |journal=Flight |date=8 April 1960 |volume=77 |number=2665 |page=503 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200503.html |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6JIPXzMTe?url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1960/1960%20-%200503.html |archivedate= 1 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline survey – Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA (Lanica) |journal=Flight International |number=2927 |volume=87 |date=15 April 1965 |page=589 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1965/1965%20-%202157.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306090523/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1965/1965%20-%202157.html |archivedate=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=Air transport... – One-Eleven for Nicaragua |journal=Flight International |number=2979 |volume=89 |date=14 April 1966 |page=562 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1966/1966%20-%201005.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306222349/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1966/1966%20-%201005.html |archivedate=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline survey – Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA (Lanica) |journal=Flight International |number=3031 |volume=91 |date=13 April 1967 |page=577 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1967/1967%20-%200591.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927135142/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1967/1967%20-%200591.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=Air transport |journal=Flight International |volume=95 |number=3132 |date=20 March 1969 |page=431 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%201676.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927135140/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%201676.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |quote=Taxying in at San Salvador's Ilopango Airport is the BAC One-Eleven 400 which was originally bought by Lanica of Nicaragua and which now operates services with TAN Airlines of Honduras on a joint-ownership basis. |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline survey – Lanica (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA) |journal=Flight International |number=3135 |volume=95 |date=10 April 1969 |page=578 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%201831.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927135138/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1969/1969%20-%201831.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline survey – Lanica (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA) |journal=Flight International |date=20 March 1975 |volume=108 |number=3445 |page=492 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1975/1975%20-%200556.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927171035/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1975/1975%20-%200556.html |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World news – Public-transport accidents |journal=Flight International |date=6 March 1976 |volume=111 |number=3553 |page=516 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1976/1976%20-%200356.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927170839/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1976/1976%20-%200356.html |quote=A Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua Curtiss CW-20, AN-AOC, was damaged on landing at Managua on February 25 when the starboard undercarriage collapsed. The aircraft was badly damaged but there were no passenger injures. |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=Airliner market |journal=Flight International |date=16 April 1977 |volume=109 |number=3495 |page=516 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1977/1977%20-%201089.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927170733/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1977/1977%20-%201089.html |quote=Lanica of Nicaragua has acquired two more Convair CV-880s. |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline directory – Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA (Lanica) |journal=Flight International |date=16 May 1981 |volume=119 |number=3758 |page=1446 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1981/1981%20-%201444.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003050202/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1981/1981%20-%201444.html |archivedate=3 October 2013 |issn=0015-3710 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=Air transport |journal=Flight International |date=12 December 1981 |volume=120 |number=3788 |page=1738 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1981/1981%20-%203858.html |archivedate=3 October 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131003050420/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1981/1981%20-%203858.html |issn=0015-3710 |quote=Aeronica is the new Nicaraguan state carrier, having been formed when Lanica was declared bankrupt. |url-status=dead }}

{{cite news|title= Flights to Nicaragua resumes as Lanica starts 'from zero'|first= Arthur|last= Golden|newspaper= The Miami News|date= 1 November 1979|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ktYzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=dOsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=935,143108&dq=la+nica&hl=en}}

{{cite journal|title=The World's airlines – La Nica (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua, S.A.) |journal=Flight |volume=LXIII |number=2302 |date=6 March 1953 |page=312 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1953/1953%20-%200314.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927135135/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1953/1953%20-%200314.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline directory – La Nica (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua, S.A.) |journal=Flight |volume=67 |number=2407 |date=11 March 1955 |page=306 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1955/1955%20-%200306.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927135133/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1955/1955%20-%200306.html |archivedate=27 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite journal|title=World airline directory – Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua, S.A.{{--}}LANICA |journal=Flight |volume=69 |number=2465 |date=20 April 1956 |page=473 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1956/1956%20-%200473.html |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6JsfNvCCX?url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1956/1956%20-%200473.html |archivedate=24 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite news|title= Lanica Airlines files bankruptcy|agency= Associated Press|newspaper= Boca Raton News|date= 19 April 1981|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kwJVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HJQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3839,3790614&dq=la+nica&hl=en}}

{{cite news|title=Nicaraguan Airline Fails |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/18/business/nicaraguan-airline-fails.html?pagewanted=print |newspaper=The New York Times |date=18 March 1981 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130928213828/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/18/business/nicaraguan-airline-fails.html?pagewanted=print |archivedate=28 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

{{cite news|title=Sandinistas remember their revolt |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3907209.stm |newspaper=BBC News |date=19 July 2004 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130928211915/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3907209.stm |archivedate=28 September 2013 |url-status=dead }}

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