Latin American Aviation History

Got scans from ‘Skyways’ (28 October 93) last night.
Here is TNCA 4-E “Quetzacoatl”
(sorry – poor quality) 🙁

Thanks Wieesso, you know Ralph O’Neill was one of the factors in the demise of the Mexican aircraft industry, while some people in mexico favoured mexican designs Ralph O’Neill favoured foreign aircraft Ralph O’Neill was an american and mexican citizen however he was an aviator and flew for the US armed forces in Europe during WWI, so his ill advise and anti Lascurain`s aircraft attitude was in part one of the factors that caused the demise and disappereance of the early 1920-1940s mexican aircraft industry .
http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2006/1tri06/flores.html

Ralph O’Neill had dual citizenship however had a special favour for american aircraft designs, this ended in the Azcarate Corsair a design licensed from Vought, this caused that the TNCA`s later designs were not supported by the mexican air force

http://portalaviacion.vuela.com.mx/articulos/corsarios.html

Got scans from ‘Skyways’ (28 October 93) last night.
Here is TNCA 4-E “Quetzacoatl”
(sorry – poor quality) 🙁

During the 1928s was created the Cia Aeronautica de Baja california a company that built the Baja california aircraft this mexican company tried in vain to sell its designs without any success however it toured México, La Habana-Cuba, Belice, Guatemala, El Salvador, Tegucigalpa-Honduras , San José-Panamá in the mexican built aircraft Baja California

http://www.esimetic.ipn.mx/pag1/avi-mex.htm

Does anyone have the years that the various early, before 1920, TNCA designs were first built? Also, can anyone suggest a source for photos, on-line or otherwise, for these? A and C are easy, but I haven’t found much on the rest.

Thanks.

The Lascurain 3-E-130 Tololoche dates from 1923

Guess ff in
1915 TNCA H Parasol
1916 TNCA serie A
1923 Lascurain monoplano Sonora

Does anyone have the years that the various early, before 1920, TNCA designs were first built? Also, can anyone suggest a source for photos, on-line or otherwise, for these? A and C are easy, but I haven’t found much on the rest.

Thanks.

Here is another TNCA named Mexico, it seems to be a series H Parasol

This is the Parasol also another design by Angel Lascurain y Osio built at TNCA in Mexico city.
Also in 1915 the Talleres Nacionales de Construcciones Aeronauticas [TNCA] set about the development and production of aircraft from scratch. The TNCA Series A tandem two-seater bi-plane trainer, powered by the Mexican developed Azatl air-cooled six cylinder radial engine, entered production 1916. Further aircraft followed, including the TNCA Series B trainer, the Series C lightweight single-seater fighter, the Series D, F and G, derived from Bleriot and Morane-Saulnier designs, 10 examples of the locally-designed Series E sesquiplane [sic] and 15 examples of the Series H two-seat parasol monoplane light bomber. By 1920, at the end of the Revolution, the Arma Aerea de las Fuerzas Constitucionales had approximately 50 locally-built aircraft.

http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/

Yes 😉

Wieeso

Lot of information is easy to get even the Mexican army air force offers you a small summary of the main achievements done by the mexican aircraft industry in the years of the mexican revolution here we have a nice Lascurain monoplano Sonora one of the few fighters built and designed in mexico during the early 1920s by Angel lascurain y Osio see that the aircraft is a very revolutionary style for the early years of aviation, also in the background we can see a TNCA series B nicknamed el Puro another Mexican design build and designed by TNCA

Interesting to see something “different”
An area we (or rather I) seem to know little about.
I was going to ask how of the Taurus many were built – do I take it the answer is 12?
Roger Smith.

Yes 😉

Interesting to see something “different”

An area we (or rather I) seem to know little about.

I was going to ask how of the Taurus many were built – do I take it the answer is 12?

Roger Smith.

9 Anahuac T-300 Tauro c/n TA0001 (prototype XB-TAX) – TA0008 and TA0010 (N65055)
3 Anahuac T-350 Tauro c/n TA0009/TA0011/TA0012

Thanks wieesso, you know after reseaching the history of only three countries in Latin america i have gotten some really interesting results, for example as early as 1915 Mexico was one of the few countries in the world that built aircraft, one of the most notable is the TNCA A series which had an engine (AZTATL) with a Propeller (Anahuac) entirely designed and made in Mexico, in fact it was the only aircraft to my knowledge that was flown with a completly designed airframe and engine in Mexico.

It is interesting to know that as early as 14 April 1914 during the mexican revolution in Topolobambo Mexico there was one of the first bombings in history a fact usually forgotten by many.

9 Anahuac T-300 Tauro c/n TA0001 (prototype XB-TAX) – TA0008 and TA0010 (N65055)
3 Anahuac T-350 Tauro c/n TA0009/TA0011/TA0012