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Here is flag of SCADTA (Sociedad Colombo Alemana de
Transporte Aéreo, Colombian-German Air Transport Society). Formed in
1919, it is the oldest predecessor of the modern-day Colombian airline
Avianca. Given SCADTA's German ownership, it is little surprise that
that its saltire flag recalls that of Lufthansa and of the pre-WWII
Deutsche Zeppelin-Reederei.
Miles Li, 24 January 2014
Having worked in the aviation sector myself, and being an aviation enthusiast
also, I have never seen a flag for this aviation company (only logos mainly on
their airmail and flight schedules, but I have never seen a flag attributed to
this company).
Esteban Rivera, 24 January 2014
Here is a reference:
http://aviacionyturismo.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/tiquete.jpg The light
blue color of the cross is really a green St. Andrew's cross.
A similar flag with St. Andrew's cross had the German-Russian airline "Deruluft"
(DEutsch-RUssische LUFTverkehrsgesellschaft AG). See please:
http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/images/deruluft.gif at
http://www.vexillographia.ru/russia/USSRved.htm#deru
Jens Pattke, 24 January 2014
May I controvert your opinion on this, and say that the file you mention is
not a flag, but a logo on some airmail.
Again, if anybody can mention a credible source where we can actually find a
real flag of this company, I look forward to see it.
Esteban Rivera, 24 January 2014
The best image of the flag can be found here:
http://www.sandafayre.com/stockimages/72311851.jpg
Another one (used as the background of a ticket) can be found here:
http://catalog.stamplibrary.org/InmagicGenie/ImageFolder/scadta%20correspondence%20330602.jpg
Of course, not every rectangular emblem is a flag. However since SCADTA had
another logo (a simplified version of which was placed on the saltire), there is
little doubt that this was indeed a flag.
Miles Li, 25 January 2014
If that's a flag, then there are two versions, as one has blue diagonals and
the other green.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 25 January 2014
Here is yet another image:
http://aviacionyturismo.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/tiquete.jpg%3Fw%3D210
The saltire appears bluish green. Maybe the green shade was just the result of
limitations in printing technology available locally at the time?
Miles Li, 25 January 2014
An airplane model builders wrote me. The last original flag of SCADTA is
found in a glass case at the airport "Ernesto Cortissoz" in Barranquilla. The
German-Colombian airline SCADTA had throughout its history three flags. A 1927
flag was the Lufthansa flag (blue with yellow St-Andrew-cross), instead of the
Lufthansa-crane, the German-Colombian company introduced a SCADTA-condor. Image
unknown. The white-red-green flag is then the second version.
Jens Pattke, 26 January 2014
I am still a bit skeptical about SCADTA having a flag (because no mention of
it has appeared on any written or graphical material). However, I have to rely
on Jens' comments that an airplane modeler told him there's one at the airport.
I would like too see an official response from airport authorities, but that is
going to be a little difficult: the Enersto Cortissoz International Airport was
operated from 1996 until 2011 by a private contractor,
ACSA (Aeropuertos del Caribe S.A.), even having an
official website for the airport, but then
Aerocivil took over management due to bad
performance results.
Now, regarding the different logos of SCADTA, I have seen the following (but
again, not all logos made it to become part of a flag...)
-
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Avianca (and here
logo in hi res)
-
http://scadta.co/fundacion-de-scadta/ (logo in color, seems to be a
metal pin)
-
http://static3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130120151116/logopedia/images/2/2d/Scadta_1929-1936.png
(logo in red/green scheme, different typography)
-
http://www.filaposta.com/imagenes/jorgesurcl-scadta.prop.jpg (logo in
a newspaper add)
-
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e376/ruben77/Ford/Ford-tri-013.jpg
(picture of a paper scale model kit for a Ford Tri-Motor operated by SCADTA,
displaying the first logo on the fuselage).
And here's another logo, with a more elaborate landscape, in different color
composition:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uLUpU5oXzXE/TrwRCj47MxI/AAAAAAAABhE/j69ceRmvWXA/s1600/Scadta%2B1919.jpg
and
http://www.timetableimages.com/i-lab/av2l1.jpg
Here's a
photograph of what seems to be a meeting of SCADTA personnel (maybe
administrative staff or shareholders, I'm not really sure) .
There seems to be a SCADTA flag in that picture, but since it is in black and
white, I'm not certain of what colors are there.
Source:
http://www.scadta.de/Scadta-Fluggesellschaft/Scadta-Fluggesellschaft/Geschichte.html
During 2012 and the commemoration of the Centennial of aviation in Colombia, a
special gallery was opened in the Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport in
Barranquilla, to display the history of SCADTA and
the origins of aviation in Colombia. This
exposition was possible through the
collaboration of many people among them Universities, the city's Mayor and
historians as well. Maybe it is in this
gallery, that Jens came to the fact that there's an actual flag of SCADTA.
Esteban Rivera, 26 January 2014
I do concede that the satire on the SCADTA flag could be green.
Miles Li, 27 January 2014
There's a special group in Facebook (kind of "official") where relatives of
founding members of this airline, as well as former and current pilots,
historians, professors, etc., take part in recovering the history of this
airline.
In this group there's a
picture gallery of the Aviation Hall in the Ernesto Cortissoz Airport in
Barranquilla where the supposed flag is found.
Here are
two pictures that show the flag (if you can't access the file for not being
member of the group, (here's the
image link).
In this picture, one can see the Colombian flag (left) and the SCADTA right
next to a Junkers Ju-52 flown by the airline. (if you can't access the file for
not being member of the group, (here's
the image link). In this picture, encased on a glass there's the flag of SCADTA.
Here's the cockade used in the first years of SCADTA :
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150270804432284&set=o.115986611764504&type=3
(if you can't access the picture,
here's the image.)
The source for this, is this picture of a Junkers F-13, showing it on the
side (Image.)
Esteban Rivera, 05 February 2014
Possibily erroneous version with blue saltire
image by Miles Li, 14 March 2015