LATI (airline)

Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.83 tri-motor airliner in USAAF service - Howard Field, Panama, 1942. This aircraft was acquired by the USAAF from the Italian Latin American Airline LATI, which was seized in Chile by local government officials in December 1941

LATI (Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane, "Italian Transcontinental Airlines") was an early transatlantic airline operating between Italy and South America between 1939 and 1941.[1] Although the transatlantic service was permanently discontinued in December 1941 following the entry of the United States into World War II, the company continued to exist until 1956.[2][3]

  1. ^ Il servizio IATI sulla rotta sud-atlantica, with map of the route (in Italian)
  2. ^ Motum, John (September 1991). Pioneeringon the South Atlantic, Italian Style. ISBN 9781557506764. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  3. ^ West, Nigel (12 November 2007). Historical Dictionaries of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. ISBN 9780810864214. Retrieved 2 April 2014.