What is "saco"

SACO is an initialism that may refer to:

• Ingeniero Aeronáutico Ambrosio L.V. Taravella International Airport's ICAO code
• SACO Apartments, a UK-based vacation rental company
• Sino-American Cooperative Organization, a World War II-era treaty for cooperation between the United States and Republic of China
• South African Computer Olympiad, an annual computer programming competition for secondary school students
• Special Action Committee on Okinawa, an agreement between the United States and Japan in 1995 to develop new rules to govern U.S. military bases on Okinawa
• SACO (Colombia), or Colombian Air Service, an airline that operated from 1933 to 1940
• St Augustine Chamber Orchestra, a chamber orchestra in Trinidad and Tobago
• SACO Defense, now General Dynamics, a U.S. defense conglomerate
• Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations (SACO)

The Colombian Air Service , or SACO, was an early Colombian airline. Founded in 1933, in 1940 SACO merged with the Colombo-German Air Transport Society (Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transporte Aéreo, or SCADTA); the new company was named Airline of the American Continent (Aerovías del Continente Americano, or Avianca). Avianca still operates to this day.

On 24 June 1935, a Ford Trimotor of SACO collided during take off with another Ford Trimotor of SCADTA at Medellín, Colombia. Fifteen people were killed, including the world-famous tango singer Carlos Gardel.