This in response to advances in modern aviation that occurred in California, United States, so in 1927, with support from the government, the airline of Construction and Transportation in Baja California established.
This company was established in a modest galerón avenue in Mexico, which began with the challenge of building the first fully Mexican plane in January 1928 by Mariano Escobedo, after asking all kinds of tools and parts to the United States.
The planes of the first aircraft were provided by the Secretary of War and Navy, and were modified by the American designer William Waterhouse, who made the relevant changes that resulted in a monoplane, with a radial engine Wright J-5C Whirlwind, which was dubbed the Baja California 1 (CB-1).
The historian recalled that Roberto Fierro Villalobos and Captain Luis Farell Cubillas were the first riders to try the BC-1. The first trip of this airplane should be from Mexicali to Mexico City, with stops in Hermosillo, Navojoa, Mazatlan and Guadalajara route that did not happen due to an engine failure that ended with the destruction.
After the failure of this aircraft, the construction of a second aircraft was started by Flavio José Rivera, who made some modifications to the plans for the new aircraft could take longer trips nonstop; construction ended March 28, 1928 and two days later undertook a journey from Mexicali to Mexico City.
Captain Fierro was once again chosen to pilot this journey and after traveling 750 meters of track managed to take flight; He remained in the air about 14 hours and 45 minutes before landing at the airfield of Balbuena, in Mexico City, where he was received by President Plutarco Elias Calles and a crowd waiting for him.
The feat achieved by the BC-2 generated great expectations in the construction of 14 aircraft for military use and some for commercial use, even a day after landing in the capital, President Plutarco Elias Calles received an offer to buy the airline , which it did not happen.
Iron and BC-2 undertook a new trip to Cuba on August 11, 1928, which lasted about 12 hours, two weeks later flew to Guatemala but bad weather forced him to land in Belize, but four days later reached their fate. He traveled to El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and finally arrived in Panama in September of that year.
During this trip to Central America, the factory built the BC-3 in Tijuana, and, unlike their predecessors, the design included fuel tanks increased capacity, its construction was completed in 1928, but because of several flaws, US Benny and Fred C. Ayars Moeur were called to repair it.
Repairs BC-3 completed in October 1929, the same year that the Mexican driver Jose Flavio Rivera undertook a trip from Mexicali to San Salvador and then to Mexico City, in order to demonstrate the reliability of this new model and thus attract potential buyers.
For its part, the BC-2 followed the skies for military use and some demonstrations, until in 1929 crashed in the mountains of the Sierra Madre Occidental, when the pilot Miguel Colorado and Cupid flying over the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
In 1930 the BC-2 failed again when Captain Fierro tried to fly from New York to Mexico City said in this article the historian.
Because of the multiple failures of the three models built in Mexico planes, the airline of Construction and Transportation stopped receiving financial support from investors, so I was forced to close its facilities, after laying the foundations for industry in this country.
