Compañía Aeronáutica Uruguaya SA (The Uruguay Aeronautics Company Ltd.) was founded on December 29, 1936 by the Uruguayan banker Luis J. Supervielle and Colonel Tydeo Larre Borges.

At the end of World War II, CAUSA began competing with the Argentine airline A.L.F.A., precursor of the future Aerolíneas Argentinas, and purchased two modified Short Sunderland flying boats.

The Short Sunderlands were the CX-AFA(C/N SH.5C) "General Artigas", the CX-AKF(C/N SH.6C) ex-"Corporación Sudamericana de Servicios Aéreos" and the CX-AKR(C/N SH 60C) "Capitán Boiso Lanza".

These fine looking airplanes with a beautiful shape were familiar and appreciated sights on its daily arrivals at the airports in Buenos Aires Aeroparque or Montevideo Carrasco.

Fuerza Aérea (Setenta y cinco aniversario 1913-1988), Imprenta del Ejército Depósito Legal No.232.479 Lockheed Constellation by Curtis K.Stringfellow and Peter M.Bowers, MBI Publishing Company ISBN 0-87938-379-8 Airlines of Latin America, R.E.G.

Davies, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C., 1984 Memorias de Aeroplanos, Alberto Marquez Vaeza, Montevideo, 1989 Aviación Comercial Argentina 1945-1980, Pablo L. Potenze, Ed.

El Cronista Comercial, Buenos Aires, 1987 Media related to Compania Aeronáutica Uruguaya at Wikimedia Commons