[1] In 1936, brothers Horacio and Narciso Basso acquired a hydroplane to start commercial airline flights around the Caribbean.
[1] ANPRI started flights from San Juan to Vieques, St. Thomas, St. Croix and Culebra.
The hydroplane that Aerovías Nacionales used was named "Kofresi", after the famous pirate, Roberto Cofresi.
The company struggled in its attempt at getting proper authorization to use postage stamps as a way to suffrage their air mail transports.
Aerovías Nacionales' airplane was not able to perform its duty and Felix Juan Serrallés Sanchez (1911-1985), who took off from Mercedita Airport in Ponce, won the race for the Powelson Airlines.