Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense

Transporte Aéreo Rioplatense SACL was an Argentine cargo airline that operated in the 1970s and 1980s.

[1][2] Flights with the CL-44 commenced between Buenos Aires and Houston, on which cattle were transported, and the airline quickly established itself operating worldwide ad hoc charters, leading to the addition of three more of the aircraft type.

The airline had regular flights to Houston, Miami, and Basel, Switzerland from September 1976.

[3][4][5] On 18 July 1981, one of the airline's CL-44s was returning to Cyprus after making the third delivery flight to Iran.

The Soviet Union claimed that its Su-15 pilot deliberately downed the CL-44 by aerial ramming.

Boeing 707 of TAR at Malpensa Airport in 1981
Canadair CL-44 of TAR at Basle Airport in 1976. The same aircraft was brought down by the Soviet Air Force in July 1981