Mexicana de Aviación Mexicana de Aviación Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. de C.V. (commonly known as Mexicana) was Mexico's oldest airline and one of the oldest continuously single-branded airlines (after KLM, Avianca and QANTAS), and Mexico's biggest and flagship airline before ceasing operations on August 28, 2010. The group's closure was announced by the company's recently installed management team a short time after the group filed for Concurso Mercantil (Mexican law equivalent to US Chapter 11) and US Chapter 15. On April 4, 2014, a judge declared Mexicana bankrupt and ordered to start selling off the company's assets to repay the airline's obligations.
ALCO S-1 and S-3 1940–1950. In addition, it produced a single S-1 for Canadian Car and Munitions (of Canada), five for Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil in Brazil, five for Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México in Mexico, and five for the Steel Company of Wales in the United Kingdom. ALCO and the Montreal Locomotive Works constructed approximately 300 S-3s for the North American market between 1950–1957. ALCO built 137; MLW built 163: MLW constructed 13 S-10s, all for the Canadian Pacific Railway: At the end of the 1974 chase film "Crazy Larry, Dirty Mary", the titular characters meet their end when they are hit