YV-C-AVI c/n 20 Caravelle 3, made its first flight   on January 8th 1060 as F-WJAK and was delivered to Air Algérie as F-OBNH 6   days later. It was converted to series 3 standards in May 1961. On December   15th 1961 Varig bought c/n 20 and registered it PP-VJI. It was withdrawn from   use and stored at JFK, New York in December 1963. On August 13th 1964 the plane was bought by Avensa and registered YV-C-AVI and leased to VIASA/PIASA  in June 1969 and returned to Avensa one year later.