Pioneer of Colombian aviation, and it is a whole history of vicissitudes and glories, for the greatness of a dreamed and ambitious ideal, aviation.
Despite being born in a city as renowned as Pamplona, in 1898 and spending his childhood in the isolation of La Caldera, a nearby mountain farm, Daza has joined from the beginning to the universal current on the development of aeronautics.
His life was a vocation for flight.
In 1907, Camilo Daza had nine years old, when, in La Caldera, his father’s hacienda near Pamplona in the Municipality of Mutiscua, he took a window frame, fastened it by the back part and threw himself from the roof. Camilo Daza had an easy understanding of mechanical artifacts. At the age of 13, he built only one steamboat, which the people of Pamplona admired when they saw him sailing on the water in the house.
From a young age he studied mechanics in Spain, at the Industrial School of Terragoza. In 1920, he graduated from the Curtis School in Miami, as a pilot. Upon returning to Colombia, he commanded the Bolivar, the first aircraft to cross the Colombian skies. With the position of Lieutenant, he entered the Aviation School, which was directed by French officers. Participated in part in the war in Peru, alongside German aviators. He was an instructor of entire generations of military aviators, which is why the Government granted him the rank of General.
The International Airport Camilo Daza, takes its name by steps taken by the president of the Society of Public Improvements, Juan Agustín Ramírez Calderón, before the Civil Aeronautics, as a tribute to Camilo Daza in the inauguration of the facilities of the Airport, being president of the Republic Misael Pastrana Borrero, and Minister of Public Works Argelino Durán Quintero.
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