Air America (airline)
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Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established, originally under Civil Air Transport, in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency from 1950 to 1976,
Air America Bell 205 helicopter leaving a Hmong fire support base in the Laotian Plain of Jars, c. 1969
Air America U-10D Helio Courier aircraft in Laos on a covert mountaintop landing strip (LS) "Lima site"
Air America headquarters at Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base, c. 1967
Air America Bell 205s being evacuated aboard USS Hancock, in 1975
Air America (film)
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Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots flying missions in Laos during the Vietnam War. Whe
Air America (airline)
…supported by former Laos CIA paramilitary Anthony Poshepny, former Air America pilots, and other people involved in the war. It is portrayed in the movie Air America. However, University of Georgia aviation historian William M. Leary writes that Air America was not involved in the drug trade, citing Joseph Westermeyer…
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Robert Downey Jr. and Mel Gibson attending the film's 1990 premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.