Intermountain Aviation was a US airline established in 1961 and secretly owned by the Central Intelligence Agency. Intermountain's non-CIA business included flying smokejumpers for the United States F
Southern Air Transport, based in Miami, Florida, United States, was, in its final incarnation, a cargo airline. However, it started life as an irregular air carrier, a type of carrier defined and tigh
Intermountain Aviation
…bar, heated pool and other activities. However, in 1972 the CIA also decided to reduce aviation activities, specifically to exit Air America and Southern Air Transport (SAT). SAT was CAB-certificated and therefore sale required a CAB proceeding. The CAB process resulted in SAT's CIA-ownership, already rumored, becoming…
Boeing 747-200
CIA-era Southern Air Transport Boeing 727-100C at Tan Son Nhut Air Base July 1969. Owner of registration number N5092 was Air America
Same aircraft as above, Thailand
CIA-era Lockheed L-100 Hercules at London Gatwick Airport 1970. Note the eight-point compass motif. The CIA has a sixteen-point compass on its seal