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
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
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
…function in other regards as a normal charter airline. During this period, SAT was part of a complex of CIA-owned carriers, including Air America and Intermountain Aviation. Having no further use of the carrier, the CIA decided to sell it in the early 1970s, but its ownership leaked in what became a storm of controversy…