Seaboard World Airlines

originally

Seaboard & Western Airlines

September 11, 1946 to September 30, 1980

FIRST airline to fly an all-cargo flight across the Atlantic

FIRST airline to land and takeoff at Idlewild (now JFK) Airport

FIRST airline to fly support for the Berlin Airlift

FIRST airline to fly a Military Air Transport Service (MATS) charter

FIRST airline to support Pacific Airlift for the Korean Conflict (with a planeload of Air Force fighter pilots)

FIRST airline to order and operate the Lockheed 1049D Super Constellation

FIRST airline to order and operate the Douglas DC-8-55

FIRST airline to order and operate the DC-8-63CF

FIRST airline to order and operate the Boeing 747F (first 747 built as a freighter from the beginning of its production)

FIRST all-cargo airline to join the International Air Transport Association (IATA)

FIRST airline in the world to equip its entire fleet with Inertial Navigation Systems

And thirty-three years of operation without a fatal accident!

Seaboard history at http://www.seaboardairlines.org/seabhist.htm

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