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 - Flying Tiger Line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 Aug 17, 12:02pm  (1 review) aerospace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Tige...- This is a very interesting story and little known-
Flying Tiger Line, also known as Flying Tigers, was the first scheduled cargo airline in the United States and a major military charter operator during the Cold War era for both cargo and personnel (the latter with leased aircraft). The company was started by Robert William Prescott.
The airline was named after the Flying Tigers fighter unit of World War II, officially the 1st American Volunteer Group. Ten former AVG pilots formed the Flying Tiger Line (originally called National Skyway Freight) after returning to the United States in 1945, using a small fleet of Budd Company C-93 Conestoga freighters purchased as war surplus from the United States Navy. For the next four years, Flying Tiger Line carried air freight on contract.
Over the years, Flying Tigers carried a number of unique cargoes, including the famed orca Shamu and the torch of the Statue of Liberty.
This post is dedicated to Lloyd J Moore a navigator with the Flying Tiger Line-note the plane, He along with the rest of the crew died when the plane while making an instrument approach crashed short of the runway- The plane was carrying releaf supplies for 100 Chinese Children. The date was December 24th 1966 and little was known about this mission because of a CIA cover-up-Did I say CIA COVER UP
This IP is the site of the crash-http://aviation-safety.net/database/record_map.php?id=19661224-0
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