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Seaboard World Airlines was an international all-cargo

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based in the

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. Originally an

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, the airline was certificated as the first US transatlantic scheduled cargo airline in 1955 by the

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(CAB), the now defunct federal agency that, from 1938 to 1978, tightly regulated almost all US commercial air transportation. Seaboard's headquarters were on the grounds of

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History

Seaboard World Airlines was founded on September 16, 1946, as Seaboard & Western Airlines. It initially operated

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aircraft, followed by

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airliners. In 1955, it received final approval on CAB certification to fly scheduled cargo services across the Atlantic. It adopted the name Seaboard World Airlines in April 1961. Jet cargo service started in 1964 with the introduction of the

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During the

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in the late 1960s, the company used Douglas DC-8-63 jets to connect McChord Air Force Base,

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with

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. In 1968, one of these flights operating as Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A was forced to land in the

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with 214 American troops on board. On 30 April 1969, a Seaboard World Airlines DC-8 with 219 passengers and 13 crewmembers landed by mistake at

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, when it had actually been cleared to land at the nearby

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. After fuel and passengers were offloaded, the plane was towed to the north overrun and departed five hours after the landing incident. See

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for a video of the DC-8 departing Marble Mountain. Seaboard was the first airline to fly a 747 Freighter service from the UK to the USA. The airline merged with

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on October 1, 1980, resulting in the loss of its corporate identity.

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* 1969 film of Seaboard World DC-8 departing Marble Mountain after mistakenly landing there the night before:
Seaboard World Airlines - Seaboard and Western Airlines
, Airline Timetable Images
Seaboard World Airlines aircraft

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, Aviation Safety Network
David O. Hill Seaboard World Airlines Collection
, Archives at The Museum of Flight {{Airlines of the United States, state=collapsed Defunct airlines of the United States Defunct cargo airlines Airlines established in 1946 Airlines disestablished in 1980 1946 establishments in New York City Airlines based in New York (state) 1980 disestablishments in New York (state)

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