The story
Seaboard World Airlines was founded on September 16, 1946, as Seaboard & Western Airlines. It initially operated Douglas DC-4 aircraft, followed by Lockheed Super Constellation 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 Douglas DC-8.
During the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, the company used Douglas DC-8-63 jets to connect McChord Air Force Base, Washington with Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. In 1968, one of these flights operating as Seaboard World Airlines Flight 253A was forced to land in the Soviet Union 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 Marble Mountain Air Facility, when it had actually been cleared to land at the nearby Da Nang Air Base. After fuel and passengers were offloaded, the plane was towed to the north overrun and departed five hours after the landing incident. See External links 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 Flying Tiger Line on October 1, 1980, resulting in the loss of its corporate identity.
From Wikipedia’s article on Seaboard World Airlines, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3