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Southern Air Transport

US cargo airline (1947–1998) once owned by the CIA

Southern Air Transport (SAT), based in Miami, Florida, United States, was, in its final incarnation, a cargo airline. However, it started life as an irregular air carrier (later known as a supplemental air carrier), a type of carrier defined and tightly controlled until 1978 by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), a now defunct Federal agency that, at the time, closely regulated almost all US commercial air transportation.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

  • HeadquartersMiami1

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Southern Air Transport Boeing 747-200 Spijkers
Photo: Paul Spijkers, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons3

Southern Air Transport (SAT), based in Miami, Florida, United States, was, in its final incarnation, a cargo airline. However, it started life as an irregular air carrier (later known as a supplemental air carrier), a type of carrier defined and tightly controlled until 1978 by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), a now defunct Federal agency that, at the time, closely regulated almost all US commercial air transportation.2

Timeline

  1. 1998Dissolved Dissolved1

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