Editing Seaboard World Airlines (section)

== History ==
Seaboard World Airlines was founded on September 16, 1946, as '''Seaboard & Western Airlines'''. It initially operated [[Douglas DC-4]] aircraft, followed by [[Lockheed Constellation|Lockheed Super Constellation]] airliners.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} In 1955, it received final approval on CAB certification to fly scheduled cargo services across the Atlantic.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Civil Aeronautics Board Reports|volume=21|publisher=U.S. General Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|pages=671–759|date=June–October 1955 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32435022360531?urlappend=%3Bseq=691%3Bownerid=102790623-741|hdl=2027/osu.32435022360531|hdl-access=free |title=Transatlantic Cargo Case}}</ref>

It adopted the name Seaboard World Airlines in April 1961. Jet cargo service started in 1964 with the introduction of the [[Douglas DC-8]].{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
[[File:Seaboard World Airlines DC-8 N868F.jpg|thumb|A [[DC-8]] in [[Pisa Airport|Pisa]] (1974).]]
[[File:Lockheed L-1049D Super Constellation, Seaboard & Western Airlines AN0074797.jpg|thumb|A [[Lockheed L-1049|L-1049D]] in [[Honolulu International Airport|Honolulu]] (1956).]]
[[File:N10427 Curtiss C-46A Commando Seaboard World Airlines FRA 08DEC67 (5915488581).jpg|thumb|A [[C-46]] in [[Flughafen Frankfurt|Frankfurt]] (1967).]]

During the [[Vietnam War]] in the late 1960s, the company used [[Douglas DC-8|Douglas DC-8-63]] jets to connect [[McChord Air Force Base]], [[Washington (state)|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]].<ref>[http://media.nara.gov/usmc/077/00004851.pdf Command Chronology, Marine Air Base Squadron 16, 5 May 1969] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512221739/http://media.nara.gov/usmc/077/00004851.pdf |date=12 May 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvK6enoQDg|title=OV-1 Mohawk-Seaboard World DC-8 lands at Marble Mountain- Vietnam.m4v |website=YouTube |date=7 January 2010|access-date=21 October 2024|publisher=stan bloom|format=video|language=en}}</ref>  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|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.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}

The airline merged with [[Flying Tiger Line]] on October 1, 1980, resulting in the loss of its corporate identity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Seaboard & Western / Seaboard World Airlines History |url=http://www.seaboardairlines.org/seabhist.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240220092639/https://www.seaboardairlines.org/seabhist.htm |archive-date=Feb 20, 2024 |website=Seaboard World/Seaboard & Western Airlines}}</ref>