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The airline was established by Delford Smith (founder and owner) and began operations in 1960 as Evergreen Helicopters.It acquired the operating certificate of Johnson Flying Service and merged it with Intermountain Airlines (a known CIA front) from Pacific Corporation (also a CIA front) in 1975 to form Evergreen International Airlines, a United States supplemental air carrier (i.e. charter ...
The airline division, Evergreen International Airlines, operated worldwide, in 168 countries, and by the end had been reduced to a fleet of all-cargo Boeing 747 freighters. The company also operated a helicopter division, Evergreen Helicopters which was sold to Erickson Air-Crane , an Oregon-based helicopter operator, for $250 million in 2013.
Marana was the principal continental United States maintenance base for Southeast Asia CIA operations including Air America and Continental Air Services. The Marana facility was subsequently acquired by the closely Agency-linked Evergreen International Airlines, which performed aircraft modification and maintenance at the airfield. [7]
Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including allegedly providing support for drug smuggling in Laos. [2] [3] [4]
George Arntzen Doole Jr. (August 12, 1909, Quincy, Illinois [1] – March 8, 1985, Washington, D.C.) was a former U.S. Army Air Corps officer and Pan-Am pilot who ran the CIA's proprietary airline network from 1953 to 1971.
Evergreen Helicopters was the first of seven interrelated companies Smith founded and ran from his headquarters in McMinnville. [5] Smith entered the airline business in 1975 when he purchased Johnson Flying Services of Missoula, Montana. That same year, he bought a large aircraft maintenance depot in Marana, Arizona.
Operation Northwoods memorandum (13 March 1962) [1] General Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who was in charge as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Operation Northwoods was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government in 1962.
The following is a list of defunct airlines of the United States.However, some of these airlines have ceased operations completely, changed identities and/or FAA certificates and are still operating under a different name (e.g. America West Airlines changed to use the identity of US Airways in 2005 – which itself also changed identity to American Airlines in 2015).