question: What village was the Hunting-Clan Air Transport's first operating base located near?
answer: Bovingdon
context: Title: RAF Bovingdon
  Passage: Royal Air Force Bovingdon or more simply RAF Bovingdon is a former Royal Air Force station located near the village of Bovingdon, 2.5 mi south of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and 2.5 mi southeast of Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England.
  Title: Hunting-Clan Air Transport
  Passage: Hunting-Clan Air Transport was a wholly private, British independent airline that was founded in the immediate post-World War II period.  It began trading on January 1, 1946 as Hunting Air Travel Ltd.  It was a subsidiary of the Hunting Group of companies, which had come from the shipping industry and could trace its history back to the 19th century.  The newly formed airline's first operating base was at Bovingdon Airport in Southeast England.  Its main activities were contract, scheduled and non-scheduled domestic and international air services that were initially operated with Douglas Dakota and Vickers Viking piston airliners from the company's Bovingdon base.  A change of name to Hunting Air Transport occurred in 1951.  By that time, the airline had emerged as one of the healthiest and most securely financed independent airlines in Britain.  In October 1953, the firm's name changed to Hunting-Clan Air Transport, as a result of an agreement between the Hunting Group and the Clan Line group of companies to invest £500,000 each in a new company named Hunting-Clan Air Holdings Ltd, the holding company for the combined group's air transport interests.  Apart from Hunting-Clan Air Transport itself, this included Field Aircraft Services Ltd, the Hunting group's aircraft maintenance arm.  In 1960, Hunting-Clan Air Transport merged with the Airwork group to form British United Airways (BUA).
  Title: Operation Safe Haven (1957)
  Passage: Operation Safe Haven was a refugee relocation operation executed by the United States Marine Corps to evacuate 15,570-21,000 of the 200,000 Hungarian refugees to the United States following the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.  The airlift was ordered by Dwight D. Eisenhower on Dec. 10, 1956, as a Cold War response to the Soviet suppression of the Hungarian revolt.  It was a joint endeavor by the United States Bolling and Military Air Transport Services, the United States Navy, and various commercial aircraft.  On January 1, 1957, air transports from the 1608th Air Transport Wing from Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., and 175 aircraft from the 1611th Air Transport Wing from McGuire AFB, N.J., relocated 9,700 refugees to the United States, under the direction of Airlift Task Force commander Major General George B. Dany.  In addition to air transport, from December 18, 1956, through February 14, 1957, ships of the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service (USNS Eltinge, Haan, Marine Carp, and Walker) transported 8,944 refugees from Bremerhaven, Germany, to New York City, USA.  These refugees were job-classified by the U.S. Labor Department as they made their way to American shores.
  Title: 1503d Air Transport Wing
  Passage: The 1503d Air Transport Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit.  It was last assigned to Western Transport Air Force of Military Air Transport Service at Tachikawa Air Base, Japan.  It was inactivated on 22 June 1964 and its remaining squadron transferred to the 1503d Air Transport Group.
citations: Hunting-Clan Air Transport RAF Bovingdon