The airline Air America, an outgrowth of Civil Air Transport of the 1940s, and Southern Air Transport, ostensibly a civilian air charter company, were operated and wholly owned by the CIA, supposedly to provide humanitarian aid, but flew many combat support missions and supplied covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.
Aviokompanija Eir America, izdanak civilnog vazdušnog saobraćaja četrdesetih godina prošlog veka i Southern Air Transport, naizgled civilna avio čarter kompanija, su radile i u potpunosti su bile u vlasništvu CIA, navodno obezbeđujući humanitarnu pomoć, ali su letele u mnogim borbenim misijama i obezbeđivale tajne operacije u Jugoistočnoj Aziji tokom Vijetnamskog rata.