Pacific Corporation
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Former US Army pilot George A. Doole Jr. created Pacific Corporation, incorporated in Delaware in 1950.[1] He concealed the agency's involvement by shuffling aircraft continuously among various shell corporations and altering aircraft registration numbers, a tactic the agency apparently still uses (see N44982[2]) and also using three corporate Officer/ Board Members in the name of the Sigler Corporation, the nominee of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. custodian.[3] The corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.
Pacific's affiliates included:
- Actus Technology
- Air America, originally named Civil Air Transport, defunct
- Air Asia Co. Ltd., air maintenance activity
- Seaboard World Services
- Southern Air Transport, privatized as Southern Air
- Thai Pacific Services