Saturn Airways

Saturn Airways was a US supplemental air carrier (meaning, from 1964, a charter carrier) overseen by the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), the now-defunct Federal agency that, at the time, tightly regulated almost all US commercial air transport. From 1965, Saturn was majority owned by Howard Korth, who previously controlled AAXICO Airlines, which merged into Saturn that year. Originally a Florida company, Saturn moved to Oakland, California in 1967, headquartered at Oakland International Airport. Saturn flew Douglas DC-8 passenger charters to Europe from the late 1960s, but by the time it merged into Trans International Airlines (TIA) in 1976, Saturn was purely a cargo airline with a significant military business, including flying Lockheed L-100 Hercules aircraft.