Pacific Corporation

The Pacific Corporation (originally Airdale Corporation), was a holding company that the Central Intelligence Agency used to control several aviation front companies.

Former US Army pilot George A. Doole Jr. created Pacific as a Delaware corporation in 1950. 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). The corporation dissolved in 1979 after selling its assets.

Pacific's affiliates included

• Actus Technology
• Air America, defunct
• Air Asia Co. Ltd., air maintenance activity
• Civil Air Transport, became Air America
• Intermountain Airlines, became Evergreen International Airlines
• Seaboard World Services
• Southern Air Transport, privatized as Southern Air
• Thai Pacific Services