SAT Items

Southern Air Transport

An Air America, Inc. "sister company" that was bought into and then sold off into private hands and existed until very recently. SAT flew cargo and people around Southeast Asia on limited runs but concentrated its efforts in Latin America (and in the post-war years Africa). Thank you to the contributors. Click here for items from post-war SAT.

SAT Paper SAT Aircraft
SAT Founder "Doc" Moor	SAT Founder "Doc" Moor's Racing Boat Loaded onto SAT Aircraft - 7/1970 and Doc Loading Boat
First Issue Cloth Cap Badge
Courtesy Capt Ray Arnold
First Issue Captain/Pilot in Command (PIC) Wings This is the first pattern worn by SAT in the early 1960's (Note: Compass Rose on the Shield)	First Issue First Officer/Flight Engineer Wings This is the first pattern worn by SAT in the early 1960's (Note: Compass Rose on the Shield)
Courtesy Capt Ray Arnold
Second Issue Captain/Pilot in Command (PIC) Wings These were adopted by the later SAT - see below
Courtesy Capt Ray Arnold
Issue Captain/Pilot in Command (PIC) Wings	Issue First Officer/Flight Engineer Wings
Courtesy J Pearson	Courtesy JW Cook
SAT Command/Chief Pilot Wings
Courtesy Dennis English
Issue Flight Engineer Epaulettes	Issue Flight Engineer Wings
Issue Captain Epaulettes	Issue Captain Epaulettes
Flight Engineer Set	SAT Luggage Tag for Bangkok
	Courtesy JW Cook
SAT Issue Wings Captain/Pilot in Command (top) Flight Officer/Flight Engineer (left) -- Stewardess (right) Tie Pin (bottom)	SAT Stewardesss Wing
Courtesy J Pearson	Courtesy J Pearson
SAT Tie Pin	SAT Issue Cap Badge
Courtesy J Pearson
SAT Issue Cap
SAT Pilot Shirt/Tie (Note Cap Badge)
Flight Engineer Informal Uniform Shirt	Flight Engineer Informal Uniform Set
Captain Informal Uniform	Captain Informal Uniform
SAT-Pacific Captain Class A Uniform	SAT-Pacific Captain Class A Uniform
SAT Stewardess	SAT Stewardess
SAT Atlantic (SAT-ATL) Division Captain Class A Uniform
RE: SAT-ATL UNIFORMS: WHEN FLYING OUT OF THE MIAMI BASE OF OPERATIONS, THE UNIFORM WAS BLACK SHOES, BLACK PANTS, WHITE, SHORT SLEEVED AIRLINE SHIRT WITH THE APPROPRIATE RANK EPAULETTES. OPEN COLLAR, NO NECKTIE. HOWEVER, IF YOU HAD A FLIGHT NORTH OF MIAMI, SAY INTO NEW YORK'S JFK, THEN YOU WERE REQUESTED TO WEAR A BLACK NECKTIE. IN APPROXIMATELY 1967, SAT-ATL DECIDED TO ACQUIRE "AIRLINE UNIFORMS" FOR FLIGHT CREWS. THESE FULL UNIFORMS WERE TO BE WORN ON ANY FLIGHT "NORTH" OF MIAMI, AND THE OPEN COLLAR WHITE SHIRT WITH EPAULETTES WERE TO BE WORN ON FLIGHTS "SOUTH" OF MIAMI. THE COMPANY LET US LOOK AT BOOKS OF "AIRLINE UNIFORMS OF THE WORLD." THE COMPANY ALLOWED THE FLIGHT CREWS TO VOTE ON THE PARTICULAR AIRLINE UNIFORM WE LIKED. ( I THOUGHT A NICE DARK BLUE WITH GOLD ARM RANK-STRIPES WOULD BE GOOD.) WELL, THE MAJORITY OF THE CREWS VOTED FOR THE AIRLINE UNIFORM WORN BY SAUDI ARABIA. THE SAUDI UNIFORM WAS BLACK WITH BLACK STRIPES. YOU COULDN'T HARDLY SEE THE BLACK RANK-STRIPES ON THE BLACK UNIFORM JACKET. ACTUALLY, THERE WAS A REASON FOR THEIR MADNESS! THEY FIGURED THAT WITH THE BLACK STRIPES ON THE BLACK SLEEVE THEY COULD GO DIRECTLY INTO THE AIRPORT LOUNGE/BAR AFTER LANDING AND NO ONE WOULD NOTICE THAT THEY WERE PILOTS. HEY, THESE SAT-ATL PILOTS WERE NO DUMMIES, THEY EVEN VOTED NOT TO WEAR WINGS ON THE UNIFORM.   ANYWAY, I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN INTERESTING LITTLE SIDE STORY YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT. I DON'T STILL HAVE THAT BLACK-ON-BLACK UNIFORM JACKET, BUT IF I DID I'D SEND IT TO YOU. - An ex-SAT-ATL Pilot

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