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  2. Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1946 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, including providing support for drug smuggling in Laos.

  3. Aug 10, 1990 · Air America: Directed by Roger Spottiswoode. With Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins. A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict.

  4. Air America (formerly Air America Radio and Air America Media) was an American radio network specializing in progressive talk radio. It was on the air from March 2004 to January 2010. The network was founded as a left–wing alternative to counter talk radio with a right–wing perspective.

  5. Air America is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr. as Air America pilots flying missions in Laos during the Vietnam War. When the protagonists discover their aircraft is being used by government agents to smuggle heroin, they must avoid being framed as the drug-smugglers.

  6. Aug 15, 2021 · By August 1950, the airline was secretly bought by the CIA. This gave the intelligence agency the means to covertly operate in the air in a region of significant interest to the USA. In 1959, the CIA changed CAT's name to Air America.

  7. Synopsis. Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and ...

  8. Nov 11, 2022. Rated: D • Aug 12, 2010. Rated: 1/5 • Aug 31, 2006. Rated: 3/5 • Oct 8, 2005. Despite having just had his Los Angeles pilot's license revoked, Billy Covington (Robert Downey Jr.) is...

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