Animals Transported by Seaboard & Western / Seaboard World Airlines
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Whirling Ruston, a French filly, is being led down the ramp backwards after arriving on the first flight from Europe to land at Idlewild,
July 9th, 1948. A few hours later, the same aircraft departed on the first flight from Idlewld to Europe.
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Photo courtesy of Capt. David Hill
Rhesus monkeys imported from India for research that led to the Salk polio vaccine. Shown here being loaded onto a DC‑4.
Baby elephant being loaded in Bombay onto a DC-4
Photo courtesy of Capt. Ed Mitchell
Elephants on a DC-4
In 1956, Seaboard flew this Andalusian donkey and baby elephant on a DC‑4 from London to New York.
The donkey was a gift from the Spanish government to David Eisenhower, the president's grandson.
The photo appeared in over 500 newspapers and magazines.
Cows being loaded onto a DC-4
Another view of cows being loaded onto a DC-4
Racehorse on a DC-4
Cheetahs in a shipping cage
Cow being unloaded from a DC-8-63CF, 1974
Photo courtesy of Capt. Ed Mitchell
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