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| Founded | March 1946 | ||||||
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| Commenced operations | November 1946 | ||||||
| Ceased operations | 24 September 1964 | ||||||
| Operating bases | Cape May County Airport Oakland | ||||||
| Fleet size | 14 (see below) | ||||||
| Destinations | See below | ||||||
| Headquarters | Wildwood, New Jersey United States | ||||||
| Key people | Dr Ralph Cox, Jr. | ||||||
| Employees | 500 | ||||||
| Notes | |||||||
(1) IATA, ICAO codes were the same until the 1980s | |||||||
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Note B-29 in the background
United States Overseas Airlines (USOA) was a supplemental air carrier founded and controlled by Dr. Ralph Cox Jr, a dentist turned aviator, based at Cape May County Airport in Wildwood, New Jersey, where it had a substantial operation.[2] It was one of the larger and more capable of the supplemental airlines, also known as irregular air carriers, during a period where such airlines were not simply charter carriers but could also provide a limited amount of scheduled service. USOA's operations included scheduled flights that spanned the Pacific. However, in the early 1960s USOA fell into significant financial distress leading to its 1964 shuttering by the Civil Aeronautics Board, the defunct federal agency that, at the time, controlled almost all commercial air transportation in the United States.
Cox pursued USOA-related litigation for at least 14 years after the collapse of the carrier, almost as much time as the airline existed.