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Acronym of Military Air Transport Service. (a consolidation of the US Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) and the United States Air Force Transport Command (ATC) that functioned from June 1 1948 to January 1, 1966). quotations examples
At the controls was Capt. Bill Laughlin, a veteran MATS aircraft commander and his chief pilot in the 41st Air Transport Squadron.
1961 January, T.J. Slaybaugh, “Searched, Sighted, Saved”, in Airman, page 8
I guess I really learned that a long time ago, when MATS first began teaching me, but I had overlooked it lately.
1961 November, Jan A. Wells, “A Dangerous Attitude”, in The MATS Flyer, volume 8, number 11, page 26
For the first ten years of its existence MATS operate with three major air transport divisions that physically circled the globe.
1964, Stanley M. Ulanoff, MATS: The Story of the Military Air Transport Service, page 56