The Flying Tiger Line, headquartered at Los Angeles International Airport, was the first scheduled air cargo line in the U.S. Robert William Prescott, an ace pilot for the Flying Tigers AVG during WWII, and nine other pilots from the same AVG founded the company after the war in 1945 with financial investment from oil tycoon Samuel B. Mosher. By the 1950s, they had become the largest trans-Atlantic charter operation, transporting militray troops and supplies during the Korean War, refugees, and unusual commercial items such as rare flowers, IBM machines, and exotic animals up until 1989.