GCVA 20th Anniversary!
GCVA turned 20 years old on May 29th, 2024!
20 years ago, Ralph Tofflemire, the maker of 747 Ready For Pushback (RFP) started Virtual Atlas Air (VAA) as an outlet to operate the aircraft in a realistic way. Some years later the name was changed to Virtual Globe Cargo and finally Globe Cargo Virtual Airlines.
Some of our past logos (unfortunately, a VAA logo couldn't be found):
In that same time, our real-world counterpart has seen some big changes as well. Atlas Air and Polar Air Cargo merged and later bought and merged Southern Air into the operation. The late 2000's had DHL owning 49% of Polar resulting in DHL hybrid liveries.
This is quite a remarkable feat that puts GCVA among the oldest VA's in existance.
We would like to thank all of our staff, past and present as well as all of our members, both past and present for helping us make it this long!