Airline Collection

Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the US, Glendale, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plant quarantine inspector examining baggage brought into the United States by plane from Mexico. Glendale, California

Plant quarantine inspectors examining baggage from Mexico, Glendale Airport, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plant quarantine inspectors examining baggage from Mexico for injurious insects. Glendale Airport, California

Plant quarantine inspectors examining plane at the Glendale Airport, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Plant quarantine inspectors examining plane at the Glendale Airport, California

Department of Agriculture plant quarantine inspectors, Glendale Airport, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Department of Agriculture plant quarantine inspectors examining Pan American Airways plane from Mexico on its arrival at the Glendale Airport, California

Airport, Glendale, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Airport. Glendale, California. [Mexican Aviation Company building]

The first Indian Air Mail arrives at Croydon Airport, south London, 1929, (1935). April 14 marked an advance in the history of aerial transport when the first Indian Air Mail arrived at Croydon

Imperial Airways Handley-Page HP 42 biplane Hanno, Gwadar, Baluchistan, c1931-c1940 (1946). By 1929, Imperial Airways Ltd. had pushed their regular weekly service from Great Britain to India

Captain Gilbert Rae, BOAC Mosquito pilot, World War II. c1939-c1944 (1946). Creator: Unknown
Captain Gilbert Rae, BOAC Mosquito pilot, World War II. c1939-c1944 (1946). Capt Gilbert Rae, BOAC Mosquito pilot, who later lost his life on the Stockholm run

Douglas DC-3, ca. 1930s. Creator: Douglas Aircraft Company
Twin-engined monoplane in Eastern Airlines livery. First flown in 1935, the Douglas DC-3 became the most successful airliner in the formative years of air transportation

Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Clipper Flying Cloud", 1938
First flown in late 1938, the Boeing 307 was the first airliner with a pressurized fuselage. It could carry 33 passengers in great comfort and cruise at 6, 096 meters (20, 000 feet)

Douglas DC-7, 1956. Creator: Douglas Aircraft Company
Forward fuselage only. Douglas DC-7; The Douglas DC-7 was an advanced development of the; DC-6B piston-engine airliner. It was introduced by American Airlines on its New York-Los Angeles route in

Model, Static, Douglas DC-7 Mainliner, United Air Lines, ca. 1955. Creator: Unknown
Model, Static, Douglas DC-7 Mainliner, United Air Lines, ca. 1955. Resin and plastic cutaway manufacturers model of a Douglas DC-7 Mainliner airliner in United Air Lines livery of white upper

Douglas M-2, 1936. Creator: Douglas Aircraft Company
Single engine, single seat, bi-plane, liberty V-12 engine; used by post office and Western Airlines. Designed to replace de Havilland DH-4s for delivering the air mail in the mid 1920s

Imperial Airways Liner, Argosy, 1934. Creator: Unknown
Imperial Airways Liner, Argosy, 1934. The Armstrong Whitworth Argosy, a three-engine biplane airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft

Imperial Airways Flying Boat Scipio, 1934. Creator: C. T. Howard
Imperial Airways Flying Boat Scipio, 1934. British seaplane

BOAC navigation officers drawing up a flight plan, World War II, c1939-c1944 (1946). Flight Plan. BOAC navigation officers plan an Atlantic crossing

Women aircraft maintenance and repair workers, South Wales, World War II, c1939-c1944 (1946). The women of South Wales played a skilled part in the maintenance

Back cover of Merchant Airmen, 1946. Creator: Unknown
Back cover of " Merchant Airmen", 1946. From " Merchant Airmen - The Air Ministry Account of British Civil Aviation, 1939-1944". [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1946]

Travelling By Air, September 1934, (1945). Creator: Unknown
Travelling By Air, September 1934, (1945). British politician and statesman Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) and his wife Clementine (1880-1977)

Focke-Wulf A 29 Mowe plane, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Focke-Wulf A 29 Mo we plane, 1932. The Mo we ( Gull ) short-range transports were produced in Germany during the late 1920s and early 1930s

Focke-Wulf A 38 Mowe plane, 1932. Creator: Unknown
Focke-Wulf A 38 Mo we plane, 1932. The Mo we ( Gull ) airliner was produced in Germany during the early 1930s. From " Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air)

Passengers boarding an Imperial Airways aircraft for a flight to Paris, c1924-c1929 (?) Artist
Passengers boarding an Imperial Airways aircraft for a flight to Paris, c1924-c1929 (?). Imperial Airways was a British airline that operated from 1924 until 1939

De Havilland DH89 aircraft used on some of the Railway Air Service routes, c1934 (c1937). Introduced in 1934, the De Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapide was a British short-haul biplane airliner for 6-8

The four Bristol Jupiter engines of the Imperial Airways liner Scylla, c1936 (c1937). Imperial Airways was an early British commercial long distance air travel company, operating from 1924 to 1939

A Swissair plane flying near St Moritz Aerodrome, Switzerland, c1936 (c1937). From Wonders of World Aviation, Vol. 1, by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd, London, c1937]

Passengers boarding one of the Junkers airliners of South African Airways, c1936 (c1937). From Wonders of World Aviation, Vol. 1, by Clarence Winchester. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd, London, c1937]

Loading mails on board an Imperial Airways liner at Croydon Airport, c1936 (c1937). Artist: GPO
Loading mails on board an Imperial Airways liner at Croydon Airport, c1936 (c1937). The mail is brought from London to the aerodrome in streamlined cars painted blue to distinguish the airmail

All clear for the start at Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, c1936 (c1937). A Lufthansa aircraft ready to take off. From Wonders of World Aviation, Vol. 1, by Clarence Winchester

Aerial equipment on the Imperial Airways liner Hengist, c1936 (c1937). Artist: Marconis Wireless Telegraph Co Ltd
Aerial equipment on the Imperial Airways liner Hengist, c1936 (c1937). The round aerial is part of the homing radio system, one of the first aerial directional finding systems

Handley-Page W. 10 Passenger-carrying aeroplane operating on Imperial Airways, 1929
Handley-Page W.10 Passenger-carrying aeroplane operating on Imperial Airways, 1929. The W.10 was a medium-range biplane airliner designed and built by Handley Page

Short Empire flying boat Corinthian, Alexandria, Egypt, c1938-c1941. 42 Empire class flying boats were built by Short Brothers at their factory in Rochester, Kent, the first flying in 1936

British European Airways Elizabethan class aeroplane, 20th century. The BEA Elizabethan plane was buit in 1949 by the English and regularly flew rich people to and from Germany

Imperial Airways Ltd Ensign Air Liner, c1930s

Cabin of a De Havilland DH86B biplane, c1934 (c1937). View inside the cabin of a De Havilland DH86 Express airliner showing the ten seats upholstered in blue leather

Aeroflot, 1964. Artist: Victor Asseriants
Aeroflot, 1964

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