After spending more than three years refurbishing a Lockheed Vega — a collector’s item — pilot John Magoffin  took his baby out for a spin. Magoffin, an American Airlines pilot who ...

PHOTO: PROCTOR-LIVESEY-THOMAS COLLECTION On 29 September 1959, a Braniff Electra fell from the night sky en route from Houston to Dallas. Before the investigation for that accident was complete, a ...

Cooper (or Dan Cooper) hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 during its ... over the western Pacific Ocean on March 16, 1962. The Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation propliner was ...

All 78 people aboard died. An improperly installed device to boost power to the wing ailerons that control flight caused a ...

All 78 people aboard died. Witnesses described explosions, screams, high flames, and then billowing clouds of jet fuel after a Northwest Orient Airlines Electra crashed about one minute after ...

When Donald William Nyrop was elected president of Northwest Airlines in 1954 ... for Northwest’s $67 million jet fleet of ten Lockheed Electras, which go into service this year, and five ...

DALLAS — Today in 1957, the Lockheed L-188 Electra ... with Eastern Airlines (EA) on January 12, 1959, after a pilot strike at AA delayed its entry into service with the launch customer. Early ...

His father had worked for Lockheed pre-WW II ... Initially hired by United Airlines in 1965, Philip joined pilot training at Northwest Orient Airlines in January 1966. In the years that followed, his ...

A few months before aviator Charles Lindbergh made his record-breaking transatlantic flight, Northwest Airways, Inc. began carrying airmail between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Minnesota ...

HIGHFILL -- Northwest Arkansas National Airport officials say they're going to make another effort to recruit Southwest Airlines to the airport next year. Airport officials said Tuesday they're ...