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Historic Aircraft at Airports

Vintage aircraft from various decades displayed at airports. Captures include military planes, cargo carriers, and passengers boarding, set against cloudy skies.

Vintage Photograph. TWA Super G Constellation with wing-tip fuel tanks, elongated radar nose and two separate passenger entrances.
Vintage Photograph. TWA Super G Constellation with wing-tip fuel tanks, elongated radar nose and two separate passenger entrances.
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Venezuela and the Eastern Caribbean. Venezuela Airport Maiquetia at Caracas. 1948. Caracas, VenezuelaDouglas DC-4 in Flight. ca. 1946, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, IN FLIGHT WITH CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN. 50 PASSENGER DOUGLAS DC-4 OVER CITY OF ORLEANS Flying Display And Exhibition Opens At Farnborough -- Crowds getting a close view of an Avro 707c on show at Farnborough today. Large crowds attended the 1953 Flying Display and Exhibition, a "shop window" for the products of the members of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors which opened today at Farnborough Aerodrome, Hants. September 7, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).;Flying Display And Exhibition Opens At Farnborough -- Crowds getting a close view of an Avro 707c on show at FarnboroughPoll photo collection. Person plane from Arkia Inland Airlines at the airport of Eilat. In the foreground a marking of the runway. January 1, 1963. Eilat, IsraelDollars On The Assembly Line -- Nose to tail on the assembly line are Viscounts - planes that mean dollars for Britain - at the Vickers Armstrong aircraft factory at Weybridge, Surrey. Fifteen Viscounts worth more than ***** million sterling (11½ million Canadian dollars) have been ordered by Traces-Canada Air Lines. The planes are scheduled for delivery between September, 1954, ***** April, 1955. The order climaxes two years of ***** between Vickers and ***** Canada. Viscount, powered by fourAnefo photo collection. Fleet days in Den Helder. August 18, 1961. Den HelderThree-quarter right front view of a Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star taxiing down the runway, somewhere in Korea. Its front wheel is lifted off the ground. The aircraft bears the markings of the 80th Fighter Bomber Squadron (FBS) and its wings are fitted with wing tip tanks. Muddy ground appears in the foreground beside the runway. In the background are several low buildings and some support vehicles. A blurred image of another aircraft appears in the background at the left of the image.An R.A.N. Sikorsky Helicopter drops in at HMAS ***** acts as air taxi today to take Commodore ***** Buchanan to a passing-out *****. October 26, 1954. Anefo photo collection. Preparations Hiswa in RAI, boat for Esso Motahotel. March 12, 1973. Amsterdam, Noord-HollandFlight fuel (EV007200_H)Anefo photo collection. Opening Helicopter service Rotterdam-Brussels. August 3, 1953Anefo photo collection. RAI business car exhibition. March 23, 1950. Amsterdam, Noord-HollandAnefo photo collection. Transfer of two friendships at the Irish airline Air Lingus, Mrs. Gallagher wife Irish ambassador carries out the baptism. November 19, 1958DF-SN-86-12436. Base: West Berlin Country: West Germany (FRG)Anefo photo collection. Unveiling new lifeboat in Noordwijk by Kurt Carlsen. 13 June 1953. NoordwijkAnefo photo collection. Arrival Bernhard de Vries (Provo) at Schiphol. June 27, 1966Nixon Shown Command ModuleSS ANDREA DORIA - SS STOCKHOLM Collision. Survivors of SS STOCKHOLM, after being treated at Nantucket Hospital, are transferred to a U.S. Coast Guard amphibious plane for removal to the Public Health Service Hospital at Brighton, Mass.Aviat,Meadowlark Airport OfficeIndia. kashmir. food supplies to Skardu in the region of balkistan. 1956. Trip to California: Alameda Naval Air Station, 11:00AM. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade departs Alameda Naval Air Station, following his arrival in Alameda, California.HR.MS. Flying Campschip Karel Doorman (2) (1948-1968), Welcome by Schoolband and Processing Queen