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Vintage Airliners

Historic black and white photographs of classic airliners at airports, capturing mid-20th century aviation.

Vintage photograph. The ramp manager runs clear after checking out DC4 airliner of the Scandinavian airways
Vintage photograph. The ramp manager runs clear after checking out DC4 airliner of the Scandinavian airways
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Anefo photo collection. Printed at Schiphol. August 9, 1961. Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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The Future of Travel Description: Photograph of Frankfurt airport collected by the Joint Intelligence Bureau Library. Date: Before 1937 sepia, airport, frankfurt, aircraft, aviation, transport, zeppelin, autobahn, mercedesbenz, airship, hindenburg, fra, dirigible, lighterthanair, rheinmain, frankfurtairport, eddf, luftschiff, reichsbahn, rheinmainairbase, dzr, flughafenfrankfurtammain, rheinmainflughafen, frankfurtammainairport, dlz129, lz129, rheinmainab, deutschezeppelinreederei, luftschiffbauzeppelin, deutscheluftschiffahrtsaktiengesellschaft, delag, zeppelinlz129, lz129hindenburg, luftschifflz129
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fiat 1100 special in aeroporto, 1962
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A Marine Corps C-20D Gulfstream III aircraft carrying Secretary of the Navy H. Lawrence Garrett III taxis along the runway near three F/A-18A Hornet aircraft during Fleet Ex 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Base: Nas, Roosevelt Roads State: Puerto Rico (PR) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Anefo photo collection. Exhibition 50 years KLM in Utrecht. A model of a Boeing Jumbo Jet. 24 July 1969. Utrecht (Prov), Utrecht (city)
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12/31/1969. Crew of a "Caravell" aircraft of the Aviaco company, in the seventies.
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Colonial Airlines Skycruiser arriving at Bermuda from New York (less than 4 hours away) Date: circa 1940s
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Beechcraft Super 18
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Transport of a Canadian saking helicopter to the MarineLiegkamp de Kooy in Den Helder.
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Production line T.B.V. The (license) construction of Gloster Meteor F.MK .4 Hunting aircraft from the Royal Netherlands Air Force (KLU) in the Aviolaland aircraft factory around 1950. Detail shot of the nose wheel. Various aircraft for the KLU and the Marine Aastery Service (MLD) (fellow) were built and maintained by Aviolanda.
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Flying Aeroplanes By Heat - Jet Propulsion Enables Planes to fly without either engines or propellers. October 01, 1938.
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Paris International Air Show 1953. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Trailers with construction material, foreground, and a C-130 Hercules aircraft, background, stand on an airfield after road graders partially cleaned the area of ashes in the aftermath of the eruption of Mount Pinatubo, a volcano that came alive on June 10th for the first time in over 600 years. Base: Naval Air Station, Cubi Point Country: Philippines
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Saab Safir Teaching aircraft from the Rijksvaartschool op Eelde.
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Air views of Palestine. Flight from Gaza to Cairo via Ismalieh. Large 'Hannibal' plane on Gaza aerodrome. Ready to take off for Heliopolis. 1932, Gaza Strip
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Moscow airport with planes from the national Aeroflot airline. 1965
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Anefo photo collection. New garbage truck at Schiphol. January 22, 1962. Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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Poll photo collection. Corporate identity and emblems KLM. The emblem of "the flying Dutchman" on the side of the KLM fleet planes. August 1951. Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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The wooden scale model of the Concorde at the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) facility in Bristol.
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Anefo photo collection. Dutch Gloster Meteor Mk.IV jet hunter of the Royal Netherlands Air Force at Volendam crevoted or emergency landing. September 28, 1949. Noord-Holland, Volendam
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Anefo photo collection. Assignment Municipality of Amsterdam, artwork "The Long Hum", hanging on Helicopter, is placed in Gijsbrecht van Aemstelpark. March 7, 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Lisbon (Portugal), 1965 (Ca.) Portela Airport, opened in 1940 and still in operation. It is the largest in Portugal.
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Poll photo collection. Corporate identity and emblems KLM. The emblem of "the flying Dutchman" on the side of the KLM fleet planes. August 1951. Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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Aviation - Qantas Airways - Aircraft - Flying Boats. October 16, 1945. (Photo by Qantas Empire Airways Limited).
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Maritime Central Airways , Airplanes, Airlines, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Vintage Photograph. Boeing 747 in flight over mountains.
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A Douglas Dakota of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock. A Douglas Dakota of BOAC, silhouetted by night at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as it is prepared for a flight to the United Kingdom.
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To The Office - By Helicopter -- The helicopter touching down in Regent's Park this morning - after a journey which took some 12 minutes only.Mr. G.S. Lindgren, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Civil Aviation, went to his office by helicopter this morning. Mr. Lindgren lives at Welwyn Garden City, and climbed into the machine only a few yards from his garden, landing in Regen's Park from whence he completed the journey by car. The Government is buying three helicopters, and Mr. Lindgren was making observations and recording his impressions on the flight. June 27, 1947. (Photo by Fox).
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Municipal Airport (Owens Field), Columbia, S. C. , Airports, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Anefo photo collection. Oosterscheldedam presence guests Delta completed; Fokker Friendships fly Oosterscheldedam (damaged). October 4, 1986
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Anefo photo collection. Airship Europe from Good-Year at Schiphol. July 24, 1973. Noord-Holland, Schiphol
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Vintage Photograph. Men seen through cockpit of Bell Helicopter 47J
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USA, Arizona, Yuma, Yuma Landing, Mural
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This small group of unidentified officials is dwarfed by the gigantic size of the Saturn V first stage (S-1C) at the shipping area of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The towering 363-foot Saturn V was a multi-stage, multi-engine launch vehicle standing taller than the Statue of Liberty. Altogether, the Saturn V engines produced as much power as 85 Hoover Dams.
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Postcard of a Transport Squadron. ca. 1951, Aviones C-47 de un Escuadron de Transporte, listos para su eficaz mision. C-47 Airplanes of a Transport Squadron Ready for a Mission.
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Northrop Grumman (Fairchild) A-10 Thunderbolt at the Static Show of the International Aviation Exhibition at Le Bourget airport.
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Wien jet. Alaska Task Force Photographs