The tragic crash of Eastern Airlines Flight 66 in 1975 spurred crucial safety improvements, saving countless lives in the ...

The rise of FedEx Corp. from a startup express carrier with a few aircraft to the largest air cargo airline in the world and ...

The world's only Douglas DC-1 first flew on July 1, 1933, by Carl Cover. After half a year of testing and performing over 200 test flights (and out competing the Ford Trimotor and the Fokker ...

Trans World Airlines led the way as one of America's major airlines from 1930 to 2001. The influence TWA has had on the world and locally, is one that history can't ignore.

Trans World Airlines . Getty Images. Lifespan: 1930–2001 . Born of a government-mandated merger between Western Air and Transcontinental Air Transport in 1930, the carrier didn’t become Trans ...

For the past seven years, elusive Industrialist Howard Hughes and Trans World Airlines have been tangled in a complex legal battle. The conflict dates back to late 1960, when Hughes, in return for ...

Airline-owned terminals, such as the Saarinen Trans World Flight Center, are less common; instead, the biggest airlines work with municipal owners to “update” terminals such that they resemble ...

July 17, 1996: A Trans World Airlines flight crashed in the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, N.Y., on its way to Paris. All 230 people on board were killed, and the airplane was destroyed.

Trans World Airlines. Founded as Transcontinental Air Transport in 1929, Trans World Airlines was Kansas City’s first, operating out of what is now the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport.

The “big one,” as Embry‑Riddle Aeronautical University professor Robert Joslin calls it, happened over the Grand Canyon in 1956 when United Airlines Flight 718 collided with Trans World ...