Trans World Airlines

Fort Lauderdale, April 27, 2000. Our 757-231 N726TW on the ramp in globe livery. She was delivered new to us in November 1999 and moved over to American with the merger in 2001. Photo: Ken Fielding, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons #FlyTWA

Los Angeles, December 7, 1982. Our 707-331B N8732 climbing out of 24L, a Pan Am TriStar rolling behind her. Anybody else still hear that StarStream roar when a jet rolls past? She joined us in 1969 and later gave her parts to the KC-135 program. Photo: Ted Quackenbush, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons #FlyTWA

Chicago O'Hare, July 1973. Our L-1011 TriStar N31009, two months after she joined our fleet, wearing the original twin-globe look on her tail. She flew for us for 20 years before moving on to Air Ops in 1993. Photo: Jon Proctor, GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons #FlyTWA

Our 767-300ER N691LF taxiing at Miami on April 25, 2000. She began life with Condor in 1991, joined us in February 1994, and stayed until the American merger in 2001. Did you ever fly with us out of Miami? Photo: Ken Fielding, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons #FlyTWA

Athens, June 1985. Our Boeing 747SP-31 N57203 holding short at Hellinikon. The SP was a shortened, longer-range 747, and we flew three of them from 1980 until they joined American Airlines in 1986. #FlyTWA

St. Louis, July 2001. Our Boeing 717-231 N420TW on the ramp at Lambert. The 717 was the last new airplane type to join our fleet, and it carried our globe livery through our final year. Did you ever fly with us on a 717? #FlyTWA

Our Moonliner II, restored and standing at the National Airline History Museum in Kansas City. From 1956 it sat atop our Kansas City headquarters, a 22-foot little sister to the 76-foot TWA Moonliner in Disneyland's Tomorrowland, which imagined a trip to the Moon in the far-off year of 1986. #FlyTWA

Chicago O'Hare, September 1959. Passengers board our Lockheed L-1649A Starliner N7316C, our "Jetstream." The Starliner was the last and longest-legged Constellation, built to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. #FlyTWA

Paris, July 1987. Our Boeing 727-31 N859TW "Star of Paris" at Charles de Gaulle. Our 727s worked routes across the U.S. and Europe for decades, and that tri-jet sound was unmistakable. #FlyTWA

Boston, August 1990. Our MD-82 N954U taxiing past the harbor. The MD-80s were the backbone of our domestic flying in the '90s, with many of them working out of St. Louis. Did you ever connect through St. Louis with us? #FlyTWA

Loading up our Douglas DC-1 "City of Los Angeles" around 1934. Douglas built just one DC-1, and they built it for us. It led straight to the DC-2 and DC-3. #FlyTWA