Key Books

Douglas DC-3 NOTE: Previously published as Aeroplane Classic Airliner: The Douglas DC-3. Although many early aircraft were designed to carry passen...

Concorde NOTE: Previously published as Aeroplane Classic Airliner: Concorde. The desire for airliners that could fly faster and higher than all tha...

China Airlines The roots of China Airlines can be found in mainland China (the People’s Republic of China). After several attempts to set up nation...

Douglas DC-8 The Douglas DC-8, which began life in the 1950s as the Douglas Model 1881, became available to airliners a year after the first Boeing...

Cubana In October 2022, Cubana de Aviación celebrated its 93rd birthday. The flag carrier of Cuba has been on a very colourful journey since its fo...

Iran Air: Flying the Homa The first Iranian airline was started in 1924 by German Hugo Junkers. When the Junkers company closed in 1936, Iranian mi...

Lockheed Constellation NOTE: This is a new edition of Aeroplane Classic Airliner Constellation Prompted by a request from business magnate Howard ...

Flybe Established in 1979 as Jersey European Airways from the merger of Intra Airways and Express Air Services, by the start of the 21st century, F...

EgyptAir Established in the 1930s by Egyptian and British investors, and now thriving in its eighth decade, EgyptAir began life as Misr Airwork, co...

Dan-Air Dan-Air began almost by accident: with an aircraft received for a loan payment that wasn’t honoured. With the means to fly aircraft parts ...

Lockheed L-188 Electra In January 1955, an industry-wide call from American Airlines for a new aircraft resulted in Lockheed’s newest creation – th...

Monarch Airlines Monarch Airlines was founded in June 1967 and began operations from Luton Airport in April 1968, using two Bristol Britannias to f...

Mahan Air With 70 aircraft in its service and 34 of them currently airworthy, Mahan Air is Iran’s largest and most successful airline, transporting...

Vickers Viscount First flown in 1948 and in service from 1953, the Viscount was manufactured to help transform the commercial travel market. In tot...

Airbus A400M Atlas The Airbus A400M is a medium-lift turboprop military transport aircraft currently in service with the air forces of France, Germ...

Air France At 90: France’s Largest Airline Founded in 1933, Air France is that country’s largest airline with 211 aircraft at its disposal, compris...

Delta Air Lines Delta Air Lines is one of the world’s longest serving and most successful carriers. With a fleet of more than 900 aircraft serving ...

El Al The history of El Al, the Israeli national flag carrier, dates back to September 1948, when a former Israeli Air Force C-54B-15-DO Skymaster ...

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 McDonnell Douglas was formed in 1967 when the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation, the company that produced the F-4 Phantom sup...

Boeing 727   Two years before the introduction of the Boeing 707 into service in 1958, designers at Boeing began to work on a short-/medium-range a...

CSA Czech Airlines: 100 Years in the Air Having recently celebrated its 100th birthday, through its history ČSA Czech Airlines has had to repeatedl...