Airline and Airliner Milestones and Models

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August

Graf Zeppelin 'Round the World Flight
August 8 - 29, 1929*

First Flight Bristol Britannia
August 16, 1952*

First Flight Bac 1-11
August 20, 1963*

September

First Flight Bristol Brabazon
September 4, 1949*

Douglas DC-8 enters service with United and Delta
September 18, 1959*

First Flight Boeing 767
September 26, 1981*

Boeing 767 enters service with United Airlines
September 8, 1982*

October

Sikorsky S-38 enters service With Pan American
October 1928

First Flight Junkers Ju 52
October 13, 1930*
Entered Service 1931

Boeing 707 enters service with Pan Am
October 26, 1958*

First Flight Learjet 23
October 7, 1963

First Flight Airbus A-300
October 29, 1972*

ATR-72 enters service with Kar Air
October 27, 1989*

First Flight Airbus A-340
October 25, 1991*

November

First Flight Junkers G-38
November 6, 1929*

Flight of Hughes Spruce Goose
November 2, 1947*

First Flight Fokker F-27
November 24, 1955*

First Flight of Boeing 720
November 23, 1959*

First Flight of Lockheed L-1011 Tristar
November 16, 1970*

First Flight Airbus A-330
November 2, 1992*

Concord Retired from Service
November 26, 2003*

December

First Flight Boeing Model 6
December 27, 1919*

First Flight Douglas DC-3
December 17, 1935*

First Flight Lockheed L-188A Electra
December 6, 1957*

Douglas DC-9-10 enters service with Delta
December 8, 1965*

First Flight Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
December 15, 2009
Entering Service with All Nippon sometime in 2010

Douglas DC-9/MD80

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Airlines of the 1960's

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Classic American Airliners

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Welsh Models WCA DC-3

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Skyline Airbus A300

$37.99

Model Craft PSA L1011

$25.99

Gemini Jets BAC 1-11

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Glencoe 1/144 Pan Am
Martin M130 Clipper

$64.99

Minicraft 1/200 TWA HK-4

$29.99

Flightminitures 1/200 B787-8

$20.99

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Minicraft 1/144 United
Douglas DC-8-71

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Aviation 400 DHL DC-8-73

$29.99

Skymarks 1/200 Delta
DC-8-71

Sale $26.99

Gemini Jets 1/400 Hawaiian
B767-300

$28.99

Aviation 400 Alitalia
B767-300

$28.99

Hasegawa 1/200
L1011 No Decals

$19.99

Minicraft 1/200
"Spruce Goose"

$24.99

Gemini Jets 1/400
A330-200 Northwest

$29.99

Minicraft 1/144
DC-3 FAA

$15.99