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TWA World airlines Wikipedia linkTrans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline which operated from 1930 until 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City
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TWA's corporate history dates from July 16, 1930, and the forced merger of Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), Western Air Express (WAE), Maddux Air Lines, Standard, and Pittsburgh Aviation Industries Corporation (PAIC) to form Transcontinental & Western Air (T&WA) on 1 Oct. 1930. The companies merged at the urging of Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, who was looking for bigger airlines to give airmail contracts to. The airline brought high-profile aviation pioneers who would give the airline the panache of being called "The Airman's Airline". TAT had the marquee expertise of Charles Lindbergh and was already offering a 48-hour combination of plane and train trips across the United States. WAE had the expertise of Jack Frye. TWA became known as "The Lindbergh Line", with the "Shortest Route Coast to Coast".: 6–7, 10, 14, 20 On October 25, 1930, the airline offered one of the first all-plane scheduled services from coast to coast. The route took 36 hours, which included an overnight stay in Kansas City. In summer 1931, TWA moved its headquarters from New York to Kansas City, Missouri.
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Aircraft Inventory TWA aircraft.
Trans World Airlines fleet
(at time of acquisition)
Airbus A318-100 — 50 TBA Order cancelled by American Airlines
Boeing 717-200 29 21 16 – 95 111
Boeing 757-200 27 — – 22 158 180
Boeing 767-300ER 9 — 30 – 178 208
McDonnell Douglas MD-82 39 — TBA
McDonnell Douglas MD-83 64 — – 12 132 144
Aircraft former Inventory Flying boats
Boeing 307 Stratoliner 5 1940 1951
Boeing 707-120 59 1960 1983
Boeing 707-320 67
Boeing 720B 4 1961 1962
Boeing 727-100 35 1964 1993
Boeing 727-200 61 1968 2000
Boeing 747-100 25 1970 One crashed as TWA Flight 800
Boeing 747-200B 7 1984 1998
Boeing 747SP 3 1979 1986
Boeing 767-200 12 1982 2001
Consolidated Fleetster 1 Unknown Unknown
Convair 880 28 1960 1974
Curtiss Kingbird 1 1933 Unknown
Curtiss C-46 Commando 1 1942 1942 Leased from United States Army Air Force
Curtiss T-32 Condor II 3 1929 1931
Douglas DC-1 1 1933 1936 Operated the only DC-1 ever built
Douglas DC-2 31 1934 1942
Douglas DC-3 104 1937 1957
Douglas C-47 Skytrain
Douglas C-54 Skymaster 14 1946 1961
Fairchild C-82 Packet 1 Unknown Unknown
Fokker Universal 1 1930 1930
Fokker F-10 8 1931 Unknown
Fokker F-14 2 Unknown
Fokker F-32 2 Unknown
Ford 5-AT-DS Trimotor 22 Unknown 1936
Lockheed L-12 Electra Junior 1 1940 1945
Lockheed L-049 Constellation 40 1945 1962 One written off as TWA Flight 6963
Lockheed L-749 Constellation 12 1948 1968
Lockheed L-749A Constellation 28 1950
Lockheed L-1649A Starliner 30 1957 1967
Lockheed L-1011 Tristar 41 1972 1997 One written off as TWA Flight 843
Lockheed L-1329 JetStar 3 Unknown Unknown Business jet
Lockheed Orion 4 1931 Unknown
Lockheed Vega 4 Unknown Unknown
Martin 2-0-2A 12 1950 1959
Martin 4-0-4 40 1950 1961 One written off as TWA Flight 400
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31/32 38 1986 2001
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-41 3 1999
McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 12 1993
Northrop Alpha 14 1931 1935
Sikorsky S-61L 1 Unknown
Unknown Helicopter
Stearman C3B 1 Unknown Unknown
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Ongoing heritage
On December 16, 2013, Doug Parker, CEO of American Airlines Group, announced that TWA heritage aircraft would be added in the future, "We will continue that tradition at American, including introducing a TWA aircraft in the future and keeping a US Airways livery aircraft. That also means we will keep a heritage American livery in the fleet". On November 16, 2015, American painted a 737-823 in the TWA livery (with American titles, as shown to the right). The last of the TWA MD-83s stayed in service until September 2019. This was the last Trans World Airlines, Inc. aircraft in the American Airlines fleet.
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General characteristics
Crew: 5 (Pilot, Copilot, Navigator, Flight Engineer, Radio Operator)Capacity: 47-106 PassengersLength: 113 ft 7 in (34.62 m)Wingspan: 123 ft (37 m)Height: 24 ft 9 in (7.54 m)Wing area: 1,650 sq ft (153 m2)
Powerplant
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- Empty weight: 26,407 lb (11,978 kg)
- Gross weight: 48,540 lb (22,017 kg)
- Max takeoff weight: (26,082 kg)
- Powerplant:
- 4 × Wright R-3350 972-TC-18DA-1 Duplex-Cyclone 18-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines, 3,250 hp (2,420 kW) each
- Propellers: 3-bladed Hamilton Standard Hydromatic 43H60, 16 ft 10 in (5.13 m) diameter constant-speed fully-feathering Duralumin propellers
Specifications
Maximum speed: 330 mph (530 km/h, 290 kn)
Cruise speed: 304 mph (489 km/h, 264 kn)
Range: 5,150 mi (8,290 km, 4,480 nmi)Service ceiling: 25,700 ft (7,800 m)
Armament
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