Original vintage advertising poster: In flight with TWA ... the Constellation featuring a Colorfoto by TWA ... Trans World Airlines plane flying in a cloudy sky with the land visible below. The Lockheed Constellation (1943-1958; "Connie") was a four engine propeller airline with a triple tail design and dolphin shaped fuselage built by Lockheed Corporation at Burbank California used as a civil airliner and for military and civil air transport during the 1948-1949 Berlin Airlift and the 1967-1970 Biafran Airlift and as the presidential aircraft for the US President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969). Trans World Airlines was founded as Western Air Express in 1918 and became one of the largest American airlines after the US flag carrier Pan Am; in 2001 the company was declared bankrupt and acquired by American Airlines. Horizontal. Very good condition, restored tears and creases, backed on linen.
