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Today I’m showing one of my EBay finds:  A 1961 TWA Bond for $1000.

This bond was issued in 1961 and would pay the amount on June 1st, 1978.

Unfortunately, my flatbed scanner is just a bit too short to fully scan this, so the bottom is cut off.  Sorry about that.

Today I present the 1991 version of the L1011 safety card.

Love the in flight photo on the front.  Classic.

You might recall this entry, where I talked about a visit I had to JFK from PHX.  I went mostly to take pictures of JFK, and especially, TWA aircraft, since we here in PHX only saw the occasional L1011 usually, with a lot of 727′s and MD-80′s.

Here are a few more pictures from that trip.

Here is a TWA 747, N133TW (Fleet #17133), ex-Iberia.

Another TWA 747, N134TW (Fleet #17134), also ex-Iberia.

Other 747, but do not know the tail number.  Tried to be artistic with this picture, if you couldn’t tell.

Finally, here are a couple close ups of some TWA L-1011′s.  This was always my favorite aircraft.  Enjoy!

This update is the front page from the December 18th, 1992 issue of the employee newsletter, TWA Skyliner.

This was the issue that talked about the infamous removal of Carl Icahn.  With this, Carl loaned TWA $200 million dollars to keep operating, among other things.

Unfortunately, I had to scan the front page in two parts, as my scanner isn’t large enough to scan newspapers in one sweep.

Enjoy!

Thanks to ampicoab at YouTube, we have a video that documents the last flight of TWA’s 727.

Of course, a little trivia: This plane is the one that was involved in the infamous TWA Flight 840 hijacking in Athens.

Here is TWA’s January 1994 schedule.

Not a lot noteworthy, as far as I can tell, but a couple of things:

• This was back when they had “TWA Comfort Class”, with more room in coach.  Didn’t fly a lot during this time, but I did a couple of times, and there was more legroom.  Also the 767′s had the foot rests in coach; not bad.
• A couple of ‘one-off’ flights out of the PHX base that I noticed, since that is where I lived.  They removed the red-eye to STL.  They also removed the Flight 731 from JFK to LAS, and changed it to continue on to SAN.     Returned in the morning.
• SAN also had it’s red-eye to STL stop in LAS before continuing on.

For awhile, they had the flight from JFK->PHX  continue on to LAX as a 767.  I would use that to take the red-eye from LAX->STL.  Made for a long trip!

As always, click on the images for larger versions.

Coming off the heals of the recent post of TWA’s L1011 Safety Video, I present the TWA 747 Safety video, courtesy of ptarr767.

According to this post at the AirlinersGallery.com, the Museum of Flight in Washington State has purchased the TWA DC-2.

Copyright Photos: N1934D carries a fake (and larger) NC1311 registration. The official FAA N1934D registration is seen in a smaller scale on the rear fuselage. It is now on display at the museum. (Joe G. Walker)

Good to see that a classic plane will have a great home!

I present TWA’s L-1011 Safety Video..

By the way, for those of you looking for a decent “YouTube-like” service, but with better quality, I recommend Vimeo. The quality of the video is not degraded unlike YouTube.

Well, we’re back from Southern California, and had a great time.  Got to hang out with the wife for our 7th wedding anniversary, went to Disneyland to ride the new Finding Nemo Submarine Ride, went deep-sea fishing, and also went to the LA Airline Memorabilia show.

I did pick up a few TWA items.  Mostly schedules, though.  They did have some nice TWA models, though.  I had my eye on a TWA L1011, and even had purchase authority from the wife, but really wouldn’t have space to display it in my current office, so it will just have to wait until I have a bigger house.

Today’s update is TWA’s schedule from May 1992.  The major news in this one is TWA’s announced service to Moscow, via Brussels.  Not sure how successful this was, though, since it didn’t seem to stay around too long.  According to a TWA Skyliner issue I have talking about it, it was using a 727-232.

I’ve included the handy-dandy gate maps that they included in the back of this schedule.

As always, click for a larger image.