On 25 April 1926, a young pilot and flight instructor named Charles Lindbergh joined the Missouri-based Robertson Aircraft Corporation to fly mail on a route between St. Louis and Chicago. This first flight was the humble beginning of what is now the world's largest airline in terms of the number of passengers carried and flights operated daily. After numerous mergers and acquisitions, the conglomerate of airlines was brought together in 1930 under the name American Airways, before being renamed American Air Lines four years later. Fittingly, American has applied the historic "flagship" colour scheme to its current flagship, the Boeing 777-300ER. The iconic orange lightning bolt motif made its debut on the Douglas DC-3 almost 90 years ago. All DC-3s were named after cities that the airline flew to at the time, such as "Flagship Knoxville", which is on display at the CR Smith Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. This special anniversary Triple Seven will initially be released by Herpa in the scales 1:500 and 1:200.
True-to-scale and true-to-original small model for adult collectors.
Not a toy! Not suitable for children under the age of 14!
HERPA Miniaturmodelle GmbH Leonrodstr. 46-47 90599 Dietenhofen Deutschland
