Apr 2, 2018 · Three of the C-75s, Apache, Comanche and Zuni, had made a total of 120 transatlantic crossings. TWA’s five Stratoliners compiled a nearly perfect safety record during …

The Boeing Model 307 Stratoliner (or Strato-Clipper in Pan American service, or C-75 in USAAF service) is an American stressed-skin four-engine low-wing tailwheel monoplane airliner …

Three were given to Pan Am (named Clipper Flying Cloud, Clipper Comet, and Clipper Rainbow) and five to TWA (named Comanche, Cherokee, Zuni, Navajo, and Apache). One went to …

The scale of the Stratoliner is evident in this photograph of a graduating class of flight attendants, taken in 1940. The aircraft, NC19907, was delivered to TWA on May 10, 1940. Each of TWA's …

TWA's Stratoliners flew three-stop flights between Los Angeles and New York while Pan Am's flew from Miami to Latin America. Ten 307s were built, three being delivered to Pan-Am …

May 24, 1952; Zuni, New Mexico (BBU) At 1:27 a.m. MST, the pilot, Glenn Bras, of a TWA airliner observed two torpedo shaped objects appear directly in front of the aircraft. The objects …

On February 26, 1942, Transcontinental & Western Air’s (TWA) fleet of five Boeing 307 Stratoliners were requisitioned by the U.S. Army Air Forces and converted into C-75 military …

Apr 17, 2013 · December 7, 1941 as we know was the horrible day America was attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. Shortly thereafter congress and FDR declared war which became …

TWA Boeing SA-307B NC19907 'Zuni' 402 landing with slotted flaps lowered, prewar