Trans World Airlines facts for kids

TWA logo (1975-1996)

A TWA Boeing 747

Trans World Airlines (TWA) was one of the largest airlines of the United States. It stopped flying after it was bought by American Airlines in 2001, after many financial problems.

Images for kids

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  Lindbergh Line DC-2

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  TWA coast-to-coast schedules and route map, September, 1933

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  Experimental TWA test aircraft

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  A TWA Douglas DC-3 is prepared for takeoff from Columbus, Ohio, in 1940.

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  TWA Air Mail & Express service. March, 1943

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  C-69-1-LO / L-049 Constellation, c/n 1970, formerly 42-94549, painted as "Star of Switzerland" of TWA, on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum

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  The TWA Corporate Headquarters' Building in Kansas City, Missouri with TWA Moonliner II atop its southwest corner from 1956–62 replicating the TWA Moonliner Tomorrowland attraction at Disneyland

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  TWA's maintenance hangar at Philadelphia airport, built in 1956, from an undated photo from Historic American Engineering Record

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  TWA added the Convair 880 jet airliner to its US-based fleet beginning in 1960.

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  The Trans World Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York

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  TWA operated Boeing 707 single-aisle jets in the 1960s.

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  TWA Boeing 747SP at Heathrow Airport in 1983

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  TWA operated the L-1011 TriStar wide-body jetliner

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  At its heyday, TWA operated a fleet of 747-100 aircraft. This aircraft N93119 would later blow up in midair as TWA Flight 800.

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  One City Centre in downtown St. Louis, which at one time served as the headquarters of TWA

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  A TWA 757-231 in an AA/TWA Hybrid livery to promote their merger

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  The American Airlines Boeing 737-800 in TWA heritage livery (registered N915NN) is shown here taxiing to the American Airlines terminal at Miami International Airport in February 2017, more than 16 years after TWA proper ceased to exist

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  Passengers from the hijacked TWA plane arrive at Lod.

See also

In Spanish: Trans World Airlines para niños