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The following is the list of purpose-built passenger jet airliners. ... 1960 1962 1965 164 1991 Tupolev Tu-144: USSR 4 1968 1977 1983 16 1999 Shanghai Y-10:
The Lone Star Flight Museum, located in Houston, Texas, is an aerospace museum that displays more than 24 historically significant aircraft, [3] and many artifacts related to the history of flight. Located at Ellington Airport , the museum is housed on about 100,000 ft 2 (10,000 m 2 ) of property, including its own airport ramp.
The aircraft was on a domestic non-scheduled passenger flight from Lawton Municipal Airport, Oklahoma, to Huntsville Regional Airport, Texas. The flight was diverted to Houston for weather. Of the 16 occupants, [125] two crew and three passengers were killed. [126]
It was headquartered near William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas. [2] Trans-Texas Airways originally operated in Texas and surrounding states. [3] In August 1953, it scheduled flights to 36 airports from El Paso to Memphis; in May 1968, TTa flew to 48 U.S. airports plus Monterrey, Tampico and Veracruz in Mexico. The airline changed its name ...
In 1958, Boeing began delivery of its 707, the United States' first commercial jet airliner, in response to the British De Havilland Comet, French Sud Aviation Caravelle and Soviet Tupolev Tu-104, which were the world's first generation of commercial jet aircraft. With the 707, a four-engine, 156-passenger airliner, the U.S. became a leader in ...
Continental Express Flight 2574 crashed near Eagle Lake in September 1991 while initiating landing. All 11 passengers and three crew members on the Embraer 120 Brasilia aircraft were killed.
Aircraft by century or decade of first flight. 19th century; 20th century; 21st century; 1900s; ... Aircraft first flown in 1960 (62 P) Aircraft first flown in 1961 ...
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