Donated by Armand Arel - Panagra fam trip to South America in May of 1963
Standing from Left to Right: Joe McGuiness, Regional Manager West Coast; Mike Merlini, Tour Manager for Panagra; Berto Meneghini, top producing travel agent in Chile; Chile's Minister of the Interior (name unknown); Lady res staff in Miami - can anyone supply her name?; Armand Arel, Manager South America; Lou Franca, Station Manager, Idlewild.
Seated from Left to Right: Tom Powers, District Sales Manager, Boston; Grey "Pete" Bossert, District Sales Manager, Philadelphia; Kay Eckles, Sales Representative, Washington; Don Kerkow, Assistant to Lloyd Moeller; Russ Silliman, Reservations Manager, Miami.
Standing from Left to Right: Joe McGuiness, Regional Manager West Coast; Mike Merlini, Tour Manager for Panagra; Berto Meneghini, top producing travel agent in Chile; Chile's Minister of the Interior (name unknown); Lady res staff in Miami - can anyone supply her name?; Armand Arel, Manager South America; Lou Franca, Station Manager, Idlewild.
Seated from Left to Right: Tom Powers, District Sales Manager, Boston; Grey "Pete" Bossert, District Sales Manager, Philadelphia; Kay Eckles, Sales Representative, Washington; Don Kerkow, Assistant to Lloyd Moeller; Russ Silliman, Reservations Manager, Miami.
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ELECTRA II BOEING 727 WITH OLD MARKINGS
NAL 727 and Goodyear Blimp - year and place unknown
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Wisty F/A Bud Dudley F/A? William
Mixon Maytag Swim Street
Mixon Maytag Swim Street
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DELIVERY OF FIRST BOEING 727 (N4610)
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HISTORICAL - From what I have been able to garner from various individuals, the scenario on transition from Props, to Prop Jets, to all Jets is as follows:
1. National became the first airline to operated jets domestically in 1958 by leasing two aircraft from Pan Am to operate MIA-NYC flights during the winter season before taking delivery of its own DC-8s in 1959.
2. In OCT of 1964 - and marking our 30th Anniversary, while continuing to operate Electra's, we retired the last of our piston-engine aircraft and, therefore, became the first all jet-powered domestic trunk airline by taking delivery on 23 October of four of the new sleek Boeing 727s.
3. From the 1965 Annual Report: Our present fleet consists of seven B727's, seventeen Lockheed Electra II's, and thirteen Douglas DC-8's; a total of thirty-seven modern, jet-powered equipment.
4. By the spring/summer/fall of 1968 the last Electra (apparently a favorite of the cockpit crews) was retired from the NAL fleet - and, therefore, we were flying all pure jets from that point on utilizing Boeing 727s and DC-8s. I have been provided various dates of retirement for the Electra's: April 21st, August, summer of 68, & end of '68!
1. National became the first airline to operated jets domestically in 1958 by leasing two aircraft from Pan Am to operate MIA-NYC flights during the winter season before taking delivery of its own DC-8s in 1959.
2. In OCT of 1964 - and marking our 30th Anniversary, while continuing to operate Electra's, we retired the last of our piston-engine aircraft and, therefore, became the first all jet-powered domestic trunk airline by taking delivery on 23 October of four of the new sleek Boeing 727s.
3. From the 1965 Annual Report: Our present fleet consists of seven B727's, seventeen Lockheed Electra II's, and thirteen Douglas DC-8's; a total of thirty-seven modern, jet-powered equipment.
4. By the spring/summer/fall of 1968 the last Electra (apparently a favorite of the cockpit crews) was retired from the NAL fleet - and, therefore, we were flying all pure jets from that point on utilizing Boeing 727s and DC-8s. I have been provided various dates of retirement for the Electra's: April 21st, August, summer of 68, & end of '68!
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DELIVERY OF FIRST BOEING 727 (N4610)
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....... JOHN ALTON RAY DUDLEY BUD GEN. A.C. ROBERT ED
CROSS OCHNER WOODY SWIM MAYTAG WEDEMEYER TRUEX DOLANSKY
ALL OFFICERS AND/OR MEMBERS OF OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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