Explore: Propliners

produced in small numbers. De Havilland Canada Dash 8 Fokker 50 Tupolev Tu-114 Descriptions and photos of U.S-built propliners. Propliner chronology v t e

Aircraft in service with Great Lakes during the 1970s, being Convair 440 propliners and Convair 580 turboprops, were older and subject to vibrations during

were able to fly higher, faster, and farther than older piston‑powered propliners, making transcontinental and intercontinental travel considerably faster

City, Miami and Port-au-Prince operated with Douglas DC-6 four engine propliners (which the airline called the "Super-6 Clipper"). In 1960, locally based

the U.S. in 1962 flying as Futura Airlines with Lockheed Constellation propliners serving Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield and Lake

Gradidge 2006, pp. 632–633. Gradidge, 2006, p. 634. Pearcy, Arthur Douglas Propliners DC-1 – DC-7, Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1995, ISBN 1-8531026-1-X

designations (pre-1962) Roach & Eastwood, 2007, p. 273. ""No Goose - No Gander." Propliners' Crowning Achievement"". panam.org. Archived from the original on May

Intercontinentaux (TAI), which was serving Bora Bora in 1960 with Douglas DC-7C propliners. Later the same year, following the opening of the new airport, TAI began

Slope and later to Ecuador. Alaska also owned Lockheed Constellation propliners including two Lockheed L-1649A Starliners from 1962 to 1968, and three

Silver Plume. Operated by Golden Eagle Aviation Inc., the twin-engine propliner carried 37 passengers and a crew of three, of whom 29 were killed at the