{"id":127631,"date":"2024-09-16T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/twa-boeing-747-fleet-history\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T06:00:12","slug":"the-story-of-twas-boeing-747-fleet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=127631","title":{"rendered":"The Story Of TWA&#8217;s Boeing 747 Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001,             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258643\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/trans-world-airlines\/\"  >Trans World Airlines<\/a><\/span> (TWA) was acquired by             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/american_airlines_icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>American Airlines<\/a><\/span> and the list of         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2022361\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/2023-review-major-stories-big-three-us-airlines\/\" >major legacy US airlines grew ever-shorter (now only four remain)<\/a><\/span>. Founded in 1930, TWA was one of the most recognizable early US airlines and one of the most famous carriers of the jet age. While its legacy (including that of the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"59013\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 747<\/span><\/span>) may not be as great as Pan Am, it was considered the nation&#8217;s second unofficial flag carrier. Here is a look at TWA&#8217;s historic fleet of Boeing 747s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWA operated Boeing 747s from 1969, with one catastrophically exploding and the rest being scrapped or sold off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,399,408,2742,13363],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-127631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aircraft","category-boeing-747","category-history","category-twa","category-twa-747s","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127632,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127631\/revisions\/127632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}