A busy apron scene at La Guardia

This aircraft was flown as a "McDonnell Douglas 188" STOL demonstrator in the northeast corridor in the US during 1968. It was not registered in the USA, but was operated by the French Air Force on behalf of McDonnell Douglas in full Eastern Air Lines livery, under its military serial 2 (callsign F-ZJRL, formerly coded "L"). The following year it was painted in American Airlines livery and flown on other routes. The aircraft returned to France in June 1969 and was then operated by the French AF coded 62-NB until withdrawn from use in 1974. McDonnell Douglas had obtained a license to build this aircraft in the US as the MD-188, but since the airlines showed little interest the project was dropped and no MD-188s were built.

Photographer Peter Frei

Del 07 November 1990

photographer not known, aircraft was damaged beyond repair following an emergency landing at LGA on Feb 24, 1967

The first civilian Catalina, NC777 Guba (I), seen at North Beach, NY after flying non-stop from San Diego in 17 hours. The flying boat had been purchased by the American Museum of Natural History for use by naturalist Richard Archbold, but was sold to the USSR in August 1937 to participate in the search for URSS-N209 of Sigizmund Levanevsky. Archbold got another NC777 Guba, c/n C-3. Photo from: Life

Name Anzac Clipper not worn. This was the last surviving Boeing 314, scrapped in 1951. Photo by: Bernard Hoffman / Life

Moored at La Guardia's Marine Air Terminal. Clare made several flights to New York during the Battle of Britain. Photo by: Dmitri Kessel / Life

Delivered to New York Air as N14308 in 1985. Merged into Continental in 1987. Withdrawn from use at Walnut Ridge, AR in 2010 and scrapped.