Eastern Air Lines - Fleet

Fleet

Eastern Air Lines flew many different types of aircraft throughout its history:

• Pitcairn Mailwing with which began operations as Eastern Air Transport Inc.
• Ford Tri-Motor from 1930–1932
• Fokker F.VII
• Curtiss Condor from 1930–1934
• Lockheed Electra from 1935–1936
• Douglas DC-2
• Douglas DC-3 from 1936–1953
• Curtiss Commando
• Martin 4-0-4 of which Eastern had the largest fleet with 60 of the type in operation.
• Douglas DC-4
• Convair 440 Metropolitan
• L-1049 Super Constellation from 1951–1968
• Douglas DC-7B from 1953–1966
• Lockheed L-188 Electra beginning 1959
• DC-8-21 beginning in 1960
• DC-8-61/63 stretched and long-range versions beginning in 1967 and 1968, respectively
• Boeing 720
• Boeing 727-100 beginning in 1 February 1964 with Eastern as the launch customer.
• Boeing 727-200 Advanced beginning in 1968
• DC-9-14 beginning in February 1965
• DC-9-31
• DC-9-50
• Boeing 747-100 leased from Pan Am before the L-1011s arrived
• Boeing 747-200
• Lockheed L-1011-1 beginning in 1972 with Eastern as co-launch customer (along with TWA)
• Airbus A300B4 with Eastern as the first U.S. airline operator
• Boeing 757-200 beginning in 1983 with Eastern as co-launch customer (along with British Airways)
• Douglas DC-10 (long-range DC-10-30's leased from Alitalia to operate Miami-London services in the late 1980s)
• Lockheed JetStar for corporate use.