The 1950s Constellation, a plane that wrote history! Airplane aluminium. Authentic travel agent airline advertising object. After World War II, the Constellation came into its own as a fast-civilian airliner. Aircraft already in production for the USAAF as C-69 transports were finished as civilian airliners, with TWA receiving the first on 1 October 1945. TWA's first transatlantic proving flight departed Washington, DC, on December 3, 1945, arriving in Paris on December 4 via Gander and Shannon.
