The Airchive - Frontiers of Flight Museum

	Frontiers of Flight Museum Founded as a small collection located in the terminal at Dallas Love Field, Frontiers of Flight has grown to an impressive museum with its own new massive freestanding building. The aviation collection runs the gamut from millitary to general to commercial to space. It is located on Lemmon Avenue at Dallas Love. Phone is 214-350-3600 & Gift Shop 214-350-1651. It is open 7 days per week. An F-85 Sabre stands watch in the parking lot.




	Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-200 Ship 102 Southwest finally retired all of its 737-200 Classics by January 2005. One of these, Ship 102 "The Herbert Kelleher (named for the airline's legendary CEO), was partially preserved here. Southwest Airlines his headquartered within a couple of miles of the Dallas Love Museum. This example is adorned in Southwest's 2001 vintage and current Canyon Blue livery.




	Webmaster on the Flight Deck of Ship 102
	Southwest Airlines Dallas Love Field Sign SWA is headquartered at Dallas Love
	Southwest Airlines Display Board These old "science fair" displays are being replaced. It is however, informative. Click to read full size.
	Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-300 Model SWA is the world's largest operator of the 737s. At one time, it operated aircraft from all 3 generations of this Baby Boeing, the world's best selling commercial jetliner.

	Boeing 737-100 in Boeing House Colors This 1960s vintage factory model shows the world's most popular commercial jetliner. The program got off to a slow start with Lufthansa being the launch customer, followed by United. It didn't really take off until the 200 Series was introduced in the early 1970s.

	Boeing 737 and Delta MD-11 Model
	American Airlines Boeing 747-100 Cutaway Model Frontiers of Flight has very little AA memorabilia apart from this awesome 1970s era cutaway and the Electra below. For more AA memorabilia jump to the C.R. Smith Museum. AA operated the 747 from 1970-77, but it was always too large for the AA network and was replaced by the Douglas DC-10.


	American Airlines Lockheed L-188 Electra Frontiers of Flight has very little AA memorabilia apart from the awesome 1970s era 747 cutaway and this Electra. For more AA memorabilia jump to the C.R. Smith Museum. American was a major operator of the Electra from 1959 until the mid 1960s. The Electra got off to a horrible start with 3 crashes early in its life. Following modifications, the aircraft went on to become a beloved solid workhorse, flying until well into the late 1990s.

	Braniff International Airlines Display 25 years after its 1982 demise, the original Braniff continues to be a worldwide icon (particularly, oddly in Japan). This display celebrates the innovative, stylish Dallas based carrier that changed the airline industry forever. It is finished appropriately in the "Big Orange" color of Braniff's 747 fleet. The airline's maintenance base was headquartered at Dallas Love. Jump to Braniff Memorabilia and Braniff Timetables pages.
	Braniff International Boeing 747 Model From 1979-80, BN operated the 747SP on long/thin routes to Europe, South America, and Asia. They were one of the most glaring examples of the insane over-expansion which conspired with a severe recession that killed the world's most beautiful airline. Jump to Braniff Memorabilia and Braniff Timetables pages.
	Braniff International Concorde Model From 1979-80, BN flew Concorde interchanges (code shares) with British Airways and Air France to Europe from DFW via Washington D.C. This was a pure marketing and PR gimmick as the planes flew subsonically between IAD and DFW and supersonically over the Atlantic. None of the aircraft were actually ever painted in BN colors. Jump to Braniff Memorabilia and Braniff Timetables pages.
	Braniff International Calder Model To celebrate the Nation's 1976 Bicentennial, Braniff commissioned famed artist Alexander Calder to paint a Boeing 727-200 in a scheme called "Flying Colors" in 1975. Beyond its obvious beauty, this aircraft is unique for being not only one of the very first special schemed planes but also because the Braniff name was completely non existant on the exterior. Calder actually painted a few models such as this one. From there, decals were made for the actual application. However, he did paint the engine nacelles by hand. Jump to Braniff Memorabilia and Braniff Timetables pages.
	Braniff International Flight Attendant and Crew Uniforms Braniff's 1960s Pucci and 1970s uniforms are seen here. The one on the far right was the famed unifrom from the "Air Strip" campagin. Recently a collection of original BN uniforms sold for over $100,000 at auction. Jump to Braniff Memorabilia and Braniff Timetables pages.
	Delta Airlines McDonnel Douglas MD-11 Model Delta was the last major U.S. airline to operate the MD-11 in front line service, finally pulling them down in 2003. It was mainly used for European and Asian services. It was replaced by the Boeing 777-200 ER beginning in 1999.

	Boeing 737-200 Executive Gulf Petroleum Model
	Model Display
	Braniff International Model Display
	Northwest Orient Boeing 747-100 Model NWA was the last U.S. airline to operate the 747 Classic in front line service. When they were finally retired by 2002, 3 of their fleet had over 100,000 hours on the airframe.
	Pan Am Airbus A-310 Pan Am was the second major operator of Airbus in the U.S., following Eastern. The A-310 was a shortened but advanced version of the A-300 B4. It was Airbus' first aircraft with fly-by-wire and a partially glass cockpit. PA flew them from the mid 1980s until its 1991 demise. For a short time, the fleet went to Delta
	Master of Flying Boats Pilot Edwin Musik This is the famous pilot of the China Clipper. At one time, Musik was one of the most famous faces America, his face having appeared on Time Magazine after being the first U.S. pilot to fly commercial services across the Pacific. He did in a flying boat crash in 1937.
	Economy Class Seating Block
	Saudi Royal Boeing 747-400 Model
	KLM Douglas DC-8-61 Model In the late 1960s until the advent of the 747, this was the biggest airliner in the world.
	TWA Lockheed L-1049 Constellation Model The Connie is, in my view, history's most beautiful aircraft. It is most appropriately seen in launch customer TWA's scheme.
	Trans Texas Douglas DC-9 Series 10 TTA, affectionally known as Tree Top Airways, was renamed Texas International in 1973 a few years after it entered the jet age in 1967. Texas International formed the basis for Frank Lorenzo's Texas Air Corporation which took over Continental, Eastern, and People Express.
	Handbuilt TACA Intenational Douglas DC-3 Model This is a very large scale, very detailed model built by an ex-Taca pilot. The image below on the right reveals the very detailed interior.

	Love Field Promotional Material (1958) and Terminal Model (1956)
	Apollo 7 Capsule Command Module Apollo 7 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program to be launched. It was an eleven-day earth-orbital mission, the first manned launch of the Saturn IB launch vehicle, and the first three-man American space mission.

	Corsair Missiles Cluster
	F-16
	Corsair A-7



	Bell TH-1L Huey
	North American F-85 Sabre
	P & W J-58 Engine from SR-71

	SR-71 Training Simulator

	DeHavilland Tiger Moth

	Dallas Love Runway Thershold seen from Museum

	Jump to Dallas Love/Old Frontiers of Flight Museum