The Airchive - What's New!

	February 20, 2003 It's all new. The site goes Live. Coming Attractions include an international timetables and maps section and building out the Memorabilia collection. I will endeavor to update this as often as I can, but I do have a day job. Thanks for visiting.
	March 25, 2003 Added 3 pages. In the vintage section, the Pan Am Aware Store / Pan Am Flight Academy in Miami Florida and the Spirit Restaurant, a shrine to Eastern, National and Pan Am have been added. In the Planespotting section, we have added the Palm Spring Airport.
	April 15, 2003 its tax day but airchive has some cool new stuff to cheer you up! The memorabilia pages have been beefed up with vintage welcome aboard guides, ads, brochures, and anniversary booklets from airlines such as Delta, Braniff, United, American, Pan Am, TWA, National, and Western. These are some of my favorite pages with really rare material.
	April 23, 2003 New Planespotting and Vintage features o'plenty! Vist the Opa Locka, Florida Airport with a great photo gallery of scrapped DC-10's, DC-9's, and vintage props! Also, check out the World's First Airline "Benoist" page with a neat replica of that first airliner. Under Planespotting, New airport visits featuring Ft. Lauderdale and Tampa Florida have also been added with an ATA 757-300 and a cockpit visit on a Southwest 737 NG. Also, site has been fixed to display on Netscape and Safari.
	May 7, 2003 We have added ultra rare sales brochures and technical briefings from the aircraft manufacturers themselves. Peruse vintage memorabilia from Boeing, Douglas, Airbus, Lockheed, and Convair - An Airchive exclusive!
	May 12, 2003 Jim Albrecht, a friend of Airchive, has provided us with some vintage images from a TWA Ambassador Class brochure and Braniff II's in-flight magazine.
	May 16, 2003 New in the offing, vintage post-cards from Pan Am, Frontier, Continental, Northeast, Capitol, and TWA.
	May 19, 2003 New Planespotting pics from new destinations: Montgomery, Alabama and Pensacola Florida. We have also added new pics from Phoenix, LAX's Theme Building, and New Orleans including 737-300 cockpit and Southwest "Triple Crown" Logojet shots.
	May 22, 2003 Braniff's 1965 Annual Report during the "End of the Plain Plane" re-image campaign, complete with aircraft, terminal, and personell photos plus route maps.
	June 3, 2003 Take off to the Great White North with visits to Toronto City Airport (pictured here), Montreal Durval, and Toronto Pearson.
	July 12, 2003 So much is new in this biggest update yet! International timetables from Europe, Asia, Latin America, the UK, Canada, Asia, Australia, and the Middle East. Plus: Airbus A-380 factory brochures; Boeing Sonic Cruiser brochures along with those from the 777, 717, and 747; 1930's and 1940's timetables from American, Eastern, Delta, and TWA; rare memorabilia from Delta including the first jet highlights from the employee newsletter, the 767 launch brochure, and its flyable DC-3 Ship 41; Eastern's 757 launch brochure plus lots of new timetables and maps from Air Florida, Spirit, Continental, Frontier, Mackey, Skyways, PSA, Chalks, MGM, and many more!

	July 15, 2003 A rare visit to the the Delta Heritage Museum in Atlanta. Typically reserved for employees only, this museum is a work in progress. See the restored DC-3 "Ship 41", The company store in the L1011 prototype fuselage, vintage aircraft, and numerous artifacts.
	July 28 , 2003 New planespotting destinations takes Airchive to the Lone Star State: Houston's Intercontinental and Hobby Airports; and San Antonio. In other additions...contributor Chris Albrecht has posted a Hughes Airwest circa 1978 Business Class brochure. Finally, a new Continental route map, new Burbank terminal shots, and United 747-400 interiors round out the mix.

	July 29, 2003 Airchive and Pico Search have made your navigation much easier with our new search engine located at the bottom of every page.
	August 1, 2003 New in the Airchive! - Western Airlines 60th Anniversary Brochure and Planespotting at Boston's Logan International Airport.
	December 21, 2003 My apologies for the lag time between updates but I can assure you it's well worth it. In the last 3 months I moved across the country, began a new job, bought a house, and got married. Finally and just in time for the holidays, I am pleased to present the long awaited December Update. First, Airchive visits the Airports of Papette, Bora Bora, and Raitea in exotic French Polynesia plus in flight shots from their Airbus A-340-300; taken on my honeymoon no less! Also checkout an entirely new comprehensive LAX page, San Franciso Airport, the fascinating but little known SFO Airport Museum and the United Airlines collection , Baltimore/Washington International Airport's observation deck/museum, and a South of the Border visit to Puerto Vallarta. We have made a number corrections thanks to those who continue to offer their feedback.

	February 1, 2004 Superbowl Sunday ushers in an exciting update as Airchive.Com celebrates its First Anniversary this month. First up, see historic aircraft such as the Boeing Dash 80, the only surviving Boeing 307, A Junkers JU-2, and an Air France Concorde at the Smithsonian's new Udvar-Hazy Air Museum in Dulles, Virginia. In honor of the sunset of Concorde services, Airchive introduces a Concorde page complete with Air France's launch brochure, BAs final Concorde commemorative inflight magazine, and Braniff's Concorde literature. In addition, we also have the 1960s era DC-9 introductory brochure from Hawaiian Airlines, United Airline's 40th Anniversary edition of "Mainliner", plus extraordinarily rare brochures from the helicopter airline New York Airways.

	March 14, 2004 Airchive has been spanning Europe just in time for our Springtime Update. Visit the astonishing new terminals at Paris Charles De Gaulle (CDG-2)and the home of Airbus: Tolouse Blagnac, plus see interior shots of an Air France 777. Our Heathrow and Gatwick pages boast new images of Terminal 4 and the South Terminal respectively, full interior shots from a British Airways 747-400, and United's first 777 in the new livery.

	April 25, 2004 I am overseeing production of a 3-part series for TLC on the building of the Airbus A-380. During production, I was privileged to visit Airbus Industrie Headquarters in Tolouse, France. Included in the visit was the customer delivery center, A330/A340 assembly hall, new A380 assembly hall, A380 mockup, A320 components center, and the A300-600ST Beluga Operations, and now you're invited too. Airchive heads south for a little R & R in San Juan, Puerto Rico home of one of America's last great observation deck - Aeroparque and many operational vintage props, then heads back north again via St. Louis Lambert Airport as AA winds down it's hub there, and Oklahoma City's impressively renovated Will Rogers International Airport. Plus, new vintage timetables from European airlines courtesy of a friend of Airchive.

	May 28, 2004 Memorial Day Weekend brings an exciting update throughout the entire site. Aeroflot fans will flock to our new robust Aeroflot memorabilla page with rare aircraft and historic brochures galore! I oversaw a shoot for my day job at TLC with John Travolta for a documentary on the Airbus A-380, those pics are here. Visit Orlando's International Airport with it's unique layout and traffic. Peruse the very first launch brochure for the Airbus A-300 and Northwest's 50th Anniversary booklet. Other additions include BA's Concorde launch brochure, numerous new UK, Irish, European, Middle East, Canadian, Caribbean, Asian, Delta, and Southwest timetables; new planespotting at Dallas Love Field including the rare Dallas Mavericks team plane, DFW Airport, and Washington National. Finally, unfortunately Airbus requested we pull the images from the Tolouse factory for now due to security reasons.


	August 27, 2004 This is one of our most comprehensive updates, yet! In fact, it has taken the summer to gather new materials, pictures, and of course to scan them and present them to you! The Vintage section boasts a postcard portolio from the 1960s of LAX, a 50th Anniversary brochure of Miami International Airport, and a visit to Save A Connie's Airline History Museum (home of a Constellation L1049 Super G, Martin 404, and DC-3). The Memorabilia section features new materials from John Travolta, Southern, Northwest, the 75th Anniversary of Delta, Cubana's 50th Anniversary, Trans Texas, British Airways, USAirways, Overseas National Airlines, a Boeing 727 Quick Reference guide of operations, Aspen, and more. We have new timetables from Independence Air, Mid Pacific of Hawaii, SunWorld, New York Helicopter, Air Tahiti, Tahiti Nui, Tejas, EasyJet, Mexicana, Aeromexico, Northwest, Virgin, and ANA of Japan. Planespotting visits Kansas City, Tulsa, Newark, Philadelphia, and Charleston plus many update shots of Washington Reagan National, Dulles, Baltimore, Chicago O'Hare, Miami, and LAX. Also, check out the new Independence Air gate areas, aircraft, exterior, and interior shots.




	November 22, 2004 Airchive has been doing some traveling and we new pages from the semi-exotic: Honolulu to the exotic: Guam and Palau in the Micronesian Islands. Another exciting addition is a new page dedicated simply to Airliner Interiors. Many new shots from Continental to Virgin, plus many of the cabin and flightdeck shots from around the site have been consolidated on this new page. Finally, our frequent visits to London and New York produce new Heathrow (including the famed Virgin Clubhouse) and JFK images.

	February 3, 2005 Airchive has traveled from the tropics to the tundra and many places in between in the New Year: First, we travel south to Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados (home to one of the remaining Concordes. Then we head to the great white northern tundra (and home of Northwest Airlines), Minneapolis/St. Paul. Also, checkout new cabin shots from the 757-300, a vintage Southwest Airlines 737 "80s lounge interior", images of Miami's new mile long "Super Concourse", plus new terminal and aircraft shots from LAX and Ft. Lauderdale. Finally, Strat lovers will want to checkout the Pan Am memorabilia pages for a Stratosphere cutaway. Happy New Year/Almost 2 year Anniversary from Airchive.com!


	February 11, 2005 I just returned from the LAX Airline Collectibles show and have burning the midnight oil scanning, Photoshopping, and writing. We have four new pages: Chicago O'Hare Vintage Postcards, Asia Memorabilia, Australia Memorabilia including a Qantas 747 launch brochure, and a UK memorabila page. What else is new? Plenty! A 1999 Concorde in-flight guide, menu, and wine list; 1970s and 80s vintage Boeing 727, 737, 747, and 757 technical briefings; MD-90, DC-9 and DC-10 brochures; Rare 1930s and 1940s timetables from Continental, Delta, Eastern, National, Pan Am, and United; A tour of the Airbus Hamburg facility; Brochures from Continental, Royal Jordanian, Emirates, ATA, and China Air; timetables from Air Do, Air Jamaica, Air Inter, Air India, Alaska (1970), American (1982 and 84), ANA, Bahamas Airways (1963), Frontier, Gulf Air, JAL (1968),Korean, Northwest (1961), PSA (1970), Qantas (1962), Singapore, Trans Central, and United (1959); and finally route maps from Northwest, KLM, Philippines, and South African.



	June 4, 2005... It's Memorial Day Weekend, 2005 and there is nothing but blue skies ahead on Airchive.com. Since the last update, we have moved back to Miami Beach and been very busy so this update is long overdue. We visit Mojave for the first time post-9/11 where business continues in high gear. New, first time ever airports include San Diego, Bakersfield, and Orange County, California plus return visits to Miami, Atlanta, New York JFK, and Orlando. See Airchive's newly purchase vintage 8 foot long Concorde cutaway, new 1960s era 747 cutaway plus Phil Montejano's fabulous DC-8 cutaway at the Models page. Check-out RJ, Lear Jet, and ATR simulators at Flight Safety in Atlanta. Looking for cool aviation furniture, seats, and art, then Interflight Studio in Miami is a must visit. Also, new collectible timetables from American, Aeroflot, Air Canada, Air Cal, Alaska, Braniff, BA, British Caledonian, Capital, Eastern, Empire, Freedom, Hawaiian, Independence, Jet Blue, Korean, North Central, Nordair, Northwest, Pan Am, Piedmont, South African, Swissair, TWA, Wardair, and Western.





	December 15, 2005 Airchive rolls out the long overdue and requested December Update. Airchive takes off for new destinations: Freeport, Bahamas; Owen Roberts Airport in Grand Cayman; Jacksonville, Florida; plus many new pics from JFK, Laguardia, LAX, Barbados, and Ft. Lauderdale. Step into flight decks and cabins from Song (great IFE shots), Jet Blue (IFE shots), and Cayman Airways (including a legacy 737-200). Our fantastic contributors are out in full force! Chris Cummings contributes scores of new timetables from America, Continental, Delta, Air Canada, TWA, United, Aeroflot, Air France, KLM, Turkish, Malev, Swiss, Air Berlin, JAT, CSA, Korean, China, and many more. Aleksandar Obradovic has great safety cards from JAT and timetables from Iraqi and JAT. Scott Grant brings you new timetables from Aloha, United, Eastern, Wien, Mexicana, AeroMexico, Varig, Air Inter, Icelandair, Wien, Swiss, Olympic and more. Mark Trent shares new images and brochures from Douglas, United, Eastern, and Braniff. Obviously, contributions are very welcome! Coming in early 2006: Airchive travels to Japan and the Phillippines plus see the fantastic launch brochure for the fabled Boeing 727. Happy Holidays!








	May 13, 2006 Long time, no see! I haven't forgotten about the site just been extremely busy, and of course flying alot! Airchive travels to "747 City" Tokyo Narita for a very comprehensive tour of the airport and its "Museum Shop". We also fill in some holes in our domestic U.S. coverage with a very deep photographic tour of Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport and the new 2005 International Terminal at DFW. Airchive mourns the loss of fun, upstart Independence Air with photos taken at Dulles less than a week after the January 7, 2006 shutdown. Elsewhere, see new images from resurgent New Orleans Louis Armstrong, new photos of Miami's stunning new and soon-to-come terminals, and a Chalk's Amphibian Flying Boat damaged mercilessly by Hurricane Katrina . You'll also enjoy new hard to get cabin shots of American IFEs, 777s, MD80s, and 737s. We have numerous trips to Spain and Airline conventions around the U.S so hopefully these updates will be a little more frequent. Happy Summer!



	September 7, 2006 Summer? What Summer?! We've been so busy that the Airchive has become way overdue for an update. I can assure you the site is alive and well. In my own backyard, we have traveled to Palm Beach International Airport and Southwest Florida International located on Florida's west coast between Ft Myers and Naples. We also made an exciting excursion over to Airbus' fascinating Miami Training Center to check out a few sims, thanks to Bill Rivenbark of Airbus. We welcome some exciting new contributors and new locales to destinations very far and very abroad. Friends of mine, "the 2 Cary's Sach's" a husband and wife act snapped some pics of Johannesburg International on a recent safari South Africa. Daniel Kruschinski, takes us on an excellent, comprehensive tour of Dusseldorf Airport in the midst of the World Cup no less. Plus, the always excellent photographer Chris Cummings has some great action shots from LAX. Also, thanks to Daniel Jackofsky for the cutaway pic of the Megatop Singapore 747-400 model.



	December 16, 2006 Happy Holidays from Airchive.Com. Our gift to you is our annual holiday update. We tour the world's best commercial avation museum, American Airlines' C.R. Smith Museum and the new Frontiers of Flight Museum in Dallas. We also visit for the first time, Tallahassee Florida's Regional Airport and Detroit Metropolitan. For the vintage afficionados, we have new classic pics of South Florida Aviation. Planespotting has augmented with new pics from Miami International, San Diego, Chicago O'Hare, LAX, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Tulsa, Ft. Lauderdale, and new airline cabin pics of NWA's Vintage DC-9s, ERJs, CRJs, and Saab 340s. Airchive is also pleased to introduce you to a wondeful aviation store, ORD, at where else? Chicago O'Hare.




	February 20, 2007 Today is Airchive's 4th birthday. We've been doing a ton of traveling and have been getting many wonderful images from our contributors. So what's new? The list is massive: The long awaited trip to Saint Marteen, Grand Turk, and the Henry Ford Museum; New and deep photo explorations of Detroit, Philadelphia, and Ft. Lauderdale. From 2001, I finally found my pics from Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, and Rio. We take you to America's premiere model manufacturer, Atlantic Models in Miami.Greater Miami Aviation Association invited us to a tour of the new, world class Miami South Terminal under construcion. Our contributors Thorston Meyer, Chris Wade, Jose Lauzardo, and Paul Wickstrom generously bring you great pics from Minneapolis/St. Paul, Hamburg, Phoenix, San Jose, Oakland, San Diego, and Chicago O'Hare. For the first time, I flew Spirit Airlines and snapped excellent cabin photos of their sharp aircraft. Finally, model collector extraordinaire Phil Montejano contributed pics of his new KLM 747 cutaway and a truly awesome Boeing 377 Stratocruiser cutaway.




	March 9, 2007 Mini-Update I'm happy to report, my son is due and that will be the ultimate ride! So, This mini-updated will be the last one likely until June, though I can assure you it will be well worth the wait as we tons o' memorabilia ready to be uploaded! So, I am squeezing this "mini-update" in before the Big Day on April 6th. Enjoy pics from our trip to "Sin City International", Las Vegas McCarran International and it's Howard Cannon Aviation Museum; A virtual tour of Little Rock's National Airport, plus new aerial pics from Miami and LAX. Enjoy the Spring, we'll see you in the Summer!

	May 25, 2007 It's been a busy time for me, but not Airchive related. We welcomed our first child into the world on April 6th. Calder Jacob Sloan, flew into the world on April 6th. He was named after our famous artist, Alex Calder, who designed the original Braniff Colors Bicentennial Jet. He is healthy and beautiful and will be taking to the skies soon. Work has also been hectic but productive as my company has taken on some significant new clients. Work and Family must come first but we'll continue to make updates. So for obvious reasons, this isn't one of our most robust efforts but rather than wait for everything to be scanned and posted, I thought I'd post an interim update of some good stuff. We're saving some real gems for our next update later in the Summer. For May, we've added the most new airplane paper in a year and a half. First, the brochures from the Boeing Factory Tour, the 1991 737-500, and the 1993 full line. Next, vintage timetables and ads from TWA, Allegheny, Taca, Mackey, Northeast, Midway, Northeastern, Altair, and United plus new extensive American timetables and ads from the 1960s up through the last printed schedule in 2003.



\	December 21, 2007 - Airchive Lives! I know what you're thinking. Chris abandoned Airchive. Not true. Not by a longshot. I have been very busy at home with my new son and at my company, 2C Media, producing 3 new shows for the Travel Channel, launching new shows for ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX and, something else very cool. I made a special trip half-way around the world to be a part of history. On October 25, 2006, I was ecstatic to be aboard the first commercial flight of the Airbus A380. I documented the story for "Airways Magazine" and there's bonus content and photos for you. It's a can't miss. While on the trip, I visited for the first time Singapore Changi, the world's best airport; Kona, Hawaii; Salt Lake City, and returned to Honolulu, Montego Bay, Jamaica; Tokyo Narita and Sydney, Australia for new pics. Additionally, we have new photos from New York JFK of the first flight into American's T8, our hometown airport of Miami, Los Angeles, Cancun, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Atlanta, and many new airliner interior photos including extensive shots from the A380, A340-500, other Singapore airliners, and Aloha's 737-200s. Our fabulous contributors such as Paul Wickstrom, Terry Powell, Spencer Condon, Scott Grant, and Jose Lauzaurado have contributed new images and totally new pages for Chicago O'Hare, Seattle, Portland, Rochester, NY; Rochester, MN; Oakland, San Franciso, Portland, Denver, Pittsburgh, Bakersfield, and San Diego. Plus Doug Scroggins has pics of his Convair 880 Ship 22 at its final resting place. It has been 6 months since our last update but well worth the wait. And the big news is, a massive redesign of Airchive is underway, the first since our founding nearly five years ago. This will be a very user friendly, and graphically upgraded version of the site you see now with expanded search, community, and blogging features. Airchive is going Web 2.0 very soon. We have alot of additional content waiting for the next update but are currently deciding on whether this will coincide or pre-date the launch of the new site. We are happy you continue to make us one of the world's top airline enthusiasts sites and look forward to bringing you the new Airchive.com very soon by late 2nd quarter 2008.