Commercial Airports Vintage Postcard Collection

Postcards are an important medium in telling stories of the past. They are historical masterpieces, showing life at points in time.

Commercial aviation has been a popular subject of picture postcards for decades, showing us how airlines, airports, airliners and passengers looked at differing points in time. While photographs depict more exact realism, postcards bring back images many forgotten aspects of the aviation industry.

We explore on this page airports from around the country as they existed in the 1940s and 1950s, before the age of mega-airports.

Also included are postcards of airlines that still exist, such as American, Delta and United. And we have images of airliners from airlines that have been engulfed in takeovers, and victims of bankruptcy anc changing times: Braniff International, Northeast Airlines, Pan American World Airways, Trans Texas Airways, and Ozark Airlines, among others. View Vintage Postcards of Airlines

Enjoy our airplanes of the past ... presented in historic, vintage picture postcards!