Famgus Aviation Postcards: Boeing 307

Last updated December 12 2021

Boeing 307 - The Stratoliner

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Below, postcards from my collection are shown per airline.

Please note that I have no ambition to collect Stratoliner postcards as such, but since I have quite a substantial number of postcards I find it interesting to group them together per aircraft type from a presentation perspective.

Number of postcards: x

Pan American World Airways (x) | TWA (y)

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Boeing B-307 Stratoliner

C/N 1994
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1938-1939
NX19901
Boeing Company
No name known

Crashed during a test flight.
Was intended for Pan Am.

C/N 1995
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1939-19xx
NC19902
Pan American Airways
Clipper Rainbow

19xx-yy:
ZS-BVU (Haiti???)
19xx-yy:
HC-SJC-003 (Aerovias Ecuatoriana)
19xx-yy:
F-BHHR (Aigle Azur-Indochine)
19xx-yy:
XW-TAC (Royal Air Lao)

C/N 1996
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1939-1942
NC19905
TWA
Comanche

1942-44:
42-88624 (US Army AF)
1944-xx:
NC19905 (TWA)
1951-55:
F-BELV (Aigle Azur)
1955-56:
F-BELV (Aigle Azur Indochine)
1956-60:
F-BELV (Aigle Azur Extreme-Orient)
1960-64:
XW-TAA (Royal Air Lao)
1964-65:
XW-TAA (ICC)

C/N 1997
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1939-19xx
NC19904
Howard Hughes
The Flying Penthouse

1949-yy:
Glen McCarthy
Converted into a houseboat.

C/N 1998
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1939-1942
NX1940 (NC19906)
TWA
Cherokee

1942-44:
42-88623 (US Army AF)
1944-xx:
N1940 (TWA)
19xx-52:
F-BELU (Aigle Azur)
1952-59:
xxx (Royal Air Lao)
1959-1965:
xxx (Airnautic)
1965-1974:
xxx (CITCA)
1974-75:
XW-TFP (Cambodia Air Comm.)

C/N 1999
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1940-1942
NC19907
TWA
Zuni

1942-44:
42-88625 (US Army AF)
1944-xx:
NC19907 (TWA)
19xx-51:
SE-CDN (xxx)
1951-60:
F-BELX (Aigle Azur)
XW-TAB (Royal Air Lao) - leased
1960-74:
F-BELX (CITCA)
1974-74:
XW-TFR (Cambodia Air Comm.)

Fate: Crashed shortly after take-off. Forced landing in a rice field.
[Aviation Safety Network]

C/N 2000
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1940-1942
NC19908
TWA
Apache

1942-44:
42-88626 (US Army AF)
1944-xx:
NC19908 (TWA)
1951-52:
F-BELY (Aigle Azur)
1952-59:
XW-xxx (Royal Air Lao)
1959-70:
XW-xxx (Airnauric)
1970-71:
XW-PGR (Royal Air Lao)
1974-xx:
XW-xxx (Cambodia Air Comm.)

C/N 2001
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1940-1942
NC19909
TWA
Navajo

1942-44:
42-88627 (US Army AF)
1944-xx:
NC19907 (TWA)
1951-xx:
F-BELZ (Aigle Azur)
19xx-59:
xxx (Royal Air Lao)
1959-62:
F-BELZ (Airnauric)

Fate: Crashed into a mountain in Corsica, France.
[Aviation Safety Network]

C/N 2002
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1940-19xx
NC19910
Pan American Airways
Clipper Comet

19xx-58: N75385 (Quaker City Airways)

Fate: Damaged beyond repair after a forced landing during as test flight 1958.
[Aviation Safety Network]

C/N 2003
Boeing 307 Stratoliner
1940-19xx
NC19903
Pan American Airways
Clipper Flying Cloud

19xx-yy: N19903 (xxx)
19xx-yy: N9703R (xxx)
19xx-yy: ZS-BWV (Haiti AF, became presidential aircraft for "Papa Doc" Duvalier)

Restored and displayed at the National Air and Space Museum in Sterling, VA, USA.

The Stratoliner Operators

Pan American World Airways

Pan Am were the original operator for 3 different Stratoliner aircrafts between 1940 and 1947.
The registrations used were NC19902, NC19903 and NC19910.

They were primarily used for their Central- and South-Amrican services.

TWA

TWA operated 5 different Stratoliner aircrafts between 1940 and 1951.
In February 1942 the five aircrafts were acquired by US Army Air Force for use during the WWII. They were converted to model C-75. The military returned the aircrafts in August 1944. TWA then sent them to Boeing for rebuilding becoming model 307B-1. Among other things the passenger capacity was increased from 33 to 38. TWA flew their Stratoliners to 1951 when they were sold all five to the French operator Aigle Azur.

Registrations used were NC19905, NC19906 (aka NX1940), NC19907, NC19908 and NC19909.

Besides the postcards above I have the following in my collection.

N19906 ( here NX1940)
TWA
Boeing 307 Stratoliner

In flight

W. J. Gray, Los Angeles, USA

N19906 (here NX1940)
TWA
Boeing 307 Stratoliner

In flight

W. J. Gray, Los Angeles, USA

N19906 (here NX1940)
TWA
Boeing 307 Stratoliner

In flight

W. J. Gray, Los Angeles, USA

N19909
TWA
Boeing 307 Stratoliner

In flight

Postcard published by:
Foto Seal Co., New York, USA

Aigle Azur

Aigle Azur bought all five Stratoliners of TWA in 1951.

Registrations used were F-BELU (ex NC19906), F-BELV (ex NC19905), F-BELX (ex NC19907), F-BELY (ex NC19908) and F-BELZ (ex NC19909). These aircrafts were first used on scheduled flights from France to North Africa. Three of the aircrafts (F-BELU, F-BELV and F-BELX) were later transferred to Aigle Azur's Vietnamese subsidiary (Aigle Azur Extrême-Orient) and were used in South East Asia.

In addition, one Stratoliner who earlier flew for Pan Am was aquired from Aerovias Ecuatoriana
and became F-BHHR.