1958 Ford Ranchero Aircraft Maintenance Car Yellow "Braniff International Airways" Limited Edition to 125 pieces Worldwide 1/43 Model Car by Goldvarg
Brand new 1/43 scale car model of 1958 Ford Ranchero Aircraft Maintenance Car Yellow "Braniff International Airways" Limited Edition to 125 pieces Worldwide model car by Goldvarg Collection. Brand new box. Real rubber tires. Officially licensed product. Highly detailed interior exterior. Comes in plastic display showcase. Dimensions approximately L-5 W-2 H-1.25 inches. This model is made of resin and does not have any openings. Braniff Airways Inc. doing business as Braniff International Airways from 1948 until 1965 and then Braniff International from 1965 until 1983 was an American airline that operated from 1928 until 1982. Its routes were primarily in the midwestern and southwestern United States Mexico Central America and South America. In the late 1970s it expanded to Asia and Europe. In October 1951 Braniff flew to 29 airports in the US from Chicago and Denver south to Brownsville Texas to Central America Cuba and South America. After months of negotiations Braniff acquired Mid-Continent Airlines a small Kansas City-based trunk line on August 16 1952. The merger added numerous cities including Minneapolis/St. Paul Sioux City and Sioux Falls in the North; Des Moines Omaha and St. Louis in the Midwest; and Tulsa Shreveport and New Orleans in the South. The acquisition of the Minneapolis/St. Paul to Kansas City route (with stops in Des Moines and Rochester Minnesota) was of particular interest to Braniff as Mid-Continent had been awarded this route instead of Braniff in 1939. After the merger Braniff operated 75 aircraft and over 4000 employees including 400 pilots. In 1955 Braniff was the tenth largest US airline by passenger-miles and the ninth largest by domestic passenger-miles. Beard led Braniff into the jet age. The first jets were four Boeing 707-227s. In 1965 Braniffs fleet was about half jet comprising 707s 720s and British Aircraft Corporatio