1957 – 1967
The big reach…
1957 was the year of the Lockheed Super H Constellation and the year Tigers helped revolutionize the marketing map of the United States with the first non-stop, transcontinental airfreight schedules. Airlifting 43,000 pounds of freight at 300 miles per hour, the Super H Constellation had the first true coast-to-coast nonstop range of 2,500 miles. Tigers’ $28 million order for Super Constellations was the largest single order ever placed by an airline for cargo aircraft. The Tigers now became the nation’s single largest carrier of airfreight, both in fleet equipment and in ton miles produced. The era of “The Airfreight Specialist,” as the airline came to be know, had truly begun.