Friday, September 13, 2024

Geneva International Airport 10th anniversary poster, Switzerland 1958


It depicts a four-engine jet, probably a Boeing 707. In fact, the first four-engine jet would not touch down in Switzerland until two years later, when a TWA Boeing B-707-131 landed in Geneva on 7 January 1960.As for Swissair, it took delivery of its first four-engined aircraft, a DC-8-32, on 20 April 1960 in Zurich. It became famous under the registration HB-IDA ‘Matterhorn’ and made its first passenger flight from Zurich to Geneva and New York on 30 May of the same year.

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