Eastern Air Lines Digital Collection

The

The Ponce de Leon, an Eastern Air Lines Constellation passenger plane, is christened with a bottle of Cola-Cola in 1951 by Fred B. Moore and Paula Reid. The Constellation was the first aircraft purchased by Eastern's president Eddie Rickenbacker during the company's transition from military to passenger service after World War II.

Eastern Air Lines Digital Collection, made available by Special Collections and Archives at Georgia State University Library, includes correspondence, annual reports, photographs, television and radio advertisements, news clippings, press releases, and a variety of artifacts that document Eastern's history, spanning much of the twentieth century.

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