• Transition Aircraft: The Turboprops
• The First Generation of Jet Airliners
• Coast to Coast by Jet
• Air Travel in a Changing America
• Social Change in the Airline Industry
• The Era of Wide-Body Airliners
• Boeing 747 - 151
• Deregulation: A Watershed Event
• New and Expanding Airlines
• Air Express
• From Stewardess to Flight Attendant
• Survival of the Fittest
  • The Death of Eastern Airlines
• Aviation Technology
  • NASA and The Jet Age
  • Computer Technology
  • The Computer Revolution in the Cockpit
• Air Traffic Control Today
• Air Travel and Safety
• Airline Security
• The Flying Experience Today

Jimmy Carter

President Jimmy Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act into law on October 24, 1978, the first time in U.S. history that an industry was deregulated.

Image number 2000-6112
Credit: National Air and Space Museum Archives

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