A Texas International Airlines DC-9-15 sits at the gate at DFW in this photo from October of 1980. The airline was merged into Continental Airlines in 1982.
In a small town 30 minutes outside of Canton, Ohio sits a vintage C-53. If one airline pilot can't raise the money to save it soon, it will meet the scrapper.
As a new presidential administration prepares to take over, questions loom regarding the future of how the FAA will control the nation's aviation infrastructure.