DALLAS — Today, in 1964, the three-engined Boeing 727 entered service with launch customer Eastern Air Lines (EA), one of the "Big Four" domestic airlines created by the Spoils Conferences of 1930.

The Boeing 727's final scheduled passenger flight was operated by Iran Aseman Airlines in January 2019 between Zahedan ...

United sought an aircraft for high-altitude ... due to a demand to fit in even more passengers per flight, Boeing produced the 727-200, which is 20 feet longer and can hold a few dozen more ...

The hostages' release on the day before Trump's inauguration harkens back to the Iranian hostage release in 1981.