The airline operated propeller airplanes.

Presley and his band chartered a small propeller airplane to Nashville for one day of recording between shows.

The E-2 and its sister, the C-2 Greyhound, are currently the only propeller airplanes that operate from aircraft carriers.

He heard the unmistakable whine of a propeller airplane as it was turning to attack.

Dozens of propeller airplanes shuttled riders from here in the capital to the interior of this vast country.

"It's like moving from a kite to a propeller airplane."

Just a few miles away, the pilots of four other propeller airplanes, including another ATR-42, were struggling to control planes suddenly coated with ice.

It's an asphalt strip, uneven and not very long, barely adequate to take small propeller airplanes.

This is how simple propeller airplanes work.

As vice president of operations for American Airlines, from 1957 to 1966, he oversaw the transition from propeller airplanes to jets.