Editing Trans World Airlines (section)

===Retired fleet===
Trans World Airlines had previously operated the following aircraft:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aerobernie.bplaced.net/TWA.html|title=TWA fleet|website=aerobernie.bplaced.net|access-date=February 20, 2021|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423151150/http://aerobernie.bplaced.net/TWA.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; text-align:center"
|+ Trans World Airlines retired fleet
|-
!Aircraft
!Total
!Introduced
!Retired
!Notes
|-
|[[Boeing 307 Stratoliner]]
|5
|1940
|1951
|
|-
|[[Boeing 707-120]]
|59
|rowspan=2|1960
|rowspan=2|1983
|
|-
|[[Boeing 707-320]]
|67
|One destroyed by a bomb as [[TWA Flight 841 (1974)|TWA Flight 841]].
|-
|[[Boeing 720B]]
|4
|1961
|1962
|Leased from [[Boeing]].
|-
|[[Boeing 727-100]]
|35
|1964
|1993
|
|-
|[[Boeing 727-200]]
|61
|1968
|rowspan=2|2000
|
|-
|[[Boeing 747-100]]
|25
|1970
|One crashed as [[TWA Flight 800]].
|-
|[[Boeing 747-200B]]
|7
|1984
|1998
|
|-
|[[Boeing 747SP]]
|3
|1979
|1986
|
|-
|[[Boeing 767-200]]
|12
|1982
|2001
|
|-
|[[Consolidated Fleetster]]
|1
|{{unknown}}
|{{unknown}}
|
|-
|[[Convair 880]]
|28
|1960
|1974
|One aircraft, N815AJ (formerly N828TW), a complete airframe, is in storage at Scroggins aviation. It is the only complete surviving Convair 880 used by TWA.
|-
|[[Curtiss Kingbird]]
|1
|1933
|{{unknown}}
|
|-
|[[Curtiss C-46 Commando]]
|1
|1942
|1942
|Leased from [[United States Army Air Force]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/41-5173/769559|title=C-46|access-date=April 23, 2021|archive-date=April 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423151151/https://www.planelogger.com/Aircraft/Registration/41-5173/769559|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
|[[Curtiss T-32 Condor II]]
|3
|1929
|1931
|
|-
|[[Douglas DC-1]]
|1
|1933
|1936
|Only DC-1 ever built.
|-
|[[Douglas DC-2]]
|31
|1934
|1942
|
|-
|[[Douglas DC-3]] 
|rowspan=2|104
|rowspan=2|1937
|rowspan=2|1957
|rowspan=2|
|-
|[[Douglas C-47 Skytrain]]
|-
|[[Douglas C-54 Skymaster]]
|14
|1946
|1961
|
|-
|[[Fairchild C-82 Packet]]
|1
|{{unknown}}
|{{unknown}}
|The aircraft, N9701F, which was a Steward-Davis Jet-Packet 3400, is now on display at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, where it keeps the registration.
|-
|[[Fokker Universal]]
|1
|1930
|1930
|
|-
|[[Fokker F-10]]
|8
|rowspan=3|1931
|{{unknown}}
|One crashed in [[1931 Transcontinental & Western Air Fokker F-10 crash]]
|-
|[[Fokker F-14]]
|2
|{{unknown}}
|
|-
|[[Fokker F-32]]
|2
|{{unknown}}
|
|-
|[[Ford Trimotor|Ford 5-AT-DS Trimotor]]
|22
|{{unknown}}
|1936
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-12 Electra Junior]]
|1
|1940
|1945
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-049 Constellation]]
|40
|1945
|1962
|One written off as [[TWA Flight 6963]].
|-
|[[Lockheed L-749 Constellation]]
|12
|1948
|rowspan=2|1968
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-749A Constellation]]
|28
|1950
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation]]
|10
|1952
|1964
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation]]
|28
|1955
|1967
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation]]
|9
|1957
|1961
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-1649A Starliner]]
|30
|1957
|1967
|
|-
|[[Lockheed L-1011 Tristar]]
|41
|1972
|1997
|One written off as [[TWA Flight 843]].
|-
|[[Lockheed JetStar|Lockheed L-1329 JetStar]]
|3
|{{unknown}}
|{{unknown}}
|Business jet
|-
|[[Lockheed Model 9 Orion|Lockheed Orion]]
|4
|1931
|{{unknown}}
|
|-
|[[Lockheed Vega]]
|4
|{{unknown}}
|{{unknown}}
|
|-
|[[Martin 2-0-2A]]
|12
|1950
|1959
|
|-
|[[Martin 4-0-4]]
|40
|1950
|1961
|One written off as [[TWA Flight 400]].
|-
|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14]]
|6
|rowspan=2|1966
|1979
|
|-
|rowspan=2|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15]]
|14
|1980
|
|-
|7
|rowspan=3|1986
|1999
|rowspan=2|Former [[Ozark Air Lines]] fleet.
|-
|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31]]
|18
|rowspan=2|2001
|-
|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32]]
|16
|
|-
|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-34]]
|3
|1986
|1999
|rowspan=2|Former [[Ozark Air Lines]] fleet.
|-
|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-41]]
|3
|1986
|rowspan=2|1999
|-
|[[McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51]]
|12
|1993
|Former [[Eastern Air Lines]] fleet.
|-
|[[Northrop Alpha]]
|14
|1931
|1935
|
|-
|[[Sikorsky S-61L]]
|1
|{{unknown}}
|{{unknown}}
| Helicopter
|-
|[[Stearman C3B]]
|1
|{{unknown}}
|{{unknown}}
|
|-
|}

TWA, at one time, also held orders for the BAC-Aérospatiale Concorde, Sud Aviation Caravelle, [[Boeing 2707]], and the [[Airbus A330-300]]. The remaining A330 orders were eventually converted to A318 orders.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/28/business/twa-order-to-airbus-is-expected.html|title=T.W.A. Order To Airbus Is Expected|website=New York Times|author=Agis Salpukas|date=March 28, 1989|access-date=April 23, 2021}}</ref> TWA, along with [[Southwest Airlines]] and [[USAir]], are the only major U.S.-based airlines to never have operated the [[McDonnell Douglas DC-10]].{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}