American Airlines Celebrates 90 Years of Aviation and Innovation

15-Apr-2016 Today, American Airlines celebrates 90 years of leading the world of commercial aviation, connecting families, businesses and cultures around the globe. American's long, proud history began on the morning of April 15, 1926, when legendary aviator Charles A. Lindbergh, the chief pilot of Robertson Aircraft Corporation, stowed a bag of mail in his DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago, headed to St. Louis. Nine decades later, Robertson is counted as one of the many airlines that would eventually make up what is now the world's largest carrier - American Airlines.