Beneath is a general history of Airline
guitars and below that is a current listing of any
auctions of Airline guitars on ebay that are not
finalized. When you click on any of the auction links you
will find the ebay site opens in a new window. So you can
continue to browse this page of Airline guitars on ebay
while you look for more detail on the Airline guitars on
eBay's site.
The JB Hutto Montgomery Airline guitar is named after
legendary bluesman and slide guitar artist J.B. Hutto. Airline
Guitars were made in the US from 1958-68 by VALCO and sold
through Montgomery Ward. VALCO also made National and SUPRO
brands.
Airline guitars have recently been reissued by Eastwood
Guitars under the name of Airline DLX. Eastwood also offers the
model in a two pickup version and a three pickup version with
an added Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.
The reissue has many noticeable modifications: the guitars
are now made of wood instead of the original Res-o-Glass
material, have different tuning heads, different pickups
(original pickups were single coils in the shape of humbuckers
while the reissues have actual humbuckers) and an addition of a
master volume knob located in the bottom right part of the
pickguard. Original Res-O-Glas models now sell for
$2,000-$3,000.
Today they are played by bands and artists including David
Bowie, The Cure, PJ Harvey, Calexico but are most commonly
associated with Jack White of The White Stripes.
Following is a listing of current auctions of airline
guitars on ebay.
