American Airlines Lockheed L188 Electra IIOriginal vintage airline travel advertising poster American Airlines Electra II promoting the addition of the new aircraft to their fleet featuring a colourful and bold midcentury modern design by Walter Bomar (1918 1988) showing a close up of twin propeller engines in the foreground with smartly dressed passengers boarding a plane in the background. The American turboprop airliner Lockheed L 188 Electra was first flown by American Airlines in 1959.