On the morning of April 15, 1926, a young aviator named Charles A. Lindbergh stowed a bag of mail in his little DH-4 biplane and took off from Chicago for St. Louis. Later that day, he and two other pilots flew three plane loads of mail from St. Louis to Chicago. At the time, Lindbergh was chief pilot of Robertson Aircraft Corporation of Missouri, which was the second aviation company to hold a U.S. airmail contract. It was one of scores of companies that eventually consolidated to form the modern-day American Airlines.

The consolidation began in 1929, when The Aviation Corporation was formed to acquire young aviation companies, including Robertson. In 1930, The Aviation Corporation’s airline subsidiaries were incorporated into American Airways, Inc. In 1934, American Airways became American Airlines, Inc. This was the humble beginning of what was to become the world's largest airline.

Today, following the 2015 merger with US Airways, the Fort Worth, TX based company operates a fleet of more than 1000 aircraft with a network that spans the globe. This series of prints depicts the current American Airlines aircraft fleet in the new poet-merger livery and is appropriately titled, "New Day Dawning".