• Country
• United States of America (USA)

• Manufacturer / Brand
• Montgomery Ward & Co. (Wards, Airline); Chicago, IL

• Year
• 1938/1939

• Category
• Broadcast Receiver - or past WW2 Tuner

• Radiomuseum.org ID
• 48061

• • Brand: Airline or Air-Line

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• Number of Tubes
• 11

• Valves / Tubes
• 6D6 6C6 76 6D6 6U5 76 76 76 41 41 80

• Main principle
• Superhet with RF-stage; ZF/IF 456 kHz; 2 AF stage(s)

• Tuned circuits
• 7 AM circuit(s)

• Wave bands
• Broadcast, Short Wave(s) and Police.

• Power type and voltage
• Alternating Current supply (AC) / 60 cycles, 117 Volt

• Loudspeaker
• Electro Magnetic Dynamic LS (moving-coil with field excitation coil) / Ø 10 inch = 25.4 cm

• Power out
• 5 W (unknown quality)

• Material
• Wooden case

• from Radiomuseum.org
• Model: Airline 62-402 Order= P162 A 402 Ch= 83WG-402A - Montgomery Ward & Co. Wards,

• Shape
• Console with any shape - in general

• Dimensions (WHD)
• 25.5 x 41 x 13 inch / 648 x 1041 x 330 mm

• Notes

• BC (528-1600 kHz), TROP (1585-5400 kHz) and SW (5.35-18.3 MHz) bands. Tuning eye. Push-pull audio amplifier.

  Same model but with Electric Tuning and Variable Selectivity Control: Model Airline 62-401.

• Price in first year of sale
• 43.95 $

• External source of data
• Ernst Erb

• Circuit diagram reference
• Rider's Perpetual, Volume 9 = 1938 and before

• Mentioned in
• Rider's 9-34, 9-56

• Literature/Schematics (1)
• Pre-War Consoles

• Literature/Schematics (4)
• Montgomery Ward Catalogs (Wards, Airline) (Fall/Winter 1938/39, No. 129, page 583.)

• Other Models

• Here you find 2289 models, 1458 with images and 1786 with schematics for wireless sets etc. In French: TSF for Télégraphie sans fil.
  All listed radios etc. from Montgomery Ward & Co. (Wards, Airline); Chicago, IL