Delta Air Lines marks its centennial in 2025

Delta Air Lines celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2025, tracing its origins to a company founded in 1925 as Huff Daland Dusters.

Investors led by C.E. Woolman acquired the assets in 1928 and incorporated Delta Air Services, operating its first flight from Dallas to Jackson with a six‑person Travel Air S‑6000‑B, and later adding three more of the type before ending passenger service for a lucrative airmail contract and returning to crop dusting as Delta Air Corporation; passenger flights resumed in 1934 with the Stinson Model T Trimotor and the airline’s name was officially changed to Delta Air Lines in 1945.