EASTERN AIRLINES 1978 Rare 000 Bond Stock Certificate - Frank Borman Apollo 8

Description

Rare, vintage collectible piece of Eastern Airlines history.  Includes an intricate and interesting vignette of woman examining a globe.
Other than a few stains on the backside, this certificate in near-perfect condition - and was printed by United States Bank Note Company.  This is absolutely authentic, NOT a reproduction.  As many of you already know, paper stock and bond certificates have for the most part gone away in favor of electronic 'book-entry' ownership.  Physical certificates have become very collectible, and an important part of Wall Street history.
History:
Eastern Air Lines
, also colloquially known as
Eastern
, was a major American
airline
from 1926 to 1991. Before its dissolution, it was headquartered at
Miami International Airport
in an
unincorporated area
of
Miami-Dade County
,
Florida
.
Eastern was one of the "
Big Four
" domestic airlines created by the
Spoils Conferences
of 1930, and was headed by World War I flying ace
Eddie Rickenbacker
in its early years. It had a near monopoly in air travel between
New York
and
Florida
from the 1930s until the 1950s and dominated this market for decades afterward.
Frank Frederick Borman II
(born March 14, 1928) is a retired
United States Air Force
(USAF)
colonel
,
aeronautical engineer
,
test pilot
, businessman,
rancher
, and
NASA
astronaut
. He was the commander of
Apollo 8
, the first mission to fly around the Moon, and together with crewmates
Jim Lovell
and
Bill Anders
, became the
first of 24 humans to do so
, for which he was awarded the
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
. As of 2021
, he is the oldest living former American astronaut, eleven days older than Lovell.
After retiring from NASA and the USAF in 1970,
Borman
became senior vice
president
for operations at
Eastern Air
Lines. He became chief executive officer of
Eastern
in 1975, and chairman of the board in 1976.
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