Īirstream-badged Class A motorhomes began as 24- and 28-foot (7.3 and 8.5-m) models in 1979, and in the 1980s and 1990s, models ranging from 25 up to 37 feet (7.6 up to 11.2 m) were marketed. This trailer and Stella's Gold Airstream are the only two known gold Airstreams. This 1962 Airstream Tradewind on display at the 2019 Vintage Camper Trailer Rally in Gillette, Wyoming was custom ordered by then President of Airstream, Art Costello in 1961. They began as painted 20- and 24-foot (6.1 and 7.3 m) models, and were followed in 1979 by the first examples of the Classic model motorhome, with an unpainted aluminum body much like the trailers. In 1974, Airstream began manufacturing a Class A motorhome, badged "Argosy". 1979 saw the last Airstreams to be manufactured in California. In July 1952, a new facility in Jackson Center, Ohio, was established. Byam's company went back into production in 1948. When World War II ended, the economy boomed, and people's attention once again turned towards leisure travel. During World War II, travel became a luxury most could not afford and non-military industries faced an acute aluminum shortage. Of more than 400 travel trailer builders operating in 1936, Airstream was the sole survivor of the Depression. It slept four, carried its own water supply, was fitted with electric lights and cost $1,200. ![]() The first Airstream, called the "Clipper" in 1936, was named after the first trans-Atlantic seaplane. It was the first of the now familiar sausage-shaped, silver aluminum Airstream trailers. ![]() The design cut down on wind resistance and thus improved fuel efficiency. ![]() In 1936, Byam introduced the "Airstream Clipper", which was essentially a rebadged 1935 Bowlus Road Chief, with the door relocated from the front to the side. Byam published a magazine selling "how-to" kits to customers wishing to build their own trailers. The company was created by Wally Byam who began building trailers out of Masonite in his backyard in Los Angeles during the late 1920s. Refurbished Airstream trailer, California, March 21, 2013
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