JB Hutto Montgomery Airline
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Airline Guitars were guitars made in the United States from 1958-68 by VALCO and sold through Montgomery Ward. VALCO also made National and SUPRO brands. Today they are played by people like David Bowie, The Cure, Calexico but are most commonly associated with Jack White of The White Stripes. Original Res-O-Glas models now sell for $2,000-$3,000.
They have recently been reissued by the Eastwood guitar company under the name of the airline DLX. However the reissue has many noticeable changes/improvements; for example, the guitars are now made of wood instead of the original res-o-glass material, have different tuning heads, different pickups (original pickups were single coils in the shape of humbuckers while the reissues have actual humbuckers) and an addition of a master volume knob located in the bottom right part of the pickguard. Eastwood also offers the model in a two pickup version and a three pickup version with an added Bigsby tremolo.
This guitar is named after legendary bluesman and slide guitar artist JB Hutto.
