I have a Wards Airline Radio, Model 15BR - 1543A, table AM radio that belonged to my grandparents. I am curious as to its age. Can someone comment on this pleas?

:I have a Wards Airline Radio, Model 15BR - 1543A, table AM radio that belonged to my grandparents. I am curious as to its age. Can someone comment on this pleas\?

Its A pre 1952

Hi Jack,
Your Airline is a 1951 model. It is a 5-tube AC/DC radio, using tubes 12BE6, 12BA6, 12AV6 (or 12AT6), 50C5, and 35Z5GT. Service data was published in SAMS Photofact 145-2, dated Sept. 1951. "Collector's Guide to Antique Radios, 5th Edition" lists a value of this radio of $35-$40.

Poston

:I have a Wards Airline Radio, Model 15BR - 1543A, table AM radio that belonged to my grandparents. I am curious as to its age. Can someone comment on this pleas?

:Hi Jack,
:Your Airline is a 1951 model. It is a 5-tube AC/DC radio, using tubes 12BE6, 12BA6, 12AV6 (or 12AT6), 50C5, and 35Z5GT. Service data was published in SAMS Photofact 145-2, dated Sept. 1951. "Collector's Guide to Antique Radios, 5th Edition" lists a value of this radio of $35-$40.
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:Poston
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::I have a Wards Airline Radio, Model 15BR - 1543A, table AM radio that belonged to my grandparents. I am curious as to its age. Can someone comment on this pleas?

:Hi Jack,
:Your Airline is a 1951 model. It is a 5-tube AC/DC radio, using tubes 12BE6, 12BA6, 12AV6 (or 12AT6), 50C5, and 35Z5GT. Service data was published in SAMS Photofact 145-2, dated Sept. 1951. "Collector's Guide to Antique Radios, 5th Edition" lists a value of this radio of $35-$40.
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:Poston
Thanks for the information. I thought it might have been an older radio my grandfather gave as a gift to grandma, but I was unsure. 1951 sounds right to me also. After all these years, it still works, and as far as I know, with the original tubes
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::I have a Wards Airline Radio, Model 15BR - 1543A, table AM radio that belonged to my grandparents. I am curious as to its age. Can someone comment on this pleas?

Jack,
Although it is a 1951 model, your grandfather might have purchased it in 1950. Radio models for each new year were commonly released by the manufacturers during the latter part of the previous year, in order for them to be available to consumers in time for the busy Christmas selling season.

Not unusual for radios of this era to still work. When they do give problems, it is usually due to electrolytic filter capacitors which are easily replaced.

Poston

:Thanks for the information. I thought it might have been an older radio my grandfather gave as a gift to grandma, but I was unsure. 1951 sounds right to me also. After all these years, it still works, and as far as I know, with the original tubes