Airline 7238 - Two pickups hollowbody
Electric hollowbody - Sunburst - Distributed by Montgomery Wards - Based on Harmony H70
Production year(s) : 1960-1964 (other years possible, not verified)

The 8448 is the earlier model (1958-1959), with trapeze tailpiece and "diamonds" pickups. The 7238 is the later version (from 1960), with mustache pickups and "harp" taipiece.

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Scale

24"1/4

615 mm

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• Cowhide Cole - 2007-09-20
  I own a Harmony/Airline and really dig the guitar. I was glad to find out it had a name "Meteor". Mine has the double moustache pickups. It's missing the pickguard but everything elese is original. What a cool guitar, I play it thur a modified Silvertone tube twin 12 amp..Cowhide
• blindmouse - 2007-11-02
  Just got my Airline (Harmony Meteor) last week (oct 2007). It's in a very good condition. Great sound through my Fender PRII. What I like most are the 'Moustache' DeArmond pickups. The four-fork tailpeace is nice too. Now the sunburst look is not glossy but kind of matte which gives it a real vintage vibe. Vintage it is. S-63 and the pickups are stamped Jan 28 1963. I just have to adjust the neck; it is not straight. I read the internet-articles about being really careful with the Harmony trussrod. I will take care and follow the advices!
  USA Harmony and Airline guitars are not very common in the Netherlands, I'm so glad I have one.
• Jinhu1 - 2007-12-18
  I have an Airline Meteor. My mother bought it used for me back in 1966.It is the first guitar I owned and I just recently had a luthier touch it up. Still original pick-ups, but the bridge has been replaced. Sounds great. I have an Ibanez SA220 that is my main guitar, but the Meteor adds a different tone when I need it.
• Cowhide Cole - 2008-02-28
  You know, my Meteor is a "poor man's" Gretsch. I had a Gretsch Anniversity years ago and I rather play the Meteor. I'm thinking about buying a repro. pick guard. Everthing else is original.
• DougScrubjay - 2008-06-03
  I've had my Airline since about 1989. I think I paid about $147 for it in Minneapolis. I wanted a guitar I didn't have to worry about the finish when I was playing out. Love the sound - plays nicely, thinner neck than a Gibson, sounds all retro - crunchy - lowtech. Perfect garageband sound, not super clean.
  Oddly, mine has trapeze tailpiece and DeArmond 'Moustache' pickups. I think Harmony used whatever parts were in the bin that day. It's hard to read the stamp now, I think it's a '62.
• willbo - 2009-05-21
  I am so bummed! I have this guitar exactly like the first large photo. It was my dads. I think he got it for Christmas 1961? The reason I am bummed is that in 1980 I decided to re-create some of the stage antics of Pete Townsend. Now it lays broken and ready for me to fix. Oh well, it'll make a good retirement project.
• mart nobbleman - 2009-10-14
  I'm a real Harmony lover I got some Harmony guitars. I'm a musician I'm doing shows and records, I'm playing 60's garage music, my guitars don't stay hooked on the wall... I play with them! I got this airline brown tobacco sunburst H54. A good friend of mine bought it on the web from this woman in Florida who forgot to mention that the body was cracked on the side on almost the half from the bottom. And repaired in a way that you wouldn't figure... A real mess! He was so disapointed that he sold it to me. I lend it to my band partner who accidently drop it on the floor and the guitar crack again like a duck beak. I took two weeks to repair it sanded, glued and repainted (with the sunburst effect). Now it's my main guitar, it sounds awesome, bass and treble that put your trouser down. Made for rock and roll, a real beauty for eyes and ears.