Sleek and imposing against a pale sky, the Lockheed C-141A StarLifter glides in artist's rendering across this promotional postcard issued just as the aircraft was entering production — a piece of Cold War aviation history capturing the moment America unveiled its next-generation strategic military airlifter to a public still dazzled by the jet age. The back text identifies this as a "Fan-Jet Airlifter" built by the Lockheed-Georgia Company in Marietta, Georgia, describing a 316,000-lb transport capable of spanning either ocean nonstop with a 94,000-lb payload at 500 knots — figures that would have seemed extraordinary in 1963. The artwork, rendered in cool blue-grey tones with the distinctive "StarLifter" script across the fuselage and "Military Air Transport Service" beneath the wing, has the confident graphic sensibility of early-1960s aerospace promotional material. The C-141 first flew in December 1963 and served the USAF until 2006, logging missions from Vietnam to Operation Desert Storm; this card, likely produced for a trade show or congressional briefing circa 1962–1963, predates the aircraft's first flight — making it a genuine piece of pre-production aerospace ephemera.