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Boeing Air Transport

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1927 - 1929

Historical Note

Boeing Air Transport, also seen as BAT or B.A.T., began in 1927 as an airmail carrier. It merged with various companies over the next few years and became United Aircraft and Transport Corporation (UATC) in 1929. In 1931 UATC, which included Boeing Air Transport, National Air Transport, Varney Airlines and Pacific Air Transport, established United Air Lines, which offered passenger and mail service from coast to coast.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

William E. Boeing Model 40B photographic poster

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-11-10
Contents of the Collection

The collection consists of one (1) 20x30" black-and-white photographic poster featuring the Boeing Model 40B (Tail number C 286), circa 1920s-1930s. The poster is cardboard-backed and has "W. E. Boeing [as before?] [illegible] 11.00 [Hoge?] 1128" handwritten in pencil on the reverse. The aircraft is in flight with unidentified mountains behind it and has "U.S. Mail C.A.M. 18" printed on the fuselage next to the Boeing Air Transport logo.

Dates: circa 1920s-1930s

George Leslie Boyd Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-10-24-A
Contents of the Collection The George Leslie Boyd Pilot Collection is comprised of Boyd’s personal pilot logbooks, assorted certifications and licenses, notes, as well as photographs related to Boyd’s time as a pilot with the United States Army Air Corps as well as United Airlines. The collection materials date from 1927 to 1967.The largest segment of materials in the collection are Boyd’s fifteen pilot logbooks. The logbooks begin in 1927 when Boyd first began his training as a pilot at the U.S. Air...
Dates: 1927-1983

Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23
Abstract

The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.

Dates: 1910s-2020s

Suzanne Graham Carvalho-Maia Eddie Hubbard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1984-00-24
Overview

Eddie Hubbard was an early aviator and Boeing airmail pilot. The collection includes visual and textual materials that document his career.

Dates: 1916-1920s

Steve A. Stimpson Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 1986-03-25
Abstract

Steve A. Stimpson was a manager for Boeing Air Transport in the 1920s-1930s. The collection contains one hundred and fifty-two (152) black-and-white photographs in an unbound photograph album documenting early United Airlines history.

Dates: circa 1920s-1930s

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