National Championship Air Races
Organization
Historical Note
The National Air Races (also known as Pulitzer Trophy Races) are a series of pylon and cross-country races that have taken place in the United States since 1920. During World War II and from 1950-1963, the races were on hiatus. In 1964, they resumed as the Reno National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nevada and are still ongoing.
Citation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Air_RacesFound in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Joe Aiken Films
Collection — Box Film Box 4, Reel: 1-6
Identifier: 1998-12-28
Contents of the Collection
The Joe Aiken Films are comprised of six films shot, produced, or compiled by Joe Aiken of 20th Century Fox Studio, from approximately 1918-1947. The films contain a mix of newsreel footage, documentary footage of aircraft manufacturing, and flight footage. Three of the films contain footage of World War I flying aces, flying squadrons, World War I-era aircraft, and transatlantic flight attempts. One of the films contains newsreel footage of the attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II and the...
Dates:
circa 1918-1950s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Army Air Corps Photographs
Collection
Identifier: 1993-12-02
Abstract
The Army Air Corps Photographs is comprised of fifty-nine black-and-white photographs primarily depicting the 1923 Pulitzer Air Race and Mitchell Trophy Race with ten snapshots featuring the Sacramento Air Depot in 1940.
Dates:
1923, 1940
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Robert L. Simons Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1998-05-05-B
Overview
Robert Lewis Simons was a military and commercial pilot in the mid-twentieth century. The Collection is comprised of materials relating to Simons’ career , including log books, military records, photographs, and films.
Dates:
1925-1972; Majority of material found within 1938-1948
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
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- Airplanes, Military 2
- Airships 2
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- Ships 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- de Havilland (Airco) D.H.4 2
- photographic prints 2
- 16mm (photographic film size) 1
- 8mm (photographic film size) 1
- Aces (Fighter pilots) 1
- Aeronautics, Commercial 1
- Aircraft accidents 1
- Airlines 1
- Airplane factories 1
- Airplane occupants 1
- Airplanes -- Formation flying 1
- Airports 1
- Alaska 1
- Aviation ground crews 1
- Boats and boating 1
- Boeing (Thomas-Morse) MB-3A 1
- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 1
- Boeing Model 247D 1
- Boeing XB-15 (Model 294, XBLR-1) 1
- Boeing Y1B-17 Flying Fortress (Model 299B, YB-17, B-17) 1
- Bush flying 1
- Bush pilots 1
- China 1
- Commuter aircraft 1
- Curtiss 18-T Wasp (Curtiss-Kirkham) 1
- Curtiss NBS-1 (Martin MB-2) 1
- Curtiss P-36 Hawk Family 1
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- Curtiss R2C-1 Racer 1
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- Dayton (Ohio) 1
- Denali, Mount (Alaska) 1
- Douglas B-18 Family 1
- Douglas DC-2 Family 1
- Douglas DC-3 Family 1
- Douglas DC-4 Experimental (DC-4E) 1
- Douglas DT-5 1
- Douglas Dolphin Family 1
- Engineering Division NBL-1 Barling Bomber 1
- Farman (Brothers) Sport Biplane (1919) 1
- Flight crews 1
- Fokker A-2 (F.IV) 1
- Fokker CO-4 Mail (Atlantic Model 3) 1
- Fokker D.VII (V.18) 1
- Fokker T-2 (F.IV) 1
- Grumman F3F Family 1
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- Junks 1
- Kōbe-shi (Japan) 1
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- Martin (Glenn L.) B-10/B-12 Family (Model 139) 1
- Martin (Glenn L.) MT Torpedo Bomber, Racing Modification 1
- Motion pictures 1
- Naval Aircraft Factory N3N Family 1
- Nome (Alaska) 1
- North American BT-9/BT-14 Family 1
- Northrop A-17 (8A) Nomad 1
- Okinawa Island (Japan) 1
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) 1
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Pfalz D.VIII 1
- Pfalz D.XII 1
- Saint Louis (Mo.) 1
- Seaplanes 1
- Shanghai (China) 1
- Soldiers 1
- Sopwith Camel Family 1
- Stunt flying 1
- Submarines (Ships) 1
- Thompson Trophy 1
- Verville-Sperry R-3 1
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