United States. Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron

Organization

Staff Only

Historical Note

The Blue Angels is the United States Navy's flight demonstration squadron, with aviators from the Navy and Marines. The Blue Angels team was formed in 1946, making it the second oldest formal flying aerobatic team (under the same name) in the world, after the French Patrouille de France formed in 1931.

Citation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Angels

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2009-06-05

Contents of the Collection The Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs that document Byron's commercial pilot career with Western Airlines and Delta Airlines. Materials date from mid-1940s through the 1980s.Textual materials include pilot logs dating from 1955-1987; organizational records for Western Airlines, including documents related to the merger of Western Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines in 1967, as well as the merger of...

Dates: circa 1940s-1980s

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Bruce Mennella Vietnam War Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2017-04-07

Abstract

Bruce Mennella (b. 1946) served during the Vietnam War from 1969-1972 as an Air Intelligence Officer for U.S. Navy Fighter Squadron 114 (VF-114). The collection contains photographs and a small amount of ephemera documenting his military service.

Dates: 1968-1972

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Joann Osterud Airshow Collection

Collection

Identifier: 2021-10-29-A

Overview

Joann Osterud was a stunt pilot who flew in airshows from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Slides, photographs and audiovisual recordings in the collection document her stunt performances from her early career through 1990, including ones in her Stevens Akro plane which is in the Museum's collection.

Dates: 1966-1994, 2000; Majority of material found within 1973-1990

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives