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Elaine P. Austin Northwest Orient Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2013-05-07
Contents of the Collection The Elaine P. Austin Northwest Orient Airlines (NWA) Flight Attendant Collection is relatively small and comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs. The bulk of the material was collected by Austin during her flight attendant career with Northwest Orient Airlines from 1960-1965.Textual materials include a large amount of stewardess training materials, including instructions for various safety procedures, aircraft layouts, and assorted work sheets from stewardess...
Dates: 1922-1961; Majority of material found within 1959-1961
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Aviation Artwork Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2022-00-00-86
Abstract

The Aviation Artwork Collection contains original works on paper and lithographic reprints of artwork related to aviation. The collection contains a wide variety of aviation-related artwork with themes of travel, war, innovation, and history.

Dates: circa 1920s-1990s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Aviation Posters and Lithographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-00-00-4
Overview

The Aviation Posters and Lithographs collection is an artificial collection that contains oversize visual and textual materials that cover a variety of topics related to aviation including aircraft, early flight, air travel, World War II, and the United States Military. The posters cover a large span of years, from 1939 to 2010.

Dates: circa 1939-2010
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Avro Lancaster technical report and letter

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 1986-08-12-A
Content Description The Avro Lancaster technical report and letter is a small collection of textual materials about the Avro Lancaster from 1942. The collection includes one bound volume with information about the Avro Lancaster bomber including a general description, information on the Merlin and Hercules engines, technical data, plans and elevation drawings, and proposed bomb placement diagrams. The plans and elevation drawings are folded into the volume but unfold to dimensions of about 29x39 inches. A...
Dates: 1942
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

John L. Bailey Boeing Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2023-10-02
Contents of the Collection The John L. Bailey Boeing Collection contains textual and visual materials that primarily pertain to John L. Bailey's work as an engineer at the Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington. Most materials date from 1948 to 1982. The collection has been divided into two series: Military materials and Professional materials. Military materials is the first and smallest series. It touches upon Bailey's United States Air Force service during World War II. His...
Dates: 1939-1982
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Robert Bailey "Tuskegee Trigger Time" Signed Lithograph

 Collection — oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2022-05-13
Contents of the Collection This single-item collection consists of a lithograph titled "Tuskegee Trigger Time" reproducing a painting done by aviation artist Robert Bailey in 2005. The 23 x 34" print is numbered (78/100) and depicts the Tuskegee Airmen of the 301st Fighter Squadron, 332nd Fighter Group in North American P-51 Mustangs fending off a Luftwaffe attack while escorting a Royal Air Force de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito during a photo reconnaissance mission above Germany during early 1945. It features "Creamer's...
Dates: 2005
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Joseph Baillargeon Douglas World Cruisers Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2011-00-00-13
Contents of the Collection The Joseph Baillargeon Douglas World Cruisers Photograph Collection contains 33 black-and-white photographs of Douglas World Cruisers in Alaska during the 1924 around-the-world flight. The aircraft are depicted in flight, on the ground, and afloat in an Alaskan harbor, likely in April 1924. In most of the aircraft images it is difficult to know which specific plane is depicted as the views are often obscured or seen from a distance. Some images include unidentified individuals, including the...
Dates: 1924
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Elmer A. Ball World War II Negatives

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-06-30
Content Description The Elmer A. Ball World War II Negatives is a collection of 184 photographic negatives taken by Ball during his service with the U.S. Navy, much of which took place in Guam during the later years of World War II. The negatives are all medium format black-and-white negatives, except for one color transparency. They were not organized in any particular manner.The images depict a variety of people, activities, and buildings in and around Naval Air Station Agana on Guam from roughly...
Dates: circa 1944-1950
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

William Frederick Barns U.S. Air Force Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-04-13
Abstract

William Frederick "Bill" Barns (1920-1995) joined the United States Air Force in 1942 and flew in the European Theater during World War II. After the war, Barns served in the USAF in several capacities until his retirement in 1966 when he went to work in the private sector, including for Garrett Corporation. The collection contains a broad array of textual materials as well as photographs and digital images related to his military and professional careers.

Dates: 1941 to 1990s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Julius A. Barr Clippings

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-3
Abstract

Julius A. Barr (1905-1939) was born in Normal, Illinois and spent time as a personal pilot to Chinese military figures in the mid-1930s as well as worked as a Boeing test pilot from 1938-1939. The collection contains four clippings related to Barr's time at Boeing and his death.

Dates: 1938-1939
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 25
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Boeing Model 707 Family 21
advertisements 21
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luggage tags 19
manuals (instructional materials) 19
Douglas DC-3 Family 18
England 18
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admission tickets 18
blueprints (reprographic copies) 18
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Douglas C-47 Skytrain Family 17
Hawaii 17
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 16
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United States. Army Air Forces 57
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United Airlines 45
Pan American World Airways, Inc. 41
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 28
United States. Army. Air Corps 27
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 25
Trans World Airlines 23
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 21
United States. Army. Air Service 19
Western Airlines 19
Project Apollo (U.S.) 17
United States. Army 17
United States. Marine Corps 15
King County International Airport 14
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 13
North American 13
Douglas 12
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 12
American Airlines 11
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 11
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 10
Lockheed 10
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th 10
United States. Naval Reserve 10
Alaska Airlines 9
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 9
Curtiss 9
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 9
Air Line Pilots Association 8
Braniff Airways 8
Douglas Aircraft Company 8
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 8
Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.) 8
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 7
Continental Airlines 7
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 7
Delta Air Lines 7
Eastern Air Lines 7
Flying Tiger Line 7
Hughes Airwest 7
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 7
Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993 7
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 7
Boeing Air Transport 6
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 6
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 6
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 6
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 6
John F. Kennedy Space Center 6
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 6
National Championship Air Races 6
Northrop 6
Quiet Birdmen 6
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport 6
United States. Army. European Theater of Operations 6
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 6
United States. Army. Signal Corps 6
Varney Air Lines 6
Wright, Wilbur, 1867-1912 6
American Fighter Aces Association 5
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 5
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 5
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 5
China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston" (#3) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Chicago" (#2) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "New Orleans" (#4) 5
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Seattle" (#1) 5
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 5
Germany. Luftwaffe 5
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 5
KLM (Airline) 5
Kelly Field (Tex.) 5
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 5
McDonnell Douglas Corp 5
National Airlines 5
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 5
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 5
Scandinavian Airlines System 5
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 5
Stearman (1927) 5
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 5
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 95th 5
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Services of Supply 5
Aerocar, Inc 4
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 4
Barr, Julius A., 1905-1939 4
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 4
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 4
British Airways 4
China National Aviation Corporation 4
Dallas Love Field 4
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 4
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 4
Fairchild 4
Fokker 4

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