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Opray Family Military Aviation Collection

Collection

Identifier: 1999-09-25

Abstract Joseph E. Opray (1919-1992) was born in Oregon and served in World War II with the United States Army 635th Tank Battalion. The collection contains primarily World War II era materials including a scrapbook, several issues of the Stars and Stripes newspaper and assorted ephemera, including a poem, "A Hitch in Hell" by Joe Opray. There are also issues of the 1919 newsletterThe Dirigible from the...

Dates: 1919-1945

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

William Orthman World War II Collection

Collection

Identifier: 1991-07-17-A

Abstract

William Orthman (1911-1990) was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He served in the China-Burma-India Theater as Public Relations Officer. The collection is comprised of 340 photographs and a small amount of textual materials from his 1945-1946 service.

Dates: 1945-1946

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Thomas Orton Nose Art Photographs

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 1987-07-01-A

Contents of the Collection The Thomas Orton Nose Art Photographs is a single-file collection that is comprised of six photographs that depict nose art. Four of the images are black-and-white and are dated circa 1940s. Three depict shots of the Martin B-26 "Sit N'Git" and one image features the nose art for "Flak Bait." Two prints include military personnel next to the aircraft. There are also two color snapshots in the collection, likely circa 1970s-1980s. One image depicts Thomas Orton with General Chuck Yeager at an...

Dates: circa 1940s, 1970s-1980s

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Maria Osler Collection of Edward Scott Osler Logbooks and Photographs

Collection

Identifier: 2016-07-20

Abstract:

The Edward Scott Osler Logbooks and Photographs are comprised of logbooks and photographs pertaining to the work of commercial pilot, flight engineer, and test pilot Edward Scott Osler. This collection is primarily logbooks.

Dates: 1940-1948

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

Joann Osterud Logbooks

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2024-02-08

Content Description The Joann Osterud Logbooks is a collection of seven flight logbooks documenting Osterud's career as a pilot, dating from 1968-1986. The earliest book records Osterud's flights as a student pilot. Flights in the early 1970s include many out of Boeing Field (King County International Airport) in a Cessna 150A. Later logs document her work as a pilot primarily flying at airshows. Planes flown include Piper J-3 Cub and Stephens Akro. Her work for Alaska Airlines from 1975-1978 is...

Dates: 1968-1986

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Joann Osterud Record-Breaking Flight Photograph

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2019-12-09

Content Description The Joann Osterud Record-Breaking Flight Photograph is a small collection consisting of a single photograph depicting of Joann Osterud flying upside-down in her Ultimate Aero 10-300S, July 24, 1991 from Vancouver, B.C. to Vanderhoof, B.C on a record-breaking flight. The photograph is in color and measures 8x10 inches. It is inscribed, "To Clarice and Tom, Thanks! Joann, Vancouver to Vanderhoof, 7/24/91". The people mentioned in the inscription were Clarice Osterud and Tom Hargiss, Joann's...

Dates: 1991 July 24

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership cards

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2021-07-08

Content Description The Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership cards is a small collection consisting of two faux membership cards produced by Pan Am circa 1968-1971 for the "First Moon Flights" Club. One side of the card has room for a "member" to sign and has a pre-printed signature of James Montgomery, Vice President of Sales, along with an illustration of people in spacesuits walking on the Moon. Each card is individually stamped in red with a member number; these cards are 56168 and 56169. The back of...

Dates: circa 1969-1970

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Pan American Airways Postcards and Pacific Alaska Airways Photograph

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 1989-05-23

Contents of the Collection This small collection is comprised of three postcards for Pan American Airways and a photograph related to Pacific Alaska Airways. Of the postcards, two feature a Pan American Airways DC-6 with a text description on the reverse promoting the addition of "Super-6 Clippers" to the fleet, and the third depicts the "Sleeperette" lounge chair available on "President" flights. They are dated circa 1950s. The photograph depicts Pacific Alaska Airways personnel in front of a Lockheed 10 Electra,...

Dates: 1934, 1962

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Pan American World Airways Airmail Flight Menu

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: 1984-00-00-21

Contents of the Collection

The Pan American World Airways Airmail Flight Menu is a small collection is comprised of one folded-card dinner menu from the inaugural Air Mail flight from San Francisco to New Zealand on Pan American Airways Clipper "American," on July 12, 1940. The menu was signed by members of the crew, including Captain J. H. Tilton, while it was docked at the first stop on its route: Honolulu.

Dates: 1940 July 12

Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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Opray Family Military Aviation Collection

William Orthman World War II Collection

Thomas Orton Nose Art Photographs

Maria Osler Collection of Edward Scott Osler Logbooks and Photographs

Joann Osterud Airshow Collection

Joann Osterud Logbooks

Joann Osterud Record-Breaking Flight Photograph

Pan Am First Moon Flights Club membership cards

Pan American Airways Postcards and Pacific Alaska Airways Photograph

Pan American World Airways Airmail Flight Menu

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