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Charles Ashby Shoop World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-04-22
Contents of the Collection The Charles Ashby Shoop World War II Collection contains textual and visual materials related to the World War II and post-war military service of Charles Ashby Shoop, a liaison pilot with the United States Army 104th Infantry Division. The bulk of the textual materials is Shoop’s 1942-1945 World War II and 1946-1960 post-war Reserve military service records, which include orders and assignments, promotion recommendations, memorandums and correspondence, and receipts and shipping...
Dates: 1942-1960
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Robert Short Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-01-07
Abstract

Robert McCawley Short (1904-1932) was born in Steilacoom, Washington and worked in China as chief instructor at China's School for Military Air Tactics from 1931-1932. The collection contains licenses, financial documents, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, biographical materials, and clippings related to Short's brief time in China. Additionally, the collection has photographs, ephemera, and correspondence related to the identification and preservation of his memorial.

Dates: 1932-1987
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Noah D. Showalter Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-02-25-A
Content Description The Noah D. Showalter Collection consists of textual, visual and audiovisual materials related to the career of N.D. Showalter, from his military service during World War II, to his time as a Boeing test pilot, and later work in military aircaft development.Showalter's military service as a bomber pilot during World War II is documented with a few military records but primarily with materials related to his involvement with the 483rd Bomb Group Association. Included are letters...
Dates: 1945-2012
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

John Hess Shuman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-02-03
Abstract

The collection contains the World War I diary of John Hess Shuman (1896-1972), who served as a member of the ground crew for the U.S. Army Air Service.

Dates: circa 1917-1919
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Signed Group Portrait of African American "Rosie the Riveters"

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-00-00-24
Contents of the Collection The collection consists of a single black-and-white group portrait of eight (8) female African American Boeing assembly workers. It is likely the women worked at the Boeing Renton facility, circa 1940s. The women are posed in front of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress and each has signed the photograph with their name: Back row, left to right: Louise Williams, [illegible], Velma Glass Johnson, Florence Thomas; Front row, left to right: Katie Jeffries, Althea Skelton, Ella Mae, Mary...
Dates: circa 1940s
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

Alden Drew Simonson Military Aviation Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-07-07
Content Description The Alden Drew Simonson Military Aviation Collection is a small collection consisting of textual and visual materials documenting Simonon's military service with the U.S. Navy during World War II and with the North Dakota Air National Guard after the war. The collection includes a "Flying the Weather" training booklet from the U.S. Navy with Alden's annotations; a logbook documenting his flights primarily at Naval Air Station Pensacola; separation records from his service with the U.S. Navy;...
Dates: 1944-1950
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Anne and Dottie Simpson Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2016-08-24
Content Description This small collection consists of materials related to Dorothy "Dottie" Lewis Simpson's flying career and some commercial airline ephemera. It is unclear if Dottie or her daughter Anne collected the ephemera. Material documenting Dottie Simpson includes her U.S. Army Air Corps wallet with her private pilot's license, medical certificate, and CAA identity card. Her pilot's flight log is also included and primarily covers 1944-1946 but has notations dating as late as 1997. The commercial...
Dates: 1944-1997
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

William V. Sipple Boeing Flying Fortress School certificate

 Collection — Box: Assorted oversize box 16, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 1992-11-02
Contents of the Collection

This small collection consists of a circa 1939-1945 Boeing Flying Fortress School certificate for William V. Sipple, Jr. The color lithograph features a Boeing Flying Fortress in flight. The caption printed on the front reads: "William V. Sipple, Jr., Honor Student, Boeing Flying Fortress School, Seattle, Washington." There is a printed caption on the verso which provides background information on the Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress.

Dates: 1939-1945
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Deke Slayton ASTP Joint Operations Checklist

 Collection — Box: Slayton Collections Box 1, Folder: 2021-11-18
Identifier: 2021-11-18-1
Content Description The Deke Slayton ASTP Joint Operations Checklist consists of a single item: Slayton's personal copy of the "ASTP Reference Joint Operations Checklist," published by NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, March 31, 1975. The checklist is an 80-page document with guidelines for docking and undocking the Apollo spacecraft with the Soyuz capsule during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. It also covers such topics as photo, television and movie ops; waste management; a fungi experiment; a microbial...
Dates: 1975 March 31
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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photographic prints 473
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photocopies 86
Airlines 84
World War, 1914-1918 80
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booklets 78
military records 78
negatives (photographs) 78
Flight attendants 67
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scrapbooks 64
brochures 62
slides (photographs) 61
Boeing Company -- Employees 58
photograph albums 57
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aerial photographs 56
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identity cards 54
Women in aeronautics 51
Washington (State) 49
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Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Family 46
notes (documents) 46
Seattle (Wash.) 45
business cards 45
lithographs 45
memorandums 44
decals 43
menus 42
posters 41
France 39
orders (military records) 39
photographic postcards 39
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area 38
Airplanes -- Design and construction 36
articles 36
notebooks 35
technical drawings 35
technical reports 35
digital prints 34
newsletters 34
Boeing Model 747 Family 33
programs (documents) 32
signatures (names) 32
Alaska 30
Fighter pilots 30
Seaplanes 30
Airships 29
personnel records 28
Flight training 27
Japan 27
Northwest, Pacific 27
Women air pilots 27
airline maps 26
Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 25
drawings (visual works) 25
instructional materials 25
stationery 25
transportation timetables 25
Boeing Model 707 Family 24
Germany 24
Aeronautics, Commercial 23
Airplanes -- Flight testing 23
advertisements 23
California 22
16mm (photographic film size) 21
Air mail service 21
Boeing B-29 Superfortress 21
Bombing, Aerial 21
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China 20
TMOF Aircraft 20
audiocassettes 20
manuals (instructional materials) 20
Air shows 19
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Family (Model 345) 19
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny 19
admission tickets 19
blueprints (reprographic copies) 19
manuscripts (documents) 19
Airports 18
Boeing Model 727 Family 18
Douglas DC-3 Family 18
England 18
Hawaii 18
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luggage tags 18
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Airplanes 17
Astronauts 17
DVDs 17
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United States. Army Air Forces 59
Boeing 58
Boeing Company 54
United Airlines 48
Pan American World Airways, Inc. 41
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 29
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 27
United States. Army. Air Corps 27
Trans World Airlines 24
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 21
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 19
United States. Army. Air Service 19
Western Airlines 19
King County International Airport 17
Project Apollo (U.S.) 17
United States. Army 17
United States. Marine Corps 15
North American 14
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 13
American Airlines 12
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 12
Douglas 12
Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.) 11
United States. Naval Reserve 11
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) 11
Alaska Airlines 10
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation 10
Lockheed 10
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th 10
Air Line Pilots Association 9
Braniff Airways 9
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 9
Douglas Aircraft Company 9
Eastern Air Lines 9
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973 9
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 9
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 8
Quiet Birdmen 8
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 7
Boeing Air Transport 7
Continental Airlines 7
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 7
Delta Air Lines 7
Flying Tiger Line 7
Hughes Airwest 7
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 7
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 7
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport 7
Slayton, Donald K., 1924-1993 7
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 7
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 6
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 6
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 6
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 6
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 6
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 6
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 6
John F. Kennedy Space Center 6
Merrill, A. Elliott (Albert), 1901-1992 6
National Championship Air Races 6
Northrop 6
Pacific Air Transport 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
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 5
American Fighter Aces Association 5
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 5
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 5
British Airways 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
Essex (Aircraft carrier) 5
Fairchild 5
Fokker 5
Germany. Luftwaffe 5
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 5
Johnston, A.M. (Alvin M.) 5
Kelly Field (Tex.) 5
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 5
McDonnell Douglas Corp 5
National Airlines 5
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 5
Scandinavian Airlines System 5
Scott, Clayton, 1905-2006 5
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 5
Stearman (1927) 5
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 5
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970 5
United States. Air Force. Military Air Transport Service 5
United States. Army. Air Service. Aero Squadron, 95th 5
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. Services of Supply 5

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