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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
Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook
Collection — Box: Assorted oversize box 20, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2022-00-00-105
Content Description
The Gene M. Allred Air-Navigation Workbook is a small collection consisting of a single item: the Air-navigation workbook: pre-flight--primary training manual used by Allred at the U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School, at St. May's College in California in 1943. The workbook was published by the Aviation Training Division, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Air) U.S. Navy and consists of position plotting sheets, sheets of graph paper, logs, and a star finder and...
Dates:
1943
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
American Fighter Aces Association Oral Interviews
Collection
Identifier: 2002-02-13-1139
Abstract
Collection of approximately one hundred twenty (120) oral histories of Fighter Aces and several non-aces, including relatives of aces, other military pilots, and military historians.
Dates:
circa 1960s-1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
William H. Anderson Pilot Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2025-04-14-1
Contents of the Collection
The William H. Anderson Pilot Collection holds textual and visual materials related to the military service and post-war test pilot career of William H. Anderson from 1942-2023. The collection has been divided into two series: Military materials and Professional materials with items filed chronologically in each series. Military materials contains primarily textual items from Anderson's...
Dates:
1942-2023; Majority of material found within 1942-1966
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
Clarence Bale United States Navy Collection
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1989-11-01
Contents of the Collection
The Clarence Bale United States Navy Collection is quite small and holds several textual items and small objects related to Navy airships and battleships from 1933 to 1944, collected by Clarence Bale. The collection documents two Navy airships, the USS Macon and the USSAkron. Two February 12, 1935 dispatches from the Macon describe its destructive crash. The USS...
Dates:
1933-1944, undated
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
David F. Beyl and Donald D. Beyl Logbooks
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2009-09-22
Contents of the Collection
The David F. Beyl and Donald D. Beyl log books is a small collection of nine (9) United States Naval Aviator and civilian pilot logbooks belonging to brothers David and Donald Beyl, ranging from 1943-1987. Four (4) of the logbooks belonged to David D. Beyl and span approximately from 1954 to 1978, covering David's US Navy service. The other five (5) logbooks belonged to his brother, Donald F. Beyl, and cover his military and civilian flight history, ranging from 1943-1987. ...
Dates:
1943-1987; Majority of material found within 1950s-1960s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
John and Alan Blum Northwest Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-09-04
Abstract
The John and Alan Blum Northwest Aviation Collection consists of visual and textual materials related to the lives and careers of John and Alan Blum. John founded the Northwest Air Service Company and Alan served as President after his brother died in a plane crash in 1931.
Dates:
1921-1945
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
William E. Boeing Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2005-10-06-B
Abstract
William E. Boeing, Sr. (1881-1956) was an aviation pioneer and founded The Boeing Company in 1916. The collection holds textual materials, such as correspondence, philately, business-related materials, clippings, and ephemera, as well as photographs and illustrations related to his personal and business life, circa 1783-2008. Major areas of interest include family photographs and extensive personal and business-related correspondence.
Dates:
circa 1783-2008; Majority of material found within 1900s-1930s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives