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Richard J. McWhorter Stearman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-06-06
Abstract

Richard J. McWhorter (1921-2007) was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho and had a long standing and multi-faceted interest in aviation, including owning and restoring vintage airplanes. The collection includes manuscript materials, ephemera, audio-visual materials, and approximately three hundred (300) photographs documenting the restoration of a Stearman C-3B (#NC7550), on display at The Museum of Flight, as well as a Stearman C-3R (#NC656K).

Dates: 1927-2004 ; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1979

Larry Michelsen Pacific Northern Airlines textual materials

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1985-02-20
Contents of the Collection The Larry Michelsen Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) textual materials is a small collection of assorted newspaper clippings about PNA, circa 1959 and a photocopy of a merger decision for Western-Pacific Northern by the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1967. Many of the clippings are from unidentified newspapers, although some include identifying information. The materials are bound in a booklet with a front label, "Western-Pacific Northern Merger - Art Quinn." It is unknown who collected the...
Dates: 1959-1967

Kenneth E. Schultz Western Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1995-06-28
Overview

Kenneth E. Schultz was a Douglas DC-6B aircraft flight engineer for Western Airlines from the 1950s to 1960s. This small collection is comprised of materials related to the Western Airlines Chapter of Flight Engineers’ International Association and Shultz’s labor disputes with Western Airlines while he was employed with the company as a flight engineer.

Dates: 1948-1989

Wanda Smith Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2022-04-16
Contents of the Collection The Wanda Smith Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection consisting of photographs and clippings documenting Smith's career as a flight attendant for Eastern Airlines and Western Airlines in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection includes seven photographs of Smith in her Eastern Airlines uniform, including six formal individual portraits of her and one group portrait of her with several other flight attendants, circa 1956. There are also thirteen photographs of Smith and...
Dates: 1955-circa 1960s

Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2018-07-10
Contents of the Collection The Barbara Spraker Sea-Tac Airport Slides collection is a small collection consisting of 44 photographic slides depicting scenes at at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) in the mid-1970s. The 35mm color slides were taken by Spraker during her work as a tour guide for the Port of Seattle at Sea-Tac airport. A little under half the images depict various U.S.-based airliners at gates and on the tarmac. Airlines represented in the collection includes Alaska Airlines,...
Dates: 1972-1976

John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-09-12
Overview John Wegg is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of Airliners and Airways magazines, as well as contributor to other publications and author of 12 books on aviation history, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers. The John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection consists of about 2.7 cubic feet of material such as printed ephemera, photographs, documents, and other materials pertaining to the Wegg's aviation journalism...
Dates: 1929-2004; Majority of material found within circa 1950s-1990s

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transportation timetables 4
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Collective labor agreements 2
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Douglas DC-3 Family 2
Seattle (Wash.) 2
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advertisements 2
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luggage tags 2
memorandums 2
photocopies 2
postcards 2
posters 2
press releases 2
publications (documents) 2
signatures (names) 2
stationery 2
technical drawings 2
16mm (photographic film size) 1
8mm (photographic film size) 1
Aeronautics, Commercial 1
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Alaska 1
Anniversaries 1
Boeing Model 720B 1
Boeing Model 727 Family 1
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Cheyenne (Wyo.) 1
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Colorado Springs (Colo.) 1
Commuter aircraft 1
Denver (Colo.) 1
Douglas DC-4 Family 1
Douglas DC-6 Family 1
Douglas DC-7 1
Douglas M-2 Mailplane 1
Flight attendants -- Labor unions 1
Flight crews 1
Flight engineers 1
General Dynamics F-111 Family 1
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Lockheed C-69 Constellation Family 1
Los Angeles (Calif.) 1
Martin (Glenn L.) Model 202 (2-O-2) Family 1
McDonnell F-4 (F4H) Phantom II Family 1
Mexico 1
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Northwest, Pacific 1
Oregon 1
Portland (Or.) 1
Pueblo (Colo.) 1
Stamp collecting 1
Stearman (1927) Model C-2 1
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Stearman (1927) Model C-3R Business Speedster 1
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Washington (State) 1
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airmail covers 1
articles 1
baggage claim checks 1
boarding passes 1
booklets 1
books 1
business records 1
calendars (documents by form) 1
cartoons (humorous images) 1
certificates 1
checklists 1
crew lists 1
digital prints 1
diplomas 1
drawings (visual works) 1
financial statements 1
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United Airlines 5
Northwest Airlines Corporation 4
Pan American World Airways, Inc 4
Western Air Express Corporation 3
Alaska Airlines 2
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Eastern Air Lines 2
Hughes Airwest 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
Northwest Airlines, Inc. 2
Pacific Northern Airlines 2
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport 2
Air Line Pilots Association 1
Albright, Sydney J. 1
Amendola, John 1
American Aviation Historical Society 1
Barrett Airways 1
Byron, Arthur Wayne, 1933-2009 1
Bō̜risat Kānbin Thai 1
Cally Curtis Company 1
Capital Airlines 1
Carlson, Ed D. "Skeeter" 1
Cascade Airways 1
Cole, Linda G. 1
Continental Airlines 1
Curtis, Cally 1
Dale, Ethyl Y. 1
Delta Air Lines 1
Ditsworth (Coccio), Lorraine C. 1
Experimental Aircraft Association 1
Feeley, Philip G. 1
Flight Engineers' International Association 1
Frontier Airlines (1994-) 1
Goldberg, Arthur J., 1908-1990 1
Hall, Pat 1
Hanson, Doris 1
Haugen, Carolyn B. (Coleman) 1
Hebrew, Esther (Hutchings), 1922-2010 1
Jimenez, David 1
Kelly, Arthur F. 1
Khutut al-Jawwiyah al Tunisiyah 1
Knight, Rebecca (Blodgett) 1
Los Angeles International Airport 1
Martin Company 1
McWhorter, Bettie 1
McWhorter, Richard J., 1921-2007 1
National Airlines 1
National Parks Airways 1
Navratil, Pat 1
Pacific Southwest Airlines 1
Pan American-Grace Airways 1
Scandinavian Airlines System 1
Schultz, Ken (Kenneth E.) 1
Servicio Aéreo de Honduras 1
Silvius, Ray 1
Smith, Wanda Sue (Thomas), 1933-1997 1
Spraker, Barbara 1
Tanner Air Livery 1
Tasman Empire Airways (1940-1965) 1
Texaco, Inc. 1
Texas International Airlines 1
Thompson Aeronautical Corporation 1
Tillman, Barrett 1
Time Air 1
Tomlin, Pat 1
TranStar Airlines 1
Trans Texas Airways (1947-1969) 1
Trans World Airlines 1
Trans-Australia Airlines. (1946-1986) 1
Trans-Canada Airlines 1
TransBrasil (Airline) 1
Transamerica Airlines 1
Transamerican Airlines Corp. 1
Transcontinental Air Transport 1
Transport Aérien Transrégional 1
Transportes Aereos Centroamericanos 1
Transportes Aéreos Portugueses 1
Transwestern Airlines 1
Turkish Airlines 1
USAir (Firm) 1
Union Airways of New Zealand Limited 1
Union Aéromaritime de Transport 1
Union de transports aériens 1
United States Airways, Inc. 1
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 1
United States. Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron 1
United States. Navy 1
Universal Air Lines Corporation 1
VARIG (Airline) 1
VASP (Airline) 1
ValuJet Airlines Inc 1
Vancouver Helicopters 1
Varney Air Lines 1
Venezolana Internacional de Aviación 1
Virgin Atlantic Airways 1
Viscount Air Service 1
Ward Air 1
Wardair Canada Inc. 1
Wegg, John 1
West Coast Air 1
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