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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

Elsie Anderson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-04-17A
Abstract

Elsie Anderson worked at Boeing Company as a Public Relations representative, circa 1940s-1950s. The collection includes negatives, films, photographic prints, and a small amount of textual materials related to Boeing aircraft and test flights occurring during the 1940s-1950s.

Dates: 1940s-1950s

Julius A. Barr Photograph Albums and Films

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-10-24
Abstract

Julius A. Barr had a varied flight career in the 1920s and 1930s, notably spending time as a personal pilot to Chinese military figures and later working as a Boeing test pilot. The collection includes 5 albums with more than 1,600 photographs and 11 films that document his personal life and career.

Dates: 1926-1939

Herbert Brucker Film

 Collection — Box: Film Box 2, Reel: 1
Identifier: 2007-11-16-B
Contents of the Collection The Herbert Brucker Film is a small collection containing one privately shot black-and-white film taken at Mitchell Field in Garden City, New York in 1927. The film is five minutes and 44 seconds long. The footage depicts several well-known aviation events and activities by famous aviators, such as Charles Lindbergh taking off in the "Spirit of St. Louis" for his transatlantic flight; the christening of "America," Richard E. Byrd's Fokker C-2; and James Doolittle performing...
Dates: 1927

Terry Buckridge Alaskan Aviation Film Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1993-11-22
Contents of the Collection The Terry Buckridge Alaskan Aviation Film Collection is a small collection containing two privately-shot films from the 1940s relating to Alaskan aviation. The first film depicts a Star Air Service aircraft and a fishing trip to Lake Iliamna, Alaska, circa 1940s. It begins with footage of an unidentified group of men with fishing equipment, followed by shots of a Star Air Service Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket seaplane (tail number NC-10795) and aerial views of towns, bodies of water,...
Dates: circa 1940s

Floyd R. Daniel Boeing Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2010-01-20
Contents of the Collection The Floyd R. Daniel Boeing Collection is comprised of materials relating to Daniel’s 26-year career as photographer and videographer at the Boeing Company. The collection primarily consists of photographic materials and assorted documents relating to Daniel’s career, as well as seven films, all ranging from the late 1920s to early 1960s.The photographs, which are comprised of 95 black-and-white prints, nine color prints, 22 negatives, and three transparencies, consist of official...
Dates: 1920s-1960s

The James H. Dilonardo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-01-21
Abstract

James H. Dilonardo was a local aviation enthusiast strongly tied to Boeing Field and The Museum of Flight. His collection consits of photographs, textual materials, sound recordings, and film largely related to aviation in Seattle, Washington and the Pacific Northwest.

Dates: 1930-1981

James H. Howard Fighter Ace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-10-01
Contents of the Collection The James H. Howard Fighter Ace Collection contains textual, photographic, and audiovisual materials in support of James H. Howard's Medal of Honor awarded in June 1944. Materials include military records, clippings, and photographs, among others. Due to the collection's small size, it has been arranged alphabetically. Howard was awarded the Medal of Honor in June 1944 for actions taken on January 11, 1944, the only fighter pilot in the European Theater to earn the distinction....
Dates: 1944-1994; Majority of material found in 1944

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

Alan Lonsdale Patterson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2021-08-03-A
Overview Alan Lonsdale Patterson worked extensively in the field of aviation from the 1920s to the 1980s. Throughout his career he worked as a barnstormer, pilot and established multiple companies that facilitated the sale of aircraft and aeronautical equipment, predominately between companies based in the United States and China. The collection represents both his professional and personal life through correspondence, photographs, business records, clippings and audiovisual materials, as well as...
Dates: 1876-2021; Majority of material found within 1920-1981

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United States. Air Force 2
14th Air Force Association (U.S.). Flying Tigers 1
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Aiken, Joe, 1900-1969 (filmmaker) 1
Airservices Company Ltd. 1
Alaska Airlines 1
Albright, Sydney J. 1
Allied Engineering Corporation 1
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Amendola, John 1
American Airlines 1
American Aviation Historical Society 1
American Fighter Aces Association 1
Anderson, Elsie 1
Auton, Jesse D. 1
Barr, Effie Hortense, 1904-1985 1
Barr, Gene Edward, 1933- 1
Barr, JoAnn, 1930- 1
Barr, Julius A., 1905-1939 1
Barrett Airways 1
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 1
Blaine, Charles E., 1916-1943 1
Boeing Company 1
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 1
Bristol Aeronautics Corporation 1
Brucker, Herbert 1
Buckridge, Terry 1
Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957 1
Cally Curtis Company 1
Caniff, Milton, 1907-1988 1
Carlson, Ed D. "Skeeter" 1
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 1
China Airmotive Company Fed. Inc. 1
China National Aviation Corporation 1
Christensen Air Service 1
Christensen, Hakon, 1902-1956 1
Coandă, Henri, 1886-1972 1
Cole, Linda G. 1
Comstock, Harold E. 1
Conger, Paul A. 1
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 1
Consolidated Trading Company, Limited 1
Curtis, Cally 1
Curtiss 1
Daniel, Floyd R., 1919-2008 1
Dilonardo, James H., 1922-2000 1
Douglas 1
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
Eurasia Aviation Corporation 1
Experimental Aircraft Association 1
Fairchild 1
Farnborough International Airshow 1
Fiji Airways 1
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 1
General Airplanes Corporation 1
Germany. Luftwaffe 1
Gott, Edgar, 1887-1947 1
Grand Central Air Terminal (Glendale, Calif.) 1
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 1
Great Britain. Women's Auxiliary Air Force 1
Grumman (Bethpage, NY) 1
Guynemer, Georges, 1894-1917 1
Hall, Pat 1
Howard, James H. (James Howell), 1913-1995 1
Hubbard, Edward, 1889-1928 1
Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976 1
Jimenez, David 1
Johnson, Philip G. (Philip Gustav), 1894-1944 1
Kelly Field (Tex.) 1
Kelly, Arthur F. 1
Knechtel, Larry 1
Lamson, Robert T., 1914-2011 1
Langley Field (Va.) 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lockheed 1
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Luplow, Kenneth B., 1919- 1
McWhorter, Bettie 1
McWhorter, Richard J., 1921-2007 1
Merrill, Mildred E. (Filz), 1898-1980 1
Milliken, William F., 1911-2012 1
Mott, Herb, 1923-2017 1
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Navratil, Pat 1
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 1
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