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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

Apollo 11 Spacecraft Fifty-State Tour Press Kit

 Collection — Box: Assorted oversize box 25, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2019-08-08
Content Description The Apollo 11 Spacecraft Fifty-State Tour Press Kit is a small collection consisting of the press kit and related materials from the promotional tour of the Apollo 11 command module across the United States in 1970-1971. The press kit includes a folder containing seven 8x10" black-and-white prints, a mission report booklet, a press release with tour schedule, a "Log of Apollo 11" color booklet, and a tour map. Twelve 11x14" color lithograph prints reproducing photographs from the moon...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1970-1971

Frederick Nelson Atwood Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-10-13
Overview

The collection consists of one ledger book created by Frederick Nelson Atwood, circa 1862-1880, with his handwritten notes and illustrations. The ledger primarily consists of notes related to Atwood's career as an artist. Of particular interest note are his illustrations and notes on airships and balloons.

Dates: circa 1862-1880

Aviation Posters and Lithographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-00-00-4
Overview

The Aviation Posters and Lithographs collection is an artificial collection that contains oversize visual and textual materials that cover a variety of topics related to aviation including aircraft, early flight, air travel, World War II, and the United States Military. The posters cover a large span of years, from 1939 to 2010.

Dates: circa 1939-2010

Raphael and Bette Barto U.S. Air Force Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2019-04-27
Content Description The Raphael and Bette Barto U.S. Air Force Collection documents the Bartos' service in the U.S. Air Force in the 1940s through 1960s with a variety of textual and visual materials. Raphael Barto's military service as a fighter pilot is documented with flight records and logbooks, certificates and diplomas, documentation related to his Air Medal, and photographs. The logbook primarily covers his time in training at Randolph Field, Texas, but his individual flight records provide...
Dates: 1942-1966, 2019

Philip W. Barttels Apollo 13 Recovery Photographs Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2007-08-09
Content Description The Philip W. Barttels Apollo 13 Recovery Photographs Collection is a small collection consisting of images of the recovery of the Apollo 13 Command Module from the Pacific Ocean in 1970. The collection includes ten black-and-white photomechanical prints, one black-and-white photographic print, and five color photographic prints. The images depict the Command Module splashing down, recovery of the Apollo 13 crew and Command Module by U.S. Navy Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King helicopters of HS-4...
Dates: 1970

The Becvar Family Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-07-24
Abstract

George Becvar (1909-1990) was born in Denver, Colorado and with his brothers Lou (1908-1984) and Chuck (1904-1986) started Kent Flying Service which ran from approximately 1927-1930 in Kent, Washington. The collection consists of the pilot logbook for George Becvar and a scrapbook that primarily covers George Becvar's 1927-1931 flying career.

Dates: 1927-1990

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

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

Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-03-31
Overview

Peter M. Bowers (1918-2003) was an aeronautical engineer at The Boeing Company for 36 years but was more noted as an aviation historian who wrote several dozen books and close to 900 articles on aircraft. This collection is notable for the approximately 150,000 photographic images he amassed during his career, as well as his writing and research files. The materials span the early 1900s to 2003.

Dates: circa 1900s-2003

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photographic prints 30
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Air pilots -- Licenses -- United States 10
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certificates 10
logs (records) 9
memorandums 8
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negatives (photographs) 7
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Washington (State) 5
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Airplanes 2
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Consolidated B-24 Liberator Family 2
Consolidated PBY Catalina Family 2
Curtiss C-46 Commando Family 2
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny 2
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Korean War, 1950-1953 2
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United States. Air Force 4
United States. Army Air Forces 4
United States. Army. Air Corps 4
Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 3
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 3
Boeing Company 3
Haise, Fred, 1933- 3
John F. Kennedy Space Center 3
Project Mercury (U.S.) 3
Swigert, John L. (John Leonard), 1931-1982 3
United States. Marine Corps 3
Air Line Pilots Association 2
Aldrin, Buzz 2
Apollo 11 (Spacecraft) 2
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 2
Brand, Vance 2
Coats, Robert Charles, 1918-2011 2
Douglas Aircraft Company 2
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 2
Felts Field (Spokane, Wash.) 2
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 2
Iwo Jima (Amphibious assault ship) 2
King County International Airport 2
Kubasov, Valeri Nikolayevich, 1935-2014 2
Leonov, A. A. (Alekseĭ Arkhipovich), 1934- 2
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 2
Lovell, Jim 2
Munter, Herbert, 1894-1970 2
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 2
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 2
Rogers, Will, 1879-1935 2
Shepard, Alan B. (Alan Bartlett), 1923-1998 2
Skylab Program 2
Stafford, Thomas P. 2
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970 2
United Aircraft Corporation. Hamilton Standard Division 2
United Airlines 2
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 2
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 2
United States. Naval Reserve 2
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 2
Acosta, Bertrand "Bert" Blanchard 1
Aero Club of America 1
Aerojet Rocketdyne 1
Aerojet-General Corporation 1
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America 1
Alaska-Washington Airways 1
Alison, John R. (John Richardson), 1912-2011 1
All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, Inc. 1
American Eagle Aircraft Corp. 1
American Fighter Aces Association 1
Anders, William A. (William Alison), 1933- 1
Anderson, William Y. 1
Apollo 1 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 10 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 12 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 14 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 15 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 16 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 17 (Spacecraft) 1
Apollo 6 (Spacecraft) 1
Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.) 1
Armstrong, Neil, 1930-2012 1
Atwood, Frederick Nelson, 1844-1900 1
Augarten, Rudolph 1
Avenger Field (Sweetwater, Tex.) 1
Baird, Robert 1
Balch, Donald L. 1
Balchen, Bernt, 1899-1973 1
Barber, Rex T., 1917- 1
Barling 1
Barto, Bette J. (Harris), 1928- 1
Barto, Raphael H., 1921-1997 1
Barttels, Philip W. 1
Bean, Alan, 1932-2018 1
Bechtel, Paul S. 1
Becvar, Chuck, Jr., 1904-1986 1
Becvar, George, 1906-1990 1
Becvar, Lou, 1908-1984 1
Becvar, Robert 1
Beebe, Marshall Ulrich 1
Bellanca 1
Bennett, C. 1
Bennett, Floyd 1
Blair, William Knox 1
Blum, Alan L., 1907-1994 1
Blum, Elizabeth 1
Blum, John R., 1905-1931 1
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 1
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 1
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 1
Boeing, Bill, Jr., 1922-2015 1
Bohrer, Walt 1
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 1
Borden, John 1
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