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Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2009-06-05
Contents of the Collection The Arthur Wayne Byron Airline Pilot Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials with some photographs that document Byron's commercial pilot career with Western Airlines and Delta Airlines. Materials date from mid-1940s through the 1980s.Textual materials include pilot logs dating from 1955-1987; organizational records for Western Airlines, including documents related to the merger of Western Airlines and Pacific Northern Airlines in 1967, as well as the merger of...
Dates: circa 1940s-1980s

David O. Hill Seaboard World Airlines Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-12-20
Abstract

David O. Hill (1939-) was a pilot for Seaboard World Airlines (SWA). Hill was also SWA's archivist and historian. The collection relates to the company history, personnel, and operations of Seaboard World Airlines (SWA), from its establishment in 1946 to 1980 when it merged with Flying Tigers Line and is comprised primarily of textual materials, the bulk of which are scrapbooks; but also includes photographic materials, including prints, slides, and negatives; and a single DVD.

Dates: 1946-2003; Majority of material found within 1946-1980

Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1996-11-26
Abstract

The Elrey B. Jeppesen Papers documents the career and personal life of aviator and aerial navigation pioneer Elrey B. Jeppesen. This collection is comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials created and collected by EBJ and his wife and business partner, Nadine Audrey (Liscomb) Jeppesen. The documents date from 1843-1996, with the bulk of the material dating from 1940-1979.

Dates: 1843-1996 ; Majority of material found within 1940-1979

William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-06-20
Abstract William P. “Bill” Lear was a prolific inventor with dozens of patents for a variety of machines to his name but is most famous for his work in the aviation field. Moya Marie Olsen Lear was a philanthropist, businesswoman, and the wife of aviation pioneer Bill Lear. The collection documents Bill Lear's inventions and career in the fields of radio navigation, aircraft design, the 8-track player, and his efforts at a steam-powered turbine. Materials are predominantly affiliated with Lear’s many...
Dates: 1838-2001, undated; Majority of material found within 1939-1986

Jean Marie (Granfield) Lyons Northeast Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2008-08-27
Contents of the Collection The Jean Marie (Granfield) Lyons Northeast Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials and a small amount of photographs collected by Lyons during her 1951-1953 flight attendant career with Northeast Airlines. There are ten (10) photographs and nine (9) negatives. The photographs range in size from 3x5" to 8x10 and are mostly black-and-white. Two images have been colorized. Lyons is featured in most of the images, which are a mix of portraits...
Dates: 1951-1953

Bruce R. McCaw Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-01-15
Abstract

The Bruce R. McCaw Aviation Collection contains textual materials related to McCaw's work with Horizon Air during the early development of the regional airline carrier from 1980 through 1987, as well as assorted material from 1970 to 1997 from McCaw’s professional and personal experience as a pilot.

Dates: 1978-1999

Janet McMullen Pan Am Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2008-08-03
Contents of the Collection The Janet McMullen Pan Am Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of primarily textual materials collected by McMullen during and after her Pan American Airways (PAA) flight attendant career, 1960-1992.Materials include two (2) oversize Pan Am wall calendars (1960 and 1992); Pan Am ephemera, such as luggage tags, advertising brochures, and a 1966 timetable; employee documents, such as retirement information (1979), an orientation booklet, scheduling documents, and a vacation...
Dates: 1960-1992

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

Lyle Speelman Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2006-10-18
Content Description

The Lyle Speelman Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Collection is a small collection comprised of correspondence, newsletters, minutes, bulletins, and related materials of the AOPA Seattle Unit, dated 1956-1957.

Original order, as recieved by donor, has been maintained.

Dates: 1956-1957

Patricia Steele-Emerson United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2008-05-08
Contents of the Collection The Patricia Steele-Emerson United Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of materials relating to Steele-Emerson's thirty-three year career as a flight attendant with United Airlines (UAL), 1970-2003. The bulk of the collection is textual materials with a small amount of photographs, four videocassettes and one audiocassette. The collection contains assorted UAL documents, including employee records for Steele-Emerson; instructional, informational, and policy booklets,...
Dates: 1969-2003

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photographic prints 9
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newsletters 4
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airline maps 3
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decals 3
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Barnstorming 2
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Inventions 2
Mexico 2
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World War, 1939-1945 2
advertisements 2
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awards 2
balance sheets 2
boarding passes 2
cartoons (humorous images) 2
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poetry 2
press kits 2
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publications (documents) 2
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transportation timetables 2
8mm (photographic film size) 1
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Aeronautics, Commercial 1
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African Americans 1
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Air pilots, Military 1
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Bangkok (Thailand) 1
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Pan American World Airways, Inc 4
United Airlines 4
United States. Air Force 3
Air Line Pilots Association 2
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 2
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United States. Navy 2
Aero Club of America 1
Aero Industries Corporation 1
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association 1
Airservices Company Ltd. 1
Alaska Airlines 1
Allied Engineering Corporation 1
Allied International Company 1
Association of Flight Attendants (U.S.) 1
Boeing 1
Boeing Air Transport 1
Boeing Company 1
Bohrer, Walt 1
Brell, Carl D. 1
Bristol Aeronautics Corporation 1
Butler Aircraft Company 1
Butler National Corporation 1
Byron, Arthur Wayne, 1933-2009 1
Cascade Airways 1
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 1
China Airmotive Company Fed. Inc. 1
China National Aviation Corporation 1
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 1
Consolidated Trading Company, Limited 1
Delta Air Lines 1
Denver International Airport 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
Eurasia Aviation Corporation 1
Fairchild 1
Fiji Airways 1
Flying Tiger Line 1
Fokker 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Fuchs, Alice S., 1917-2012 1
General Airplanes Corporation 1
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 1
Halsmer, Joseph L., 1914- 1
Hill, David O. 1
Horizon Air 1
Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976 1
Jackson, Richard M. 1
Jeppesen, Elrey B. (Elrey Borge), 1907-1996 1
Jeppesen, Nadine A. (Liscomb), 1914-1996 1
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
Kull, G. James 1
LeBoutillier, Oliver C. 1
Lear, Moya Olsen, 1915-2001 1
Lewis, Harold Turner "Slim" 1
Lyons, Jean Marie (Granfield) 1
Martin, August H. (1919-1968) 1
McCaw, Bruce R., 1946- 1
McMullen, Janet Sigurdson 1
Mortenson, Tina 1
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 1
Norden, Arthur V. 1
Norden, Raymond A. 1
North American 1
Northeast Airlines, Inc 1
OX-5 Aviation Pioneers (Organization) 1
Ox-5 Club of America 1
Pacific Northern Airlines 1
Patterson, Alan Lonsdale, 1900-1991 1
Patterson, William A. (William Allan), 1899-1980 1
Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958 1
Quiet Birdmen 1
Rankin School of Flying 1
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 1
Red Aerea Mexicana, S.A. 1
Republic of China Air Force 1
Ryan Aeronautical Company 1
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 1
Saud, Faisal bin Salman 1
Seaboard World Airlines 1
Seversky 1
Sirikit, Queen, consort of Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, 1932- 1
Smith, Joan (Merriam), 1937-1965 1
Steele-Emerson, Patricia 1
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 1
Stimpson, Steve A. 1
Trout, Evelyn, 1906-2003 1
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970 1
United Aircraft Corporation 1
United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Army. Air Service 1
United States. Civil Aeronautics Board 1
United States. Naval Flight Demonstration Squadron 1
Varney Air Lines 1
Verger, Peggy Eckert 1
Volkman, A. Willard 1
Waco Aircraft Company 1
Waterhouse, W. J. 1
Western Air Express Corporation 1
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