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Robert Bryant Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2019-06-17
Content Description The Robert Bryant Collection is a small collection consisting of textual and visual materials related to Bryant's career working for Boeing, Northrop, Lear Fan and other aviation companies. The materials are organized by company and format. Related to Boeing, the collection includes a request for proposal on systems and equipment for the Supersonic Transport Program, a 700-series decal, and a handbook on advanced composites. Materials related to Lear Fan include administrative...
Dates: 1946-1995

Walter E. Burnham Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-02-27-A
Content Description The Walter E. Burnham Collection consists of personal and professional papers of Burnham, who was Manager of Manufacturing Research at the Boeing Company, Wichita Division in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection is organized into two series: Personal and Professional. The personal series includes a small amount of correspondence but primarily consists of documents relating to his education and work in aeronautical engineering at Tri-State College in Angola, Indiana in the early...
Dates: circa 1929 to 1964

The John R. Buschmann Boeing B-29 Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-11-19
Abstract

Lt. Col. John R. Buschmann compiled this information about the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, known as "T-Square 54," through personal research and interviews with former crew members. In 2015 these materials, including a short history of the plane written by Lt. Col. Buschmann, were donated to the Museum of Flight in an effort to keep the physical plane and its history housed in one location.

Dates: 1944-1991

Herman Butler World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1985-12-27-A
Abstract

Herman Butler, originally of Belleville, Washington, served as a pilot during World War I and after with the U.S.A. School of Aerial Photography at Langley Field. The collection contains materials relating to the Butler's wartime and postwar service.

Dates: circa 1917-1940s; Majority of material found within 1917-1920

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

Charles Lindbergh Letter to Robert Goddard

 Collection — Box: Assorted rare collections, Box 1, Folder: 2011-06-06 folder 2
Identifier: 2011-06-06-2
Contents of the Collection This collection consists of a single item: a two-page typed letter written by Charles Lindbergh to Dr. Robert Goddard, dated December 15, 1938. In the letter Lindbergh makes the first suggestion for the military uses of the rocket. He states: "When the opportunity arises, I shall take this matter up with our own military people because I believe we should explore the military possibilities of the rocket. As you say, it is often difficult to start interest in such a radical development in its...
Dates: 1938 December 15

Emile Chourré and Chourré Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-06-17
Abstract

The Emile Chourré and Chourré Family Papers is comprised of documents and scrapbooks, photographic prints and photograph albums, and assorted ephemera primarily pertaining to the life and military career of Lieutenant Commander Emile Chourré (1894-1938). Major topics include Chourré's military service, especially while stationed in Coco Solo, Panama; his service as a U.S. Naval announcer for the 1929-1931 and 1933-1934 National Air Races; and family (immediate and extended) photographs.

Dates: 1889-1988; Majority of material found within 1920s-1950s

Robert Coats Fighter Ace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-08-02
Contents of the Collection The Robert Coats Fighter Ace Collection consists primarily of military documents relating to the World War II service of Captain Robert Charles Coats. Although Coats served in the United States Navy from 1940 to 1971, the items in this collection are from the years 1940-1951.Included in the collection is Coats' military personnel documents, including two black-and-white photographs of Coats as an aviation cadet. Additional materials consist of his ensign commission, fitness...
Dates: 1940-1951

Clarke C. Cole Alaska Airlines Pilot Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2023-10-24
Content Description The Clarke C. Cole Alaska Airlines Pilot Collection is a small collection of materials related to Cole’s personal family life, service in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and his career as a pilot with Alaska Airlines from 1947-1971. The materials date from 1903-1966 and are predominantly comprised of photographs, with a small amount of textual materials. The textual component of the collection includes clippings, correspondence from Cole to his wife, Blanche K. Cole,...
Dates: 1903-1966

Charles B. D. Collyer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2014-00-00-84
Abstract

Charles B. D. Collyer (1896-1928) enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps during World War I. After the war Collyer broke the record for circumnavigation of the globe. On the return trip, Collyer died attempting to break his own record. The collection contains correspondence about naming an airfield in his honor as well as a photograph and drawing of Collyer.

Dates: 1924-1941

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United States. Naval Reserve 5
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 4
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 4
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 4
Douglas Aircraft Company 4
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 4
North American 4
Northwest Airlines Corporation 4
Project Apollo (U.S.) 4
Showalter, N.D. (Noah David), 1925-2012 4
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970 4
United States. Army 4
United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 4
Alaska Airlines 3
Boeing Company. Wichita Division 3
Curtiss, Glenn Hammond, 1878-1930 3
Douglas, Donald Wills, Sr., 1892-1981 3
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Gates Learjet Corporation (1969-1987) 3
Great Britain. Royal Air Force 3
Hughes, Howard, 1905-1976 3
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 3
Lockheed 3
Museum of Flight (Seattle, Wash.) 3
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Pangborn, Clyde Edward, approximately 1893-1958 3
Rankin School of Flying 3
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 3
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 3
Townsend, Guy M., 1920-2011 3
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 5th 3
Wells, Edward C., 1910-1986 3
Wright, Orville, 1871-1948 3
14th Air Force Association (U.S.). Flying Tigers 2
Aero Club of America 2
All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race, Inc. 2
Allen, Edmund Turney, 1896-1943 2
American Fighter Aces Association 2
Apollo 1 (Spacecraft) 2
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Apollo 13 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 14 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 15 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 16 (Spacecraft) 2
Apollo 17 (Spacecraft) 2
Archibald, Norman S., 1894-1975 2
Beall, Wellwood Edmeston, 1906-1978 2
Boeing Air Transport 2
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 2
Boeing, Bill, Jr., 1922-2015 2
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 2
Braniff Airways 2
Böing, Wilhelm, 1846–1890 2
Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force 2
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 2
China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group 2
Cochran, Jacqueline, 1906-1980 2
Curtiss 2
Dallas Love Field 2
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston" (#3) 2
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Chicago" (#2) 2
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "New Orleans" (#4) 2
Draper, Hazel Archibald, 1891-1973 2
Experimental Aircraft Association 2
Fornasero, John B., 1904-1967 2
Garrett AiResearch 2
Hennings, Tandy Cook 2
Horizon Air 2
Hubbard, Edward, 1889-1928 2
Jeppesen, Elrey B. (Elrey Borge), 1907-1996 2
John F. Kennedy Space Center 2
Kelly Field (Tex.) 2
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 2
King County International Airport 2
Lear, Moya Olsen, 1915-2001 2
Los Angeles International Airport 2
Lunar Orbiter (Artificial satellite) 2
Marsalis, Frances Harrell, d. 1934 2
Moore Field (Tex.) 2
National Aeronautic Association (U.S.) 2
National Championship Air Races 2
Neale, Robert H., 1914-1994 2
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