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Russian Transpolar Flight Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-12-23
Abstract

The Russian Transpolar Flight Collection primarily documents the June 1937 transpolar flight by Russian aviators Valery Chkalov, Georgii Baidukov, and V. Belydakov with photographs, clippings, audio-visual materials, and various textual materials. It also features a small amount of material about the July 1937 transpolar flight by Russian aviators M. Gromov, Sergei Danilin, and Andrei Yumashev, as well as general Russia-related research materials.

Dates: 1937-2012

John Schafer World War II Collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 2005-01-15
Contents of the Collection The John Schafer World War II Collection is primarily original newspapers from the World War II era, but also includes a small amount of additional textual materials and one black-and-white photograph. It is unknown if John Schafer served during World War II, if he collected the materials, or they were given to him. The fourteen newspapers date from January 29, 1939 to October 15, 1945 and include issues from the Seattle Daily Times, ...
Dates: 1939-1945

Robert Short Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1991-01-07
Abstract

Robert McCawley Short (1904-1932) was born in Steilacoom, Washington and worked in China as chief instructor at China's School for Military Air Tactics from 1931-1932. The collection contains licenses, financial documents, correspondence, photographs, ephemera, biographical materials, and clippings related to Short's brief time in China. Additionally, the collection has photographs, ephemera, and correspondence related to the identification and preservation of his memorial.

Dates: 1932-1987

Anne and Dottie Simpson Collection

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2016-08-24
Content Description This small collection consists of materials related to Dorothy "Dottie" Lewis Simpson's flying career and some commercial airline ephemera. It is unclear if Dottie or her daughter Anne collected the ephemera. Material documenting Dottie Simpson includes her U.S. Army Air Corps wallet with her private pilot's license, medical certificate, and CAA identity card. Her pilot's flight log is also included and primarily covers 1944-1946 but has notations dating as late as 1997. The commercial...
Dates: 1944-1997

Edward I. Sproull Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 2011-03-07
Abstract

The collection contains a World War I era scrapbook photograph album assembled by Edward I. Sproull (1897-1956) while in training at Ohio State University and subsequently serving as a pilot with the A.E.F. and the American Squadron of the French Military Air Force in France.

Dates: circa 1915-1919

Dorothy (Hester) Stenzel Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-09-26
Abstract

Dorothy (Hester) Stenzel (1910-1991) was born in Ardenwald, Oregon and learned to fly in the late 1920s. Stenzel then gained fame for stunt flying and broke several records through the mid-1930s. The collection contains seven scrapbooks and assorted textual materials and photographs that document Stenzel's career as one of the first female stunt pilots.

Dates: circa 1928-1991

Leon Swietlikowski World War II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-12-01
Abstract

Leon Swietlikowski (1912-1984) was born in Wilno, Poland and served in the Polish Air Force, as well as the Polish squadrons attached to the French Air Force and Royal Air Force, during World War II. The collection includes log books, personnel documents, and photographs of Leon Swietlikowski and his wife, Bette.

Dates: 1941-1948, 1968

James H. Taylor, Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-00-00-1
Abstract

Archival materials relating to the missions of the United States Army Air Forces 498th Bombardment Group in 1944-45. The Museum of Flight's Boeing B-29 Superfortress was of this group and material in this collection reflect the activities of the aircraft during that time period. Many of the charts are annotated for specific missions and some contain identified targets.

Dates: 1943-2013; Majority of material found within 1943-1945

Donald D. Viele Lunar Orbiter Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2017-11-06
Abstract

Donald Viele was a Systems Engingeer with Boeing who worked with NASA on the Lunar Orbiter Program (1964-1967). This collection contains documents and photographs collected and authored by Viele during his time on the Lunar Orbiter team.

There is also some documentation relating to Viele's work with the Minuteman Missile program.

Dates: 1950-2016; Majority of material found within 1960-1970

Lindell and Dianne Vinson Commercial Airline Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-09-20
Abstract Lindell Ray Vinson (1938-2005) was a United States Naval aviator and a commercial airline pilot. Dianne (Shannon) Vinson (1940-2006) worked for Braniff Airways, likely as a flight attendant. The collection primarily contains textual materials, six (6) photographs, and one (1) videocassette related to the specific airlines that the Vinsons worked for over their careers, including US Airways, Piedmont Airlines, and Braniff Airways. The bulk of the material is from 1984-1998, though...
Dates: circa 1960-1998; Majority of material found within 1984-1998

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press kits 3
press releases 3
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16mm (photographic film size) 2
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United States. Army. Forces in China-Burma-India Theater 3
Air Line Pilots Association 2
Bong, Richard Ira, 1920-1945 2
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 2
Jeppesen, Elrey B. (Elrey Borge), 1907-1996 2
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 2
National Championship Air Races 2
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 2
Post, Wiley, 1898-1935 2
Rankin School of Flying 2
Rankin, John Gilbert "Tex", 1894-1947 2
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 2
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970 2
United States. Army 2
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th 2
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces 2
United States. Civil Aeronautics Administration 2
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2
Varney Air Lines 2
Adams, Bruce A. 1
Adams, George E., Sr., 1899-1963 1
Adams, George Earl, Jr., 1923-1996 1
Akron (Airship) 1
Albright, Sydney J. 1
Amendola, John 1
American Aviation Historical Society 1
American Red Cross 1
Apollo Soyuz Test Project 1
Arkansas (Battleship) 1
Army Air Forces Pilot School (Marfa Army Air Field, Tex.) 1
Atcherley, Richard Llewellyn Roger 1
Attilio Orazio de Bernardi, Mario Bernardo, 1893-1959 1
Baidukov, G. (Georgii), 1907-1994 1
Barker, Leland 1
Barrett Airways 1
Bayles, Lowell Richard 1
Belov, Peter S. 1
Belyakov, V. V. (Vladimir Viktorovich), 1955- 1
Boeing 1
Boeing Air Transport 1
Boeing School of Aeronautics (Oakland, Calif.) 1
Boeing, Bertha Marie (Potter Paschall), 1891-1977 1
Boeing, Bill, Jr., 1922-2015 1
Boeing, William Edward, 1881-1956 1
Bohrer, Walt 1
Brand, Vance 1
Braniff Airways 1
British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines 1
Broome, G. Calvin 1
Browning, Frank D., 1922-2016 1
Brummer, E.A. 1
Buck, George T. 1
Bundick, W.T. 1
Butler Aircraft Company 1
Butler National Corporation 1
Butler, Sherwood 1
Cady, Dorothy 1
Cady, Vernon 1
Cally Curtis Company 1
Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force 1
Carlson, Ed D. "Skeeter" 1
Carroll, John D. 1
Chenango (Ship) 1
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003 1
Chkalov, Valerii Pavlovich, 1904-1938 1
Chourre (ARV-1) 1
Chourré, Catherine (Davis), 1894-1985 1
Chourré, Ceci 1
Chourré, Clinton Emile, 1963- 1
Chourré, Emile, 1894-1938 1
Chourré, Jack Mausegne, 1930-2014 1
Chourré, Jeanne Louise, 1921-2013 1
Chourré, Karen Jean (Condon) 1
Church, Roy T., 1944-2021 1
Cole, Linda G. 1
Cuddeback, Leon D. "Lee", 1898-1984 1
Curtis, Cally 1
Danilin, Sergei 1
Davis, Carrie (Cornell), 1866-1958 1
Davis, Jefferson Lee, 1862-1939 1
Denver International Airport 1
Donlan, Charles J. 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Drummond-Hay, Grace Marguerite 1
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
Eimer, Manfred 1
Elder, Ruth, 1902-1977 1
Elder, Theodore H. 1
Eldrenkamp, L.B. 1
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