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John Cook Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-07-31
Abstract Born in Scotland, John Cook (1899-) was a mechanic who worked on the engines that powered the Douglas World Cruisers that completed the first circumnavigation of the globe by air. Cook also served in the military for thirty-six years and later was a Quality Control Inspector for the Air Force Aircraft program at Boeing. The collection contains photographs, slides, and textual materials primarily related to his time at Boeing as well as some photographs and documents related to his...
Dates: 1920-1986

Merle M. Coons Fighter Ace Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2002-02-13-1136
Abstract

Colonel Merle Coons (1921-1997) was a United States Air Force fighter pilot, earning ace status during World War II. The collection is a subset of the American Fighter Aces Collection and includes primarily textual materials, such as military orders and records, flight records and a log book, and a scrapbook, as well as a photograph album and a small amount of loose photographs.

Dates: 1942-1997

Lee Embree Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-08-08
Abstract

Lee R. Embree (1915-2008) was born in Iowa, enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1936, and was assigned to the 38th Reconnaisance Squadron as an aerial photographer during World War II. Embree was at Hickam Field, Hawaii during the 1941 Pearl Harbor bombing and took several photographs. The collection contains photographs, textual materials, audiovisual materials, and a scrapbook that relate to Embree's military service and photography as well as his post-war photography activities.

Dates: 1918-2005 (bulk dates 1939-1945)

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

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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Aichi D3A Val (Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber) 1
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Airservices Company Ltd. 1
Allied Engineering Corporation 1
Allied International Company 1
American Fighter Aces Association 1
Arizona (Battleship) 1
Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington, Va.) 1
Ascani, Fred J. (Fred John), 1917-2010 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
Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975 1
China Airmotive Company Fed. Inc. 1
China National Aviation Corporation 1
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 1
Consolidated Aircraft Corp 1
Consolidated Trading Company, Limited 1
Cook, John, 1899- 1
Coons, Lois Clark 1
Coons, Merle M., 1921-1997 1
Danilin, Sergei 1
Denver International Airport 1
Doerflinger, Andy 1
Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Boston" (#3) 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "Chicago" (#2) 1
Douglas World Cruiser (DWC) "New Orleans" (#4) 1
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 1
Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh, Scotland) 1
Embree, Lee 1
Eppright, G. J. 1
Eurasia Aviation Corporation 1
Fiji Airways 1
Flying Tiger Line 1
Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006 1
Fuchs, Alice S., 1917-2012 1
General Airplanes Corporation 1
Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps 1
Gromov, M. (Mikhail), 1899-1985 1
Halsmer, Joseph L., 1914- 1
Hill, David O. 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
Jones, Lucious 1
Kent, Harvey 1
Laudan, Fred P. 1
LeBoutillier, Oliver C. 1
Lear, William P. (William Powell), 1902-1978 1
Lewis, Harold Turner "Slim" 1
Martin, August H. (1919-1968) 1
Mortenson, Tina 1
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964 1
Norden, Arthur V. 1
Norden, Raymond A. 1
North American 1
OX-5 Aviation Pioneers (Organization) 1
Ogden, Henry H., 1900-1986 1
Ox-5 Club of America 1
Pan American World Airways, Inc 1
Patterson, Alan Lonsdale, 1900-1991 1
Patterson, William A. (William Allan), 1899-1980 1
Pearl Harbor Survivors Association 1
Pearson Field (Vancouver, Wash.) 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
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Royal Hawaiian Hotel 1
Ryan Aeronautical Company 1
Ryan NYP "Spirit of St Louis" 1
Ryan, Tubal Claude, 1898-1982 1
Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines) 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
Stenzel, Dorothy (Hester), 1910-1991 1
Stimpson, Steve A. 1
Trans World Airlines 1
Trout, Evelyn, 1906-2003 1
Turner, Roscoe, 1895-1970 1
United Airlines 1
United States. Air Force. Military Airlift Command 1
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