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Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2003-12-03
Contents of the Collection
The collection contains textual materials related to the military service of Alfred G. Thompson, who served as a B-25 pilot during World War II. Materials include training documents and worksheets, military orders and ephemera, such as an enlisted men's pass and pay envelope, and aircraft arrival reports. There are a photograph album, miltary personnel files, many loose photographs and correspondences. Also included are pilot logs for Thompson as well as a Pilot Rating Book for Clare Rupert...
Dates:
1941-1944
Collection
Identifier: 2019-09-10
Contents of the Collection
The Roy and Margaret Thrush Commercial Aviation Collection is a small collection that focuses mainly on Roy Thrush's 20-year career as a commercial pilot for TWA with a much smaller focus on his brief time at Lufthansa. The bulk of the collection is textual documents, including pilot logs; employee documents, including correspondence, memos, and schedules; membership cards; and a partial TWA pilot's manual. There are also 16 photographs, most of which depict aircraft. Identified aircraft...
Dates:
1937-1970; Majority of material found within 1940s-1950s
Collection
Identifier: 1998-08-10
Abstract
Douglas I. Tilden worked on the restoration of the Museum of Flight's Lunar Roving Vehicle. A crew of 18 volunteers worked on the restoration project from about 1993-1995. The materials in the collections were used for that restoration project.
Dates:
circa 1970-1990s; Majority of material found within 1970-1971
Collection
Identifier: 2016-05-17
Contents of the Collection
This small collection holds two appoinment certificates for George Prior Townsend Jr., reflecting his engineering career. One certificate is for Townsend's appointment to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lubrication and Wear Subcommittee. Dated January 1, 1952, it is signed by Chairman J.C. Hunsaker and Executive Secretary John F. Victory. It included a label on the verso of its original frame, "BECK ART SHOP, House of Cards, Denver 2 Colo,.," as well as...
Dates:
1952, 1959
Collection — Box: Assorted oversize box 20, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2007-06-26
Contents of the Collection
Larry Trollen Collection of Heritage of the Air Lithographs is a set of 11x14" lithographs issued by the Leach Corporation, circa late 1950s. The lithographs depict various aircraft and include a printed caption providing context. There are also three (3) undated two-view information sheets with drawings (side and an isometric) of the Nieuport 17C.1 Scout, the S.E.5 and 5a, and the Fokker DR.1 Triplane.
Dates:
1950s-1960s
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1987-06-23-1
Content Description
The Tupolev ANT-4 model presentation photographs consist of three 3.5x5" color snapshots of the presentation of a model Tupolev ANT-4 to David Bass, General Manager of Boeing of Portland, by Aviation General Colonel Vasily Reshetnikov on June 23, 1987. The model is a replica of the ANT-4 aircraft that was flown to New York in October 1929. In addition to Bass and Reshetnikov, Valery Kubasov is present in the photos along with other unidentified men, presumably Boeing employees.
Dates:
1987 June 23
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2019-00-00-158
Contents of the Collection
This small collection conists of one issue of TV Guide from July 19, 1969. The cover of the magazine advertises "the first live telecast from the moon." An 8-page article in the magazine, "Live from the Moon" describes the moon landing event as "TV's most special special."
Dates:
1969 July 19
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2017-03-23
Contents of the Collection
The Josef Ulsamer World War II Collection consists of five photographs featuring German Luftwaffe Lieutenant Josef Ulsamer in uniform and with his spouse, most likely taken in Kiel, Germany circa 1930s-1940s. One of the photos features a Junkers Ju-88 aircraft with an exterior view. Another photograph depicts an interior view of an aircraft, likely a Heinkel, with an airman, possibly Ulsamer, in defensive position below the cockpit. While the aircraft photographs do not have any location...
Dates:
Circa 1930s-1940s
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 2017-00-00-4
Content Description
The United Air Lines Hawaiian Mainliner Passenger List is a small collection consisting of a single item: a passenger list for United Air Lines' inaugural flight of the Hawaiian Mainliner Stratocruiser dated January 15, 1950. There are 54 passengers listed as well as the Cpatain R.L. Wagner, Stewardesses Phyllis Chase and Hazle Spencer and Steward CLement Keliikipi.
Dates:
1950 January 15
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1985-07-28-A
Contents of the Collection
The collection consists a United Air Lines "Air Atlas," June 1961 edition, that featured the airline's service routes over a map of the United States. Atlas also includes facts about the formation of the landscape that passengers may see from the aircraft.
Dates:
1961 June
