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Curtiss JN-4D Jenny

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Nasm
Scope Note: Aircraft

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, 1917-1919, undated

 File — Box 19, Folder: 39
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Photographic Prints and Negatives series documents many aircraft, people and organizations affiliated with the Curtiss-Wright Company and its predecessor companies, spanning the early 1900s through 1960 with the bulk of items from the 1930s-1940s. While Series V. contains 14 photographic prints and Series VII. contains 263 prints and 1 negative, the bulk of visual imagery can be found in this series, with 3,503 photographic prints, 462 negatives, and 1 photomechanical print among these...
Dates: 1917-1919, undated
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / Curtiss-Wright Corporation Records / Series VIII. Photographic Prints and Negatives / Subseries A. Aircraft -- Curtiss-Wright affiliated companies / Curtiss

[Curtiss JN-4D Jenny biplane], 1917 June 24

 Item — Box Glass plates box 4, item: 211
Scope and Contents From the Series: With more than 250 cubic feet of material, including prints, negatives, transparencies and scrapbooks, the photographic component of the collection makes up the vast majority of the collection and is an incredible resource of documentary images of aircraft. The series is subdivided into five subseries: aircraft files, subject files, glass plates, scrapbooks and albums, and the Sommerich collection. The aircraft files are then subdivided by format: prints,...
Dates: 1917 June 24
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers / Series I. Photographs / Subseries C. Glass Plates

"Curtiss JN-4D taking off", circa 1910s-1930s

 Item — Box Glass plates box 3, item: 112
Scope and Contents From the Series: With more than 250 cubic feet of material, including prints, negatives, transparencies and scrapbooks, the photographic component of the collection makes up the vast majority of the collection and is an incredible resource of documentary images of aircraft. The series is subdivided into five subseries: aircraft files, subject files, glass plates, scrapbooks and albums, and the Sommerich collection. The aircraft files are then subdivided by format: prints,...
Dates: circa 1910s-1930s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives / Peter M. Bowers Photograph Collection and Papers / Series I. Photographs / Subseries C. Glass Plates

The Becvar Family Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1992-07-24
Abstract

George Becvar (1909-1990) was born in Denver, Colorado and with his brothers Lou (1908-1984) and Chuck (1904-1986) started Kent Flying Service which ran from approximately 1927-1930 in Kent, Washington. The collection consists of the pilot logbook for George Becvar and a scrapbook that primarily covers George Becvar's 1927-1931 flying career.

Dates: 1927-1990
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Hamilton Coolidge World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2000-10-16-101
Abstract

Hamilton "Ham" Coolidge (1895-1918) was one of many young men from wealthy New England families who enlisted during World War I. The collection contains materials related to Captain Coolidge's service a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Service 94th Aero Squadron. Coolidge achieved Ace status, was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, and was killed in action.

Dates: circa 1917-1925
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Charles W. Drew World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2007-02-17
Abstract

Charles Wallace Drew (1896-1979) served as a pilot with the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I, and later worked as an airport engineer. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, and other materials relating to Drew's wartime experience.

Dates: 1902-1979; Majority of material found within 1917-1925
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Halden H. Emrick Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1989-02-16
Abstract

The collection contains materials relating to Halden H. Emrick's personal life and varied aviation career as a pilot's instructor during World War I, chief pilot for Curtiss-Wright and other aircraft companies, and a stunt pilot during the heyday of barnstorming in the 1920s and 1930s.

Dates: circa 1914-1975; Majority of material found within 1920-1949
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Harold E. Hartney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-07-03
Abstract Harold E. Hartney (1888-1945) rose through the ranks of the Canadian Army to become the Commander of the U.S. Air Service's 27th Aero Squadron in France during World War I. Credited as an ace and recipient of numerous military awards, after the war Hartney went on to train military pilots, advise on air safety, and serve again in World War II. The collection contains photographs, correspondence, clippings, and paper ephemera relating to Hartney's World War and interwar careers, as well as...
Dates: circa 1914-1980s; Majority of material found within 1914-1945
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Norman E. Horn World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2006-03-13
Abstract

The collection contains photographs of Curtiss Jennys at Love Field, Texas flown by Norman E. Horn in his training as a pilot during World War I.

Dates: circa 1917-1919
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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