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Air pilots

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Airline pilots; Airplane pilots; Aviators; Pilots, Airplane

Found in 81 Collections and/or Records:

Jim Plant oral interview

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021-09-24
Content Description The Jim Plant oral interview is a small collection consisting of an audio recording and related document of an oral interview conducted by Fred Parkinson with his uncle Jim Plant in August 1996 about Plant's experience as a prisoner of war during World War II. James Plant was a bomber pilot for the Royal Air Force during World War II who was shot down in July 1940 over Germany. He was detained as a prisoner of war for five wars until he was released on May 2, 1945 by the Allies....
Dates: 1996 August
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Robert W. Radoll Early Aviation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1990-10-26
Contents of the Collection The Robert W. Radoll Early Aviation Collection documents the professional and personal life of early aviator and airmail pilot Robert W. Radoll from circa 1920 to 1933. The collection consists of textual material, such as correspondence, clippings, and logbooks, as well as a total of 138 photographs. It is divided into two main series: Professional and Personal.The Professional series has been further divided into subseries: Barnstorming, Northwest...
Dates: 1920-1933
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Florence Ragen Douglas World Cruisers Photograph Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2007-03-29-C
Contents of the Collection The Florence Ragen Douglas World Cruisers Photograph Collection contains a single black-and-white photograph taken in March 1924. The image depicts six of the eight fliers from the first round-the-world flight standing in front of a car: (from left to right) Leigh Wade, Erik H. Nelson, Leslie P. Arnold, Lowell H. Smith, John Harding, Jr., and Henry H. Ogden. Two Douglas World Cruisers are partially visible behind the men. A note on the back of the print identifies the right-hand plane as the...
Dates: 1924 March
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Robert L. Simons Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-05-05-B
Overview

Robert Lewis Simons was a military and commercial pilot in the mid-twentieth century. The Collection is comprised of materials relating to Simons’ career , including log books, military records, photographs, and films.

Dates: 1925-1972; Majority of material found within 1938-1948
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Walt Sobol Photographs and Negatives

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-10-02
Content Description The Walt Sobol Photographs and Negatives is a collection comprised of 2,169 black-and-white photographic prints and 1,193 photographic negatives taken by Sobol during his career in aircraft manufacturing in China, Burma, India and the U.S. from the late 1920s through 1950s. The photographs are a mix of personal images, scenes of daily life in the various places he traveled, and documentation of the aircraft manufacturing industry in Missouri, China and India.The photographs are...
Dates: 1926-1959
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Lyle Speelman Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2006-10-18
Content Description

The Lyle Speelman Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) Collection is a small collection comprised of correspondence, newsletters, minutes, bulletins, and related materials of the AOPA Seattle Unit, dated 1956-1957.

Original order, as recieved by donor, has been maintained.

Dates: 1956-1957
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Steve A. Stimpson Photograph Album

 Collection
Identifier: 1986-03-25
Abstract

Steve A. Stimpson was a manager for Boeing Air Transport in the 1920s-1930s. The collection contains one hundred and fifty-two (152) black-and-white photographs in an unbound photograph album documenting early United Airlines history.

Dates: circa 1920s-1930s
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

Gary Teeter Braniff Airways Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-11-30
Contents of the Collection The Gary Teeter Braniff Airways Collection is a small collection that primarily contains textual materials collected and used by Second Officer (Flight Engineer) Gary Teeter during his 1979-1980 employment with Braniff Airways. The bulk of the collection is employee records, including crew logs, an employee handbook, crew time and pay sheets and insurance booklets. There are also instrumentation training diagrams that depict "overhead panel," "pilots' instrument panel - left, right, center,"...
Dates: 1976-1984
Found in: The Museum of Flight Archives

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