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:
Roy and Margaret Thrush Commercial Airlines Collection
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
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Kenneth D. Wallace World War II Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2012-03-29
Overview
The Kenneth D. Wallace World War II Collection is comprised of textual and photographic materials primarily relating to Kenneth D. Wallace's military career as a pilot during World War II circa 1940s.
Dates:
circa 1940-1945, 2010
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Rita M. (Davoly) Webster WASP Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-05-01
Contents of the Collection
The Rita M. (Davoly) Webster WASP Collection is a small collection of mainly textual materials that pertains to Rita Davoly's World War II WASP career. The bulk of the materials is contemporaneous with her 1943-1944 service, although a small amount of items is retrospective in nature.World War II-era materials include Davoly's WASP military service records, identification cards, United States Army Air Forces diploma, a photocopy of the WASP songbook and General Hap Arnold's...
Dates:
1941-2010
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Ron Weisberg Elmer G. Cross photographs collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2018-10-01-A
Contents of the Collection
This small collection contains four (4) black-and-white photographs of Elmer Cross and relates to his airmail pilot career for Pitcairn Aviation during 1928. Each of the photographs are 8x10" and include information on the reverse. One photograph shows Cross seated in a partially obscured unidentified aircraft with another man standing next to the U.S. Mail plane. A handwritten caption on the reverse reads "Elmer G. Cross, 6/11/28, as he joins Pitcairn Aviation to fly U.S. mail."...
Dates:
1928
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Howard Wellman Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2012-03-07
Contents of the Collection
The Howard Wellman Collection pertains to the military and commercial airline pilot career of Howard Eugene "Brick" Wellman. The collection contains materials gathered and collected by Wellman over his nearly 40-year aviation career, twenty-nine years of which were completed overseas serving as a pilot for Iran Air and Pacific Overseas Airlines. The collection includes photographs, certificates, correspondence, personnel records, an illustration of Wellman, airline ephemera and textual...
Dates:
1930-1995
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1988-06-01-A
Contents of the Collection
The Catherine Wingfield Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection comprised of materials relating to Wingfield’s career as a flight attendant for American Airlines in the late 1930s. The collection includes one photographic portrait (a later reprint of a colorized photograph) of Wingfield in uniform; two logbooks from her routes as a flight attendant, dated 1936-1937 and 1939-1940; and four films. The privately shot films are from 1939 and the early 1940s and contain scenes of...
Dates:
1936-1940s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Frank R. Yager Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2018-07-24
Content Description
The Frank R. Yager Collection consists of items documenting Yager's career as an airmail pilot. Included are three logbooks, his pilot's licenses and certificates, and 14 photographs. The photographs consist of both snapshots and formal group portraits as well as some views of airmail planes. There are few identifications with the photographs, but also depicted are Lee Patterson, Jack Knight, and C.F. Egge. Additionally, there are photocopies of other images. There is one folder of...
Dates:
1918-1946, 1994
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Kimm, Joseph E. -- oral history interview, 2013 May 31
File
Interview Summary
Pilot Joseph E. Kimm is interviewed about his decade-spanning aviation career. He discusses his early experiences as a flight steward on Ford Trimotor aircraft, and his time as a copilot and pilot for Northwest Airways (later Northwest Airlines), spanning the 1930s to the 1970s. He also touches on his military service during World War II with Air Transport Command, U.S. Army Air Corps. Other topics discussed include his work building aircraft models, his experiences with various aircraft,...
Dates:
2013 May 31
Lacy, Clay (Part 1) - 2017-06-22, 2017
Item
Summary
Table of Contents: The Lear behind -- Changed travel for the business traveler -- Hollywood travelers -- November 464 Charlie Lima -- Aircraft model numbers -- Why was the Lear special? -- The movies and Astrovision -- Donate a Lear to The Museum of Flight -- Paintings on-board -- Purchase your first Lear -- Comfort an issue? -- Price point -- Revisit the change of industry’s thinking -- The FBO advantage -- Like a military jet -- Bill Lear was a genius -- The Lear Fan.
Dates:
2017
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