Douglas DC-3 Family
Subject
Subject Source: Nasm
Scope Note: Aircraft
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Lorraine L. (Coccio) Ditsworth Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2009-02-20
Contents of the Collection
The Lorraine L. (Coccio) Ditsworth Western Airlines Flight Attendant Collection is comprised of textual materials and photographs collected by Ditsworth during her 1953-1956 service as a Western Airlines (WA) flight attendant.The textual materials include three logs which contain notes about Ditsworth's flights, 1953-1956; several "Orchid letters" (complimentary letters) about Ditsworth and her service to passengers; assorted documents related to her employment with...
Dates:
1951-1956
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Gordon E. Glattenberg Aviation Photograph Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2025-04-28-A
Content Description
The Gordon E. Glattenberg Aviation Photograph Collection is a collection of 2,525 35mm photographic slides and more than 2,500 digital images primarily of commercial aircraft taken by Glattenberg from roughly 1958-2002.The bulk of the collection consists of images depicting commercial airliners. Most of these images show aicraft at airports, either at gates, on tarmacs, taking off or landing, but mixed among these are some images of mechanics working on or refueling planes,...
Dates:
circa 1958-2002
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2014-09-12
Overview
John Wegg is best known as the founder and editor-in-chief of Airliners and Airways magazines, as well as contributor to other publications and author of 12 books on aviation history, airlines, and aircraft manufacturers. The John Wegg Commercial Airlines Collection consists of about 2.7 cubic feet of material such as printed ephemera, photographs, documents, and other materials pertaining to the Wegg's aviation journalism...
Dates:
1929-2004; Majority of material found within circa 1950s-1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives