Aeronautics, Commercial
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Air service ; Air transport ; Air transportation industry ; Air transportation system ; Civil aeronautics ; Civil aviation ; Commercial aeronautics ; Commercial aviation
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Air West and Hughes Airwest Photographs and Slides
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1987-09-22-F
Contents of the Collection
The Air West and Hughes Airwest Photographs and Slides contains 48 photographic prints and and 310 color slides related to Air West and Hughes Airwest airlines, respectively. The materials date to circa 1970s-1990s and are publicity and/or advertisement photographs. The color slides form the bulk of the collection and depict Hughes Airwest flight attendants in their uniforms, the majority of which are yellow and blue, although other styles are present. The flight attendants are...
Dates:
circa 1970s-1990s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Commercial Airlines Collection (Part 1, A-F)
Collection
Identifier: 2018-00-00-23-1
Abstract
The Commercial Airlines Collection is an artificial collection comprised of textual, visual, and audiovisual materials of commercial airlines from around the world, 1910s-2020s.
Dates:
1910s-2020s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Barbara Elizabeth (Walter) King Pan Am Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2024-07-31
Contents of the Collection
The Barbara Elizabeth (Walter) King Pan Am Flight Attendant Collection is a small collection that contains textual materials used by Barbara Elizabeth (Walter) King during her 1958-1960 service as a flight attendant for Pan Am. The bulk of the documents are crew schedules and "series pattern" sheets, which include vacation requests. Additional materials touch upon training documents issued by Pan Am, including "Polar Emergency Equipment," "Polar Survival Briefing," and class schedule, among...
Dates:
1958-1960
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Bruce R. McCaw Aviation Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2014-01-15
Abstract
The Bruce R. McCaw Aviation Collection contains textual materials related to McCaw's work with Horizon Air during the early development of the regional airline carrier from 1980 through 1987, as well as assorted material from 1970 to 1997 from McCaw’s professional and personal experience as a pilot.
Dates:
1978-1999
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Northwest Airlines Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2009-07-14-A
Contents of the Collection
The Northwest Airlines Collection consists primarily of company personnel, promotional, and flight service materials produced by Northwest Airlines from 1975 to 2007. The collection contains textual, audiovisual and visual materials. Formats include videocassettes, an audiocassette, slides, and photographs. In addition, there are an assortment of promotional materials, some of which are posters that picture company aircraft and early company logos. There are documents related to personnel...
Dates:
1975-2007
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Pan American World Airways booklet
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1984-08-23-B
Contents of the Collection
This small collection is comprised of a twenty-three page booklet on the history of Pan American Airways, dated 1958. The history begins with Pan American's first flight from Key West to Havana in 1927 and its expansion of routes into the Caribbean, South America, China, and Europe, as well as the introduction of jets into service in 1958. The back of the booklet includes a table of growth in air speed, route miles, passengers, miles flown, and employees between 1927 and 1958.
Dates:
1958
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Cyrille M. Peabody Boeing Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-08-29
Contents of the Collection
The Cyrille M. Peabody Boeing Collection holds original artwork and reference files of Cyrille "Cy" M. Peabody, a Boeing Company employee and designer who worked in various art departments over a 31 1/2 year period in the mid-to-late 20th century. The collection is organized into two series: I. Artwork and II. Reference Files. Series I., Peabody's original art is mostly grouped together within 10 folders (2 boxes), although some individual pieces are found in subject folders. His...
Dates:
circa 1950s-1980s
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
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
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
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