Air pilots
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:
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
William S. Zoller Pilot Collection
Collection — Box Assorted oversize box 12, oversize: folder 1
Identifier: 2025-11-11
Contents of the Collection
The William S. Zoller Pilot Collection is comprised of five Northwest Airlines strike posters. Two posters have 14 pilot signatures, including Zoller's. The posters were used by the pilots, likely during the August 1998 strike against NWA. The posters read: "Northwest pilots on strike" in red text and include the Air Line Pilots Association logo in blue beneath the words. The posters are 15x20-inches and have a white background with blue border.
Dates:
circa 1998
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