Air pilots
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
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 One
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
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
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 One
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 One
Identifier: 2018-07-04
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
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