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Air pilots

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 93 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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

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

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

Jones, Roy Franklin, 1893-1974

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1893 - 1974

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

Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974

 Person
Dates: Existence: 1902 - 1974

McMurray, Henry "Sandy" -- oral history interview, 2020 February 27

 File
Scope and Contents Pilot Henry Sanford “Sandy” McMurray is interviewed about his military and commercial flying careers. He discusses his service with the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, including his flight training with the Civilian Pilot Training Program, his service with the 305th Bombardment Group in the European Theater, and his service with the Air Transport Command in the Pacific Theater. He then shares highlights from his time as a commercial pilot for ONAT (Orvis Nelson Air Transport) and...
Dates: 2020 February 27

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