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certificates

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents giving authoritative recognition of a fact, qualification, or promise.

Found in 108 Collections and/or Records:

Tami Dias Commercial Airlines Collection

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-07-05
Contents of the Collection The Tami Dias Commercial Airlines Collection is a small collection of textual materials primarily related to Sabena and Trans World Airlines (TWA), 1978-1982. It includes a 1978 certificate for Sabena's inaugural flight between Atlanta and Brussels, Sabena instructional documents, "Terms and Definitions Relative to the Jet," and "Station Training for the Boeing 707-131," and a 1982 TWA interoffice correspondence about the first meeting of the Clerical Task Force. Also present is a JFK...
Dates: 1978-1982

Fred Thibodeaux Flying Fortress School Training Certificate

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2012-06-20
Content Description

The Fred Thibodeaux Flying Fortress School Training Certificate is a small collection consisting of the certification of completion of technical aircraft training at the Boeing Flying Fortress School by Sgt. Fred Thibodeaux dated September 17, 1943. The certificate is accompanied by a grade report and an envelope with Thibodeaux's name inscribed in calligraphy.

Dates: 1943

Alfred G. Thompson World War II Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2003-12-03
Contents of the Collection The collection contains textual materials related to the military service of Alfred G. Thompson, who served as a B-25 pilot during World War II. Materials include training documents and worksheets, military orders and ephemera, such as an enlisted men's pass and pay envelope, and aircraft arrival reports. There are a photograph album, miltary personnel files, many loose photographs and correspondences. Also included are pilot logs for Thompson as well as a Pilot Rating Book for Clare Rupert...
Dates: 1941-1944

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

George Prior Townsend Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2016-05-17
Contents of the Collection This small collection holds two appoinment certificates for George Prior Townsend Jr., reflecting his engineering career. One certificate is for Townsend's appointment to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) Lubrication and Wear Subcommittee. Dated January 1, 1952, it is signed by Chairman J.C. Hunsaker and Executive Secretary John F. Victory. It included a label on the verso of its original frame, "BECK ART SHOP, House of Cards, Denver 2 Colo,.," as well as...
Dates: 1952, 1959

Lindell and Dianne Vinson Commercial Airline Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-09-20
Abstract Lindell Ray Vinson (1938-2005) was a United States Naval aviator and a commercial airline pilot. Dianne (Shannon) Vinson (1940-2006) worked for Braniff Airways, likely as a flight attendant. The collection primarily contains textual materials, six (6) photographs, and one (1) videocassette related to the specific airlines that the Vinsons worked for over their careers, including US Airways, Piedmont Airlines, and Braniff Airways. The bulk of the material is from 1984-1998, though...
Dates: circa 1960-1998; Majority of material found within 1984-1998

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

Samuel Lewis "Lew" Wallick Boeing Test Pilot Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2024-05-08
Overview The Samuel Lewis "Lew" Wallick Boeing Test Pilot Collection documents the career and personal life of test pilot Lew Wallick. The collection contains both visual and textual materials that date from 1928 to 2018, with the bulk from 1954 to 1984. These documents bring to light Wallick’s work testing and demonstrating aircraft for the Boeing Company, with an emphasis on his contributions to Boeing's Model 700 commercial jetliner series. Also present are records on his involvement in the P-12...
Dates: 1928-2018

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

John Sylvester Wheelwright World War I Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2012-10-30
Abstract

The collection consists of materials related to the World War I career of John "Jack" Sylvester Wheelwright (1885-1962), who was a textile designer, engineer and naval commander and served on airships in the Royal Naval Air Service.

Dates: circa 1907-1943; Majority of material found within 1914-1918

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