Airlines
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Non-preferred term: Air carriers; Air lines; Air transportation industry; Airline industry; Aviation industry; Scheduled airlines
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Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:
Orville M. MacLaren Pilot Log Books
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 2003-12-30
Content Description
The Orville M. MacLeran Pilot Log Books is a small collection consisting of six logbooks maintained by MacLeran and documenting his career as a flight instructor and commercial pilot from 1937-1963. Four of the logbooks are "pilot's flight logs" and document MacLeran's flights primarily to and from Seattle and Everett, Washington from 1937-1940. The books indicated that MacLeran held commercial and transport licenses with flight instructor ratings. A variety of aircraft are...
Dates:
1937-1963
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
Marilyn Meehan Pan American Flight Attendant Collection
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2024-01-22
Contents of the Collection
The Marilyn Meehan Pan American Flight Attendant Collection holds six color photographs of Marilyn Meehan, a flight attendant with Pan American World Airways from 1973-1980. Two 3x3 inch Polaroid snapshots depict Meehan in her uniform in 1973. Two prints are 5x7 inch photographic portraits that also feature Meehan in her uniform. One of the portraits has a caption on verso: "Marilyn Meehan / 1974 / Pan Am stewardess / 22 years old." The remaining two prints are 4x6 inches and depict Meehan...
Dates:
1973-1974, 2001
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Nancy and Klaus Meyn Trans World Airlines Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1990-09-24-A
Contents of the Collection
This small collection is comprised of Trans World Airlines (TWA) stationery and a magazine advertisement, circa 1950s-1960s. The stationery includes four notecards with small color lithographs of TWA promotional posters featuring motifs representing Philadelphia, Hawaii, and San Francisco, as well as one featuring the Boeing 707 as the "World's Fastest Jetliner." Letterhead on TWA stationery features company images and a route map. Magazine advertisement promotes winter travel on TWA...
Dates:
Circa 1950-1960s
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Larry Michelsen Pacific Northern Airlines textual materials
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1985-02-20
Contents of the Collection
The Larry Michelsen Pacific Northern Airlines (PNA) textual materials is a small collection of assorted newspaper clippings about PNA, circa 1959 and a photocopy of a merger decision for Western-Pacific Northern by the Civil Aeronautics Board, 1967. Many of the clippings are from unidentified newspapers, although some include identifying information. The materials are bound in a booklet with a front label, "Western-Pacific Northern Merger - Art Quinn." It is unknown who collected the...
Dates:
1959-1967
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
P.J. Muller Collection of Pan Am Menus
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 2008-04-24
Content Description
The P.J. Muller Collection of Pan Am Menus is a small collection consisting of four Pan Am Special Business Class dinner menu cards with commemorative illustrations of historic flights of Pam Am Clippers on the covers. The menus were acquired between 1984-1985 aboard Pan Am 747 flights between JFK (New York) and Heathrow (London) airports. The historic flights depicted include a Sikorsky S-38 Amphibian piloted by Charles Lindbergh delivering air mail to the Canal Zone from Miami,...
Dates:
1984-1985
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 Airways Postcards and Pacific Alaska Airways Photograph
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1989-05-23
Contents of the Collection
This small collection is comprised of three postcards for Pan American Airways and a photograph related to Pacific Alaska Airways. Of the postcards, two feature a Pan American Airways DC-6 with a text description on the reverse promoting the addition of "Super-6 Clippers" to the fleet, and the third depicts the "Sleeperette" lounge chair available on "President" flights. They are dated circa 1950s. The photograph depicts Pacific Alaska Airways personnel in front of a Lockheed 10 Electra,...
Dates:
1934, 1962
Found in:
The Museum of Flight Archives
Pan American World Airways Airmail Flight Menu
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: 1984-00-00-21
Contents of the Collection
The Pan American World Airways Airmail Flight Menu is a small collection is comprised of one folded-card dinner menu from the inaugural Air Mail flight from San Francisco to New Zealand on Pan American Airways Clipper "American," on July 12, 1940. The menu was signed by members of the crew, including Captain J. H. Tilton, while it was docked at the first stop on its route: Honolulu.
Dates:
1940 July 12
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
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