Airlines, Aircraft, & Civil Aviation Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa mid-1950s patch for the Douglas Aircraft Company, which manufactured aircraft in California from 1921 until 1967, when it became McDonnell Douglas. The patch is in yellow wool and is embroidered to show an aircraft passing a...

ARTIFACT: Nice sterling silver Korean War era Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Engines Suggestion Award pin by Robbins. The pin shows an aircraft engine part with a blue enamel plate that reads: “PRATT & WHITNEY AIRCRAFT SUGGESTION AWARD” in silver lettering...

ARTIFACT: Late 1940’s – early 1950’s Douglas Aircraft 5 years of service pin by Robbins. The center shows a nearly 3D globe with the North and South American continents showing and three planes flying across in nice detail. Around the raised center...

ARTIFACT: Late 1940's - early 1950's Douglas Aircraft 10 years of service pin by Robbins. The center shows a nearly 3D globe with the North and South American continents showing and three planes flying across in nice detail. Around the raised center...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s worker identification badge for the Lockheed-California Company Facilities Engineering, a part of Lockheed’s Aeronautical Systems group. The badge is by the Whitehead & Hoag Company and is named to W. Prodanovic...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s worker identification badge for the Lockheed-California Company Facilities Engineering, a part of Lockheed’s Aeronautical Systems group. The badge is by the Whitehead & Hoag Company and is named to W. Prodanovic...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s worker badge for the Lockheed Air Terminal Inc. In 1940, the Lockheed Aircraft Company, then the largest US aircraft manufacturer, purchased and renamed the Union Air Terminal airport of Los Angeles (now known as the...

SUBJECT: This is a circa 1950-1952 lapel pin in 10 karat gold for the Chase Aircraft Company Inc., started in Trenton, New Jersey in 1943. The pin reads STROUKOFF AVITRUC and shows the military transport aircraft, evolved from a glider, of the same...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1940s-1950s five years of service pin for AiResearch Manufacturing Company in 14 karat gold with a ruby chip. The pin is round with a blue enamel background and bears a stylized A. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s-1950s. SIZE: Approximately:...

ARTIFACT: This is a Pratt & Whitney Aircraft twenty years of service pin in 10 karat gold with four emeralds by Balfour. The pin shows a wreathed eagle at center flying above a winged hourglass and reads DEPENDABLE ENGINES. VINTAGE: Circa Korean War...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s lapel pin for ten years of service with three aviation production-related companies: Pratt & Whitney, NBP (Niles-Bement-Pond Company) and CECO (Chandler Evans). The octagonal pin is by Jordan Craft of Boston,...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s lapel pin for ten years of service with Eclipse-Pioneer. The company started out as Pioneer Instrument Company in 1919 and nine years later became a division of Bendix Aviation. Their name was changed to Eclipse-Pioneer in...