Airlines, Aircraft, & Civil Aviation Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is an attendee badge from a May 1930 National Airport Conference at Buffalo, New York. The badge is round and has a slot for the name and hometown of the attendee, CHAS. W. SHORT TULSA OKLA. The badge reads NATIONAL AIRPORT CONFERENCE,...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1st annual 1919 Aeronautical Exposition in New York medal. The medal reads FIRST ANNUAL AERONAUTICAL EXPOSITION NEW YORK MARCH 1-15, 1919 and shows the Statue of Liberty, airplanes and a winged insignia. The medal hangs from a red,...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare Wright Flyer celluloid pin from the 1910 Brockton Massachusetts Fair. The pin reads BROCKTON FAIR OCT. 4-5-6-7-1910 and shows a Wright flyer. VINTAGE: Circa 1910. SIZE: 1-1/4" diameter CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Celluloid...

ARTIFACT: Fourth Edition, 1974 Veteran and Vintage Aircraft compiled by Leslie Hunt. "The world's preserved aircraft ??? where they are ??? what they look like ??? who owns them". The book was published by The Garnstone Press Limited and...

ARTIFACT: Cool 1943 What's That Plane: How to Identify American and Jap Airplanes by Walter Pitkin, Jr., a Penguin Book printed for the Infantry Journal. The soft cover of the Second Edition printing shows a group of Republic "Thunderbolts"...

ARTIFACT: This is a first edition hardcover copy of the "Aircraft of the World: Recognition Book". The book was published in London in the 1930s by Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd. It is a "pocket" size, but far too thick to fit in...

ARTIFACT: This is a paperback first edition copy of "DC-3", Weapons Book Number 44 in the Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century series. Written by Arthur Pearcy, this volume deals with the workhorse aircraft by Douglas that...

ARTIFACT: Great WWII aviation book You, Too, Can Learn to Fly by Howard F. Dutton and printed The Pyne-Davidson Co. in Hartford, Connecticut. The 57 page book includes flying tips, techniques, and a few photographs from the author and winner of the...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1941 edition of Jane's "All the World's Aircraft", published in 1942 by the MacMillan Company. Fred T. Jane started "Jane's" in 1909 and it was subsequently published in the United States and Canada. This volume is a wonderful...

ARTIFACT: This is a softcover copy of "United States Women in Aviation 1919-1929", Number 5 in the Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space series. It was written by Kathleen Brooks-Pazmany and published in 198The book is full of great period photographs and...

ARTIFACT: 1979 The Bomber in World War II by Alfred Price and published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. The 1st US Edition, hardcover contain 148 pages of pictures and text - "A Comparative Study on the Evolution of Aircraft and Tactics: Great...

ARTIFACT: Circa 1944 Fighting Wings - A Pictorial History of Aerial Combat by Gilbert Paust and Milton Lancelot. This example is a 1st Edition and nearly every one of the 255 pages contains a photograph of aircraft in flight. The book is a wonderful...