Airlines, Aircraft, & Civil Aviation Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930 Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race and Aerial Carnival attendant badge. The Gordon Bennett is the oldest and most prestigious aeronautic race in the world, which began...

ARTIFACT: This is a very rare 1912 Gordon Bennett Race subscription badge for the Chicago Air Meet. The Gordon Bennett is the oldest and most prestigious aeronautic race in the world, which began in...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1930 National Air Races at Chicago, Illinois field service badge on the event's 10th anniversary. The pin is round, showing an art deco aviation design and reading CHICAGO,...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1935 National Air Races at Cleveland, Ohio souvenir pin. The pin is round, showing a winged pilot's head and reading NATIONAL AIR RACES AUG. 30 TO SEPT. 2 CLEVELAND COMPLIMENTS...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1933 Chicago American Air Races contestant "wing". Debuting on Independence Day in 1900, the Chicago American was a newspaper initially owned by mogul William Randolph Hearst...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare 1980s pro-Eastern Airlines union support ribbon. It reads MY HAT IS STILL IN EASTERN'S RING, and shows the "hat-in-the-ring" logo made famous by World War I ace Eddie...

ARTIFACT: This is a lapel pin for the Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association (ALSSA), which formed in 1946 as part of the still active Air Line Pilots Association. ALSSA merged with the all...

ARTIFACT: 1940's - 1950's Amelia Earhart luggage key, lock #2086. The top of the key features the numbers, 2086, beneath it reads: "AMELIA EARHART" and depicting the front view of a plane propeller...

ARTIFACT: Unidentified, unknown 1930's (?) aviation lapel pin with possible ties to the Masons. The lapel pin features three propeller blades with wings on either side and beneath a square, one of...

ARTIFACT: This is an unidentified sterling silver lapel pin, possibly for an aviation or flying school. The pin reads either EAS or AES in an Art Deco script and the center is a triangle or Delta...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa early 1960's pin for the "Civairettes", a Federal Aviation Administration women's aviation organization. The pin is a plane flying across a golden sunburst...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1950 lapel pin for the Flight Engineer International Association (FEIA), which was formed in 1948 upon receipt of an international charter from the A.F. of L. The war and...