Airlines, Aircraft, & Civil Aviation Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a very rare first issue Air America SMALL SIZE Cap Badge made of coin silver and shows an Air America crest flanked by two spread wings. Air America was the civilian airline used by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Vietnam War...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1930s Nashville Flying Service Air Mail lot that contains three black and white photographs (one signed on reverse by Jim Foxworth), a 1938 certificate of pilot cooperation addressed to D.T. Ford from the Postmaster General, a...

ARTIFACT: This is a great commissioner's badge for the Michigan Department of Aeronautics from the Golden Age of Aviation. The badge is by Weyhing Brothers of Detroit and is in gilt sterling silver. It resembles a police badge with the Michigan state...

ARTIFACT: This is a great enameled chairman's badge for the Illinois Aeronautics Commission from the Golden Age of Aviation. The badge resembles a sheriff's badge and shows the Illinois state seal at its center. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Bell Aircraft Plant Police hat and breast badge set. A prolific aircraft manufacturer, Bell became most known for producing the first supersonic aircraft, the Bell X-1. VINTAGE: Circa WWII. SIZE: Hat badge: About...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1930s Czech Republic MLL (Masaryk Air League) glider badge 2nd Class. MLL was named for Tom‡ Garrigue Masaryk, champion of Czech independence and the first Czechoslovakian president. Some MLL members flew with the British...

ARTIFACT: This is a very rare circa 1930s Italian Air Force "Atlantic" pilot award wing. Only 55 of these wings were manufactured, and they were presented to the pilots who made a successful round-trip transAtlantic flight while accompanying Air Marshal...

ARTIFACT: This badge is from the air rally of the Paris World Exposition in 1937. VINTAGE: Circa 1937. SIZE: About 1 " wide and 7/8 in height. The catch on the back is " tall. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gilt brass and enamel. ATTACHMENT: Locking...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful circa 1910-1912 French aviation industries bronze table medal. The face is divided into three parts, one showing a bi-plane, one showing a winged figure and one showing an airship. It reads NAVIGATION AERIENNE (aerial...

ARTIFACT: This is a very rare World War II badge for French aviation cadets training in the United States. The badge is for the Centre de Formation du Personnel Navigant en AmŽrique (CFPNA), or Training Centre of Cabin Crew in America, which was formed...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare World War II collar insignia for the Chinese National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), an airline co-owned equally by Pan Am Airlines and the Chinese government. CNAC ran many missions for the United States Army Air Forces American...

ARTIFACT: This is a great late 1960s promotional lighter by Penguin for Flying Tigers Airlines. Flying Tigers Airlines, originally the Flying Tiger Line, began in 1945 as the first commercial air cargo company in the US and later became military charter...