Airlines, Aircraft, & Civil Aviation Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Wright Aero Corporation member dues celluloid pin from March 194Wright Aero was the aircraft engine manufacturing division of the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. The pin is by Bastian Brothers of Rochester, New York...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II plant access badge for the Buffalo, New York division of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Curtiss-Wright closed out World War II with the distinction of producing the most aircraft of any other American company. The badge is...

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce World War II worker's badge for Pratt & Whitney in Missouri. The pin is a blue square with a keyhole-shaped cut-out to display the worker's photograph: in this case, a middle-aged man with glasses. VINTAGE: Circa World War II...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Aviation Training Service Flight Suit patch. VINTAGE: Circa WWII. SIZE: About 10-1/4 in width by 4-1/2" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Cotton/poly/silk embroidery thread on twill. ATTACHMENT: To be sewn onto...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s workers badge for Wright Aero Corporation. The pin is roughly square and reads WRIGHT AERO. CORP. C3611. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s. SIZE: 1-9/16" height and 1-1/2" width. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Clear plastic front with white...

ARTIFACT: This is a numbered 1920s-1930s workers badge for Wright Aero Corporation. The pin is roughly square and reads WRIGHT AERO. CORP. GARFIELD 9077. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s-1930s. SIZE: 1-9/16" height and 1-1/2" width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1935 advertising/recruiting brochure for the Curtiss-Wright Technical Institute of Aeronautics School. The school was started in 1929 and was headquartered at the Glendale, California Grand Central Air Terminal (the school was...

ARTIFACT: This is a great enameled lapel pin for Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Corporation from the early 1930s. Curtiss-Wright closed out World War II with the distinction of producing the most aircraft of any other American company. The pin is a petite wing...

ARTIFACT: This is a cool 1930s worker badge for the Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane Division in Buffalo, New York. Curtiss-Wright began in 1929 when Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company of Buffalo, New York, and Wright Aeronautical of Dayton, Ohio...

ARTIFACT: This is a great enameled lapel pin for Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Corporation from the early 1930s. Curtiss-Wright closed out World War II with the distinction of producing the most aircraft of any other American company. The pin is a petite wing...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1935 pin Graf Zeppelin LZ-127 souvenir pin in nickel-plated brass. The airship "Graf Zeppelin" was named after the Germany's airship pioneer, Count (Graf) Ferdinand von Zeppelin. The ship flew passenger flights starting in 1928...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1957 American Legion National Air Mail Roundup award wing. Originally termed the Aerial Roundup starting in 1933, the Legion's Air Mail Roundup was renamed in 1950, and was the method of membership card collection from around...