Miscellaneous Civil Aviation Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is an interesting circa 1920s or early 1930s leather flight helmet. The back flap can be worn down for warmth or snapped up off the neck. It also has a short visor and two side snap flaps covering a pair of earholes: the snaps have a neat...

ARTIFACT: This is a pair of circa 1920s or early 1930s aviator's or motorcyclist's goggles. They are tinted in an orange hue for enhanced vision. These goggles sport a handsome reddish leather with cut-out details and even have a stylish herringbone...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa World War I membership pin for the Aerial League of America, a civilian aviation organization. The pin is by Whitehead & Hoag and shows a winged propeller at its center and reads ALA. VINTAGE: Circa World War I...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War II Polaris Flight Academy named graduate presentation bracelet by Entenmann. Polaris Flight Academy set up shop in 1941 at War Eagle Field in the Mojave Desert, initially training cadets of the Royal and Royal Canadian Air...

ARTIFACT: This is a beautiful 1930 badge for the Zeppelin landing at Basel. VINTAGE: Circa 1930. SIZE: About 1-13/16" in width by 1-3/16" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Silver. ATTACHMENT: Horizontal one-piece safety-type pin attached to badge...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s member lapel pin for the Ninety-Nines, a women's aviation group founded in 192The club's birth happened at Curtiss Field on Long Island, New York, and it was officially named two years later for the ninety-nine charter...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1934-1935 Douglas Aircraft Company DC-2 "first flight" pin, commemorating the May 11, 1934 flight. The pin is very petite and finely-detailed, and is shaped like a DC-2 coming at the viewer head-on. VINTAGE: Circa 1934-1935...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1930s member lapel pin for the Ninety-Nines, a women's aviation group founded in 192The club's birth happened at Curtiss Field on Long Island, New York, and it was officially named two years later for the ninety-nine...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s-1930s lapel wing from Roosevelt Field, New York, Lindbergh's departure site on his solo flight to Paris in 192The wing shows an R against a field of black at its center. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s-1930s. SIZE: 1/4" height and 15/16"...

ARTIFACT: This is a historically important Quiet Birdmen member lapel pin, originally belonging to Pan American Airways (PAA) pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan. The Quiet Birdmen was a secret society for male aviators founded in 1921...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1920s-1930s lapel wing from Roosevelt Field, New York, Lindbergh's departure site on his solo flight to Paris in 192The wing shows an R against a field of black at its center. VINTAGE: Circa 1920s-1930s. SIZE: Approximately 1/4" in...

ARTIFACT: This is a great D-LZ129 Hindenburg pennant for the craft's visit to Lakehurst, New Jersey, the same year that the Olympics were held in Germany. The rings on the zeppelin were only used during this year. This is also notably the year before the...