Airline Transportation Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a scarce circa 1930s Pan Am Airways (PAA) numbered pilot hat badge 2nd issue, Type 1, originally belonging to PAA pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan. Sullivan joined the United States Navy in 1918, functioning as a...

ARTIFACT: This is a Pan Am San Francisco Fire Brigade badge from the 1950s-1960s. At center is the Pan Am globe logo with a light blue border around it. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s-1960s. SIZE: 15/16" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Gold-plated brass,...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1980s pilot hat badge 5th issue for Pan Am. The badge is an openwork globe. VINTAGE: Circa 1980s. SIZE: Approximately 1-5/8" in diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Nickel-plated brass, enamel. ATTACHMENT: Single screw post...

ARTIFACT: This is a very rare, numbered early World War II radioman hat badge for PAA Africa (also known as PAA Ferries). Roosevelt and Churchill approached Pan Am to form a subsidiary that would have outposts in Africa, and the venture became...

ARTIFACT: This is a TACA International Airlines (affiliate of Pan Am) patch. VINTAGE: Circa 1950s. SIZE: About 3-15/16" in width by 2-5/8" in height. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Cotton/poly/silk embroidery thread on twill. ATTACHMENT: To be sewn onto...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1960s lapel pin by Balfour for thirty years of service with Pan Am. The pin is a small robin's egg blue globe with the number 30 beneath it. VINTAGE: Circa 1960s. SIZE: Approximately 7/16" in height and 7/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION...

ARTIFACT: This is a late 1940s Pan Am five years of service lapel pin by Balfour. The pin is a nicely enameled globe with one wing. VINTAGE: Circa late 1940s. SIZE: Approximately 7/16" in height and 11/16" in width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a super rare World War II set of pilot's collar insignia for the Chinese National Aviation Corporation, an airline co-owned equally by Pan Am Airlines and the Chinese government. CNAC ran many missions for the United States Army Air...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare World War II Pan American Air Ferries (PAAF) collar insignia in sterling silver which reads PAAF. President Franklin Roosevelt asked Pan American Airways in 1941 to ferry bombers and military transports overseas, and the result...

ARTIFACT: This is 1940s uniform patch for a TACA Airlines employee (TACA was a division of Pan American). The patch is oval and shows a speeding parrot and reads TACA. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s. SIZE: 2" height and 3-1/2" width. CONSTRUCTION /...

ARTIFACT: This is a historically important numbered circa 1934 Pan Am Airways (PAA) five years of service pin, originally belonging to PAA pioneer pilot R. O. D. (Robert Oliver Daniel) Sullivan. Sullivan joined the United States Navy in 1918, functioning...

ARTIFACT: This is a Pan Am Air Traveler lapel pin showing a winged Pan Am globe logo against a field of blue. VINTAGE: Circa 1930s. SIZE: Approximately 5/8" diameter. CONSTRUCTION / MATERIALS: Plated brass with painted areas. ATTACHMENT: Vertical pin...