Aircraft Company Related Artifacts

ARTIFACT: This is a circa early 1950s worker badge for the Lockheed Air Terminal Inc. In 1940, the Lockheed Aircraft Company, then the largest US aircraft manufacturer, purchased and renamed the Union Air Terminal airport of Los Angeles (now known as the...

SUBJECT: This is a circa 1950-1952 lapel pin in 10 karat gold for the Chase Aircraft Company Inc., started in Trenton, New Jersey in 1943. The pin reads STROUKOFF AVITRUC and shows the military transport aircraft, evolved from a glider, of the same...

ARTIFACT: This is a 1940s-1950s five years of service pin for AiResearch Manufacturing Company in 14 karat gold with a ruby chip. The pin is round with a blue enamel background and bears a stylized A. VINTAGE: Circa 1940s-1950s. SIZE: Approximately: 1/2"...

ARTIFACT: This is a Pratt & Whitney Aircraft twenty years of service pin in 10 karat gold with four emeralds by Balfour. The pin shows a wreathed eagle at center flying above a winged hourglass and reads DEPENDABLE ENGINES. VINTAGE: Circa Korean War...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s lapel pin for ten years of service with three aviation production-related companies: Pratt & Whitney, NBP (Niles-Bement-Pond Company) and CECO (Chandler Evans). The octagonal pin is by Jordan Craft of Boston,...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s lapel pin for ten years of service with Eclipse-Pioneer. The company started out as Pioneer Instrument Company in 1919 and nine years later became a division of Bendix Aviation. Their name was changed to Eclipse-Pioneer in...

ARTIFACT: This is a circa 1940s Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Skeet Club shooting vest patch from North Haven, Connecticut. Pratt & Whitney was started by two Connecticut engineers in 1860, and evolved into Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company in 1925. The patch...

ARTIFACT: Rare 1940's Sikorsky Aircraft 20 Year Service Pin in enameled 10K gold with pearls by Balfour. The lovely oval blue enameled pin shows the Sikorsky company logo, a letter "S" with a feathered wing in the center with four stars below. There is a...

ARTIFACT: This is a rare circa 1945 twenty years of service pin for Pratt & Whitney in 10 karat gold by Robbins Company of Attleboro, Massachusetts. The pin is octagonal and enameled in blue and red with a diamond chip. VINTAGE: Circa 1945. ...

ARTIFACT: Gorgeous 1940’s Chance Vought Aircraft Corp. 5 Years of Service lapel pin by Balfour. Founded in 1917 under the name, The Lewis and Vought Corporation the name soon changed to Chance Vought Corporation in 1922 upon Lewis’ retirement. Chance...

ARTIFACT: 1930’s – WWII Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Workers shoulder patch. The round red, white, and blue patch shows an eagle in flight and reads: “PRATT & WHITNEY” along the top and: “AIRCRAFT” along the bottom. VINTAGE: Circa 1930’s - WWII ...

ARTIFACT: This is a World War I Pratt & Whitney Aircraft workers shoulder patch. VINTAGE: Circa WWI. SIZE: About 2-1/2" in width by 2-3/4" in height. CONSTRUCTION/MATERIALS: Cotton embroidery thread on cotton. ATTACHMENT: To be sewn...