Air pilots
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Aeronautics Commission of Indiana, 1945 - 1954
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 323, Series 3, Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes materials related to Cornish's time as the first director of the Aeronautics Commission of Indiana from 1945 to 1953. Included are photographs, clippings, and correspondence. Of note are a desk diary from 1953 and letters of disappointment from friends and colleagues learning of Cornish's replacement as aeronautics director in 1953.
Dates:
1945 - 1954
Neil A. Armstrong papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 5
Scope and Contents
The Neil A. Armstrong papers document the military, aeronautics, astronautics, teaching and corporate business career of Neil A. Armstrong. The papers also feature items from Armstrong's youth and education. The collection includes but is not limited to documents, coursework, working papers, subject files, correspondence, writings, speeches, recordings, photographs and newspaper clippings. The papers are divided into eighteen series, and further information on the scope and content of the...
Dates:
1671 - 2012; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2012
Aviation Groups and Memberships, 1935 - 1996
Sub-Series — Box 3: Series MSP 323, Series 3; Series MSP 323, Series 4
Identifier: MSP 323, Series 3, Sub-Series 4
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes photographs, documents, and membership details from the various aviation groups Cornish was a member of throughout his life such as the Quiet Birdmen, OX-5 Aviation Pioneers, and the Indianapolis Aero Club.
Dates:
1935 - 1996
Purdue University Department of Aviation Technology records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 12
Scope and Contents
The Purdue University Department of Aviation Technology records document the historical background of the department, the Purdue University Airport, and key moments in the history of aviation in Tippecanoe County. Scrapbooks compiled by the department provide a rich collection of photographs and news clippings which highlight key historical moments, individuals, additions of labs and simulators, and aircraft at the Purdue University Airport. Publications among the...
Dates:
1928 - 2010; Other: Majority of material found within 1970 - 1999
Robert Lanson Dunham papers on George Pickels
Collection — Communal collections box 86
Identifier: MSS 3
Scope and Contents
Materials include one black and white photograph of Pickels with three other men at the Purdue University Airport. One of the men is Robert Lanson Dunham, roommate of Pickels. Also included is a clipping from the Purdue Exponent discussing Pickels's death.
Dates:
ca. 1940
Jerome M. Goldman papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 461
Scope and Contents
The Jerome Goldman papers document Goldman's career as a Purdue University student in Aeronautical Engineering, his service in the United States Army Air Corp and his work afterwards as a pilot for United Air Lines, along with his key role in establishing Purdue Aeronautics Corporation and Purdue Air Lines as chief pilot, director of operations, and later vice president for operations and maintenance. Also included are papers from his work with International Learning Systems, the Federal...
Dates:
1941 - 1972; Other: Majority of material found within 1965 - 1972
Jacqueline Kruper Women in Aviation papers and rare books
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 187
Scope and Contents
The Jacqueline Kruper Women in Aviation papers and rare books give a glimpse into the lives of key aviatrices in the earliest years of flight, along with pioneer aviators. The ephemera includes magazine advertisements from 1943, which provide a unique look into how women aviators were portrayed during the 1940s. The papers also include Jacqueline Kruper's writings for Woman Pilot magazine, and book reviews for Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military, and H-Minerva, H-Net...
Dates:
1927 - 2015; Other: Majority of material found within 1991 - 2009
Frederick J. Noonan and Mary Beatrice Noonan papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 224
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, newsclippings, and scrapbook, relating to Frederick Noonan’s career as a navigator for Pan American Airways China Clipper and as navigator for Amelia Earhart’s 1937 world flight attempt.
Dates:
1930-2008; Majority of material found within 1930-1937
Photograph from Amelia Earhart's 1937 World Flight, Karachi, India
Unprocessed Material — Box Communal Accessions 46, Folder: 1
Identifier: 20200903
Dates:
June 16, 1937
Pilot Records and Anniversary Flights, 1918 - 1995
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 323, Series 3, Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
This subseries includes pilot licenses, records, and information on anniversary flights Cornish partook in yearly to commemorate his first flight. Materials include photographs, clippings, correspondence, artifacts, and documents. Artifacts include two pilot goggles, a pair of pilot gloves, and a pilot's cap autographed by family, friends, and colleagues of Cornish's. Of note are two pilot logs Cornish used while learning to fly during World War I and up until his last flight a few weeks...
Dates:
1918 - 1995
Paul E. Stanley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 50
Scope and Contents
The Paul E. Stanley papers document the earliest years of the School of Aeronautics and the planning that went into creating the school. Other material among the papers pertain to the early years of the Purdue Airport and Division of Engineering Sciences. Neil Armstrong was a student of Stanley's, and there are clippings, front pages of newspapers, reports, an invitation sent by Armstrong to Stanley for his homecoming celebrating in Wapakoneta, Ohio, along with other pre and post-Apollo 11...
Dates:
1909 - 1972; Majority of material found within 1947 - 1969
Wilmer and Mildred Stultz papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 209
Scope and Contents
The Wilmer and Mildred Stultz papers document the career, travels, and family life of the Stultzes. The photo albums feature some of the 50 planes flown by Stultz, colleagues in the aviation field, aerial photographs of air fields and cities, automobiles from the 1920s, key flights flown by Stultz and events surrounding those flights, including the 1928 flight of the "Friendship" Fokker with Amelia Earhart and Louis Gordon, and other aspects of his career. Types of materials...
Dates:
1917 - 1960; Other: Majority of material found within 1928
Thomas A. Murray American Airlines "Shepard One" items
Unprocessed Material — Communal accessions box 28
Identifier: 20170113
Dates:
2015
Elizabeth Speirs collection on Ramoth H. Trask
Collection — Communal collections box 86
Identifier: MSP 335
Scope and Contents
Includes Ramoth H. Trask's student pilot's permit from 1928, newspaper clippings of her obituary and posthumous donations to Purdue, and a photograph of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority in 1919 where Trask was a member.
Dates:
1919 - 1973