Title: Aviation Collection

Reference Code: Mss-1969

Inclusive Dates: 1920 – ongoing

Quantity: 1.2 cu. ft. total

Location: BV 097-098 (0.8 cu. ft.) RC9, Sh. 007 & 015 (0.4 cu. ft.)

Scope and Content: This collection contains general aviation documents on the local, state and national level as well as files on more specific subjects such as Hamilton Field and the EAA. In addition, this collection includes pamphlets from various .

Access and Use: No restrictions

Language: English

Notes: The collection was processed by Jeewon Schally, April 1993, and added to multiple times by Steve Daily and Kevin Abing.

Arrangement:

Folder Heading Box # File # Hamilton Field (1926) 1 1 Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) (1971-1990) 1 2 Aviators 1 3 - Clara Adams (1939) - Charles A. Lindbergh (1920, 1927-1928) [Includes letter re Lindbergh’s Special Air Mail flight from --St. Louis) - Richard Ira Bong - Douglas Corrigan Milwaukee 1 4 - "National Transportation Week" by The Milwaukee Journal (1966) - "On the Move" by The Milwaukee Sentinel (1966) - Badger Jaycee National Air Show Program (1966) - Jaycee Aero Space Exposition (1965) - Post card from Midwest Airways, Inc., depicting the "sister-ship" of Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis," ca. 1927 - Newspaper clipping, "What Could Have Been," on Alfred Lawson, 1991 - "America's First Airliner," by Francis J. Allen, Air Classics, November 1984 - Program/menu honoring Capt. Wolfgang Von Gronau, 1932 - “Milwaukee County’s First Airport” by George Hardie - “Milwaukee’s First Airliner” by George Hardie - Membership Application/Information Card for Aero Club of - Program, Air Force Association Billy Mitchell Award, ca. 1966 Wisconsin 1 5 - Wisconsin Aeronautical Chart (2 copies) - Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame, Inc. - Wisconsin War Flying Foundation, Inc. - Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame Newsletter, Fall 2003 - 2 postcards to welcome Charles Lindbergh and Bremen Flyers, 1927-1928 National 1 6 - Journal of Aerospace Education (1974) - Air Lines of the - "Fifty Years of Aviation Progress" - "Air Power" - Facts and Figures about Postal Transportation - Flyers re: National Air Show, 2003 - “Developments and Experimental Work in Aviation,” by Peter J. Vermeulen, M.U. Engineering Class 1922 (1940-1951) 1 7 North Central Airlines (1960-1974) 1 8 Capital Airlines (formerly known as Pennsylvania Central Airlines) (1940- 1 9 1952) Miscellaneous Airlines 1 10 - (1968-1970) - Braniff Airways (1944) - Chicago and Lines (1944) - (1960) - (1944-1975) - Kohler Aviation Corporation (1933) - North Central Airlines (1962) - (1939-1997) - Pan American World Airways (1948) - TWA (1944) - United Air Lines (1944-1975) - 1997 Timetable, Continental Airlines Bibliography re: the Lawson Airliner 1 11

Issues of Sports Aviation (Publication of the Experimental Aircraft 2 Loose Association), 1962-1966

OVERSIZE ITEMS National Air Tour’03 OS SM “A”

SCRAPBOOKS LOCATION Clippings and photos of aviators Lester Maitland, Albert J. Hegenberger, RC9, SH. 015 and Charles Lindbergh, ca. 1920s "Aviation News" scrapbook including clippings pertaining to aviators RC9, Sh. 007 Charles Lindbergh, Lester Maitland, Albert Hegenberger, Clarence Chamberlain, Charles Levine and Robert Byrd, 1927-1937 (donated by Kenosha County Historical Society, September 1998)