Aviation Archives: Difference between revisions

Introduction

The content on this page takes two forms. The first is the real-world locations of aviation archives. The second is online accessible documents. Links to the direct catalog entry are included where available.

Airlines

Air France – Air France Museum (digitized collections on Gallica)
AirTran Airways – National Museum of Commercial Aviation
America West Airlines – National Museum of Commercial Aviation
Braniff Airways – Braniff Airways Foundation, University of Texas at Dallas
British Airways – British Airways Heritage Collection
Delta Airlines – Delta Flight Museum (digitized collections on Digital Library of Georgia, Ref, Ref, Ref)
Eastern Airlines – Georgia State University, University of Miami (Eastern Airlines Retiree Association collection, Ref, Ref)
FedEx Express – National Museum of Commercial Aviation
Island Air Service – Bowling Green State University (Milton Hersberger personal collection)
Northwest Airlines – NWA History Center, Minnesota Historical Society
Pacific Southwest Airlines – San Diego Air and Space Museum
Pan American – University of Miami (digitized collections), Duke University (advertisements), HistoryMiami Museum (other collections), SFO Museum (films, Ref)
Piedmont Airlines – Piedmont Aviation Historical Society
Republic Airlines – Minnesota Historical Society
Trans-Australia Airlines – Trans-Australia Airlines Museum
Trans World Airlines – State Historical Society of Missouri, TWA Museum at 10 Richards Road
United Airlines – United Airlines Historical Foundation

Country Specific

Aviation Heritage Archive – collection of documents related to Japanese aviation history maintained by the Japan Aeronautic Association
Aviation Ancestry Database of British Aviation Advertisements – database of British aviation advertisements
Biblioteca Nacional de Aeronautica – national aeronautical library of Argentina
Finnish Air Force Museum (onsite archive) (digital archive) – collection of documents related to Finnish aviation history, including about 130,000 photographs
Österreichisches Luftfahrt-Archiv – collection of documents about the history of aviation in Austria, publishes the periodical "FLUG-Informationen"
Polish Aviation Museum (old webpage) (new webpage) – list of digitized documents from the museum's collections
Swedish Aviation Historical Society – collection of documents related to the history of aviation in Sweden

Manuals

For more information, see Digital Aircraft Manual Sources

AeroAntique: AeroAntique On-Line Library – mostly World War II American aircraft documents
Avialogs (Paid Access) – collection of digitized aircraft manuals from around the world
Aviation Shoppe: Aircraft Manuals/Original Rare Documents – small collection of digitized American military aircraft documents, mostly from World War II
DeutscheLuftwaffe: Das Archiv – collection of World War II German aircraft documents with a focus on cockpit instruments
Hangar 13: Library – small collection of manuals, mostly related to the B-17 and its equipment
Luftfahrt-Archiv Hafner – collection of German aircraft documents from 1928-1945, organized by manufacturer
The Caldwell Collection: Manuals, Handbooks, and Guides – collection of 1920s-30s civilian aircraft manuals and sales material
Thomson's Aviation Library – business selling over 300,000 original aircraft manuals

Specific Aircraft

Manufacturers

Manufacturer Periodicals

A W Affairs – Armstrong Whitworth
AeROHRcrafter – Rohr
Aeronautics Star – Lockheed Martin
Aero-Vought-Ics – Vought
Aircrafter – Canadian Car and Foundry
Aircraftings – Wright-Martin
Aircraftsman – Lockheed
Airview – Douglas
Airview News – Douglas
Alexander Aircrafter – Alexander
Ameri-Kansan – North American
Bee-Hive – United Aircraft Corporation
Beech Log – Beechcraft^[1]
Beechcraft Bulletin – Beechcraft^[1]
Beechcrafter – Beechcraft^[1]
Bladesman – Curtiss-Wright
BMW Flugmotoren-Nachrichten – BMW
[Boeing] Magazine – Boeing
[Boeing] News – Boeing
Brewster Builder – Brewster
Bristol Quarterly – Bristol
Bristol Review – Bristol
Bulletin Technique des Avions H. Potez – Potez
Bulletin Walter – Walter
Cessna Times – Cessna
Cessquire – Cessna
Code One – General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin
Consolidated Vultee News – Consolidated Vultee
Consolidator – Consolidated^[2]
Convairiety – Convair
Curtiss Fly Leaf – Curtiss
Curtiss-Wright Review – Curtiss-Wright
[Curtiss-Wright] Sales and Service Newsletter – Curtiss-Wright
D H Gazette – de Havilland
Der Condor – Focke-Wulf
Doak Digest – Doak
Douglas Airview – Douglas
[Douglas] News Letter – Douglas
[Douglas] Service – Douglas
Eastern Aircraftsman – Eastern
Engineering – Lockheed
FAD – Fairchild
Fairchild Aviation News – Fairchild
Fairey Affairs – Fairey
Fleetwings News – Fleetwings
Flight and Service News Letter/Field Service Bulletin – Consolidated/Consolidated Vultee^[3]
Flight Deck – Consolidated Vultee^[4]
Flight Sheet – Vought-Sikorsky
Gallaudet News – Gallaudet
General Dynamics News – General Dynamics
General Dyanmics World – General Dynamics
Global Service Log – Lockheed
Globe Beam – Globe
Gnome Rhone Journal – Gnome Rhone
Grumman Plane News – Grumman
Grumman World – Grumman
Hangar Flying – Lockheed
Hawker Siddeley News – Hawker Siddeley
Hawker Siddeley Review – Hawker Siddeley
Hiller Copter-News – Hiller^[5]
Junkers Nachrichten – Junkers
Kaman Rotor Tips – Kaman
Let's Eat – Lockheed
Lockheed Horizons – Lockheed
Lockheed Southern Star – Lockheed
McDonnell Airscoop – McDonnell^[6]
McDonnell Bulletin – McDonnell
Miles Magazine – Miles
Milestones – Miles
Mission Success – Lockheed Martin
Norcrafter – Northrop
North American Log – North American
North Ameri-Kansan – North American
[Northrop] Life – Northrop
[Northrop] News – Northrop
Pilatus Post – Pilatus
Piper Pilot – Piper
Plane Power – Jacobs
Plane-Talk – Vultee/Consolidated Vultee^[7]
Republic Aviation News – Republic
Revue a Bulletin Technique de la Societe Francaise Hispano-Suiza – Hispano-Suiza
Revue de la Societe Generale Aeronautique – Societe Generale Aeronautique
Revue Technique Hispano-Suiza – Hispano-Suiza
Ryan Reporter – Ryan
Service News – North American
Short Quarterly Review – Short
Short Story – Short
Siemens Aircraft News – Siemens
Simpli-Facts – Lockheed
Sky-Gest – American Aviation
Skyline – North American
Skywriter – North American
Star – Lockheed
Stinson Plane News – Stinson
Tailspins – Allison
Take-Off – North American
Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical Achiever – Teledyne Ryan
Temco Tidings – Temco
The Air Box – Chandler-Evans
The Armstrong Siddeley Air-Mail – Armstrong Siddeley
The Beechcraft Engineering Service Magazine – Beechcraft^[1]
The Beechcraft Sales Altimeter – Beechcraft^[1]
The Bellringer – Bell
The Bristol Review Engine Issue – Bristol
The Cub Flyer – Piper
The Curtiss Wright-Er – Curtiss-Wright
The Eagle – Consolidated Vultee
The Faircrafters – Fairchild
The Flying Reporter – Ryan
The Gloster – Gloster
The Kirkham News – Kirkham
The Lycoming Star – Lycoming
The Lycoming Starduster – Lycoming
The Martin Star – Martin
The Pegasus – Fairchild
The Red Seal – Continental
The Short Story News-Gazette – Short
The Tradewind – Curtiss-Wright
The Vultair – Vultee
The Waco Word – Waco
The Wasp Nest – Pratt & Whitney
This Week – General Dynamics
Trade Winds – Curtiss-Wright
Vickers & Supermarine Aviation Bulletin – Supermarine
Waco Pilot – Waco
Wingfoot Clan: Aircraft Edition – Goodyear

Reference, Reference

Aero Spacelines – Camarillo Wing of the Commemorative Air Force/Daren Savage (Ref)
Aeronca – National Air and Space Museum (order form), some material at Aeronca Museum
Augusta – Museo Augusta
Auster – Auster Heritage Group
Arrow – History Nebraska
Avro – partially destroyed in 1959 fire, some at Avro Heritage Museum, some with Royal Air Force Museum
Avro Canada – photograph collection with Canadian Aviation and Space Museum (digitized collections, catalog entry) (Ref)
Beechcraft – Beechcraft Heritage Museum, Wichita State University (Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech personal papers)
Bell – University of North Texas, Lawrence D. Bell Aircraft Museum (Lawrence D. Bell personal collection) (Ref, Ref)
Bellanca – National Air and Space Museum (personal papers of Giuseppe M. Bellanca with some aircraft documentation)
Blackburn – some with Royal Air Force Museum
Boeing – still with company (photographs available via Boeing Images) (Ref, Ref, Ref)
Breda – Institute for the History of the Contemporary Age (papers, photographs)
Bristol – Aerospace Bristol, Bristol Archives (papers of Lionel Harris, papers of Sir George White), Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Bristol Branch (Bristol Engine Company)
Burnelli – some with New England Air Museum (Ref)
Canadian Vickers – partially destroyed in fire
Cessna – Wichita State University (Aircrafter yearbooks, Dwane Wallace collection, Model 150 production records, Model 170 production records, Model 180 production records, Model 182 production records, Model 185 production records, various production records), San Diego Air & Space Museum (Mort Brown collection), photographs still with company (Ref)
Command Aire – blueprints destroyed, copies of some records with Federal Aviation Administration, very limited number of mostly photographs with Arkansas Aviation Historical Society Collection at Butler Center for Arkansas Studies (Ref, Ref)
Commonwealth (Australia) – Moorabbin Aviation Museum
Consolidated – see Convair
Convair – San Diego Air & Space Museum, Lockheed Martin (via The Portal to Texas History)
Curtiss – some blueprints at Glenn H. Curtiss Museum (Ref), Cradle of Aviation Museum (digitized collections on New York Heritage)
Curtiss-Wright – National Air and Space Museum (partially), some destroyed, microfilm of engine drawings at Wright State University, some at Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey (Ref)
de Havilland – some at Royal Air Force Museum, The People's Mosquito has copies of mostly mosquito drawings, Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Bristol Branch (de Havilland Engine Company)
de Havilland Canada – Viking Air (Ref), Canadian Air and Space Conservancy
Douglas – now with Boeing
ERCO – College Park Aviation Museum
Fairchild – National Air and Space Museum (former employee personal collection, Model 24 drawings available using order form), Library of Congress (Sherman Fairchild personal papers), UC Santa Barbara (Fairchild Aerial Surveys, California Office), New York State Archives (Fairchild Aerial Surveys, New York Office), New Jersey State Archives (Fairchild Aerial Surveys), Steven Styles (AU-23 drawings, Ref)
Fairey – Royal Air Force Museum
Fleetwings – Margaret R. Grundy Memorial Library (Henry A. Liese and James M. Shimer personal collections) (Ref)
Fokker (American) – American Aviation Historical Society (photographs)
Folland – some with Royal Air Force Museum
Galludet – some with Neil Williams Ross, Ann Holst/Clouds Hill Victorian Museum (Ref)
General Aircraft – some with Royal Air Force Museum
General Dynamics – San Diego Air & Space Museum, Lockheed Martin (via The Portal to Texas History)
Globe – Swift Museum Foundation (mostly Swfit related, via Air Corps Library) (Ref, Ref)
Goodyear – University of Akron
Grahame-White – some with Royal Air Force Museum
Granville Brothers – New England Air Museum (blueprints, Ref), University of Massachusetts (interviews with employees)
Grumman – Northrop Grumman History Center, Cradle of Aviation Museum (digitized collections on New York Heritage), OV-1 production drawings destroyed^[8]
Handley Page – Royal Air Force Museum (administrative and business records), Imperial War Museum (drawings and photographs)
Hawker Siddeley – some with Royal Air Force Museum, Coventry Collections (Armstrong/Bristol Siddeley)
Heinkel – Deutsches Museum
Henschel – Henschel Museum & Collection (mostly family and railroad related, some aviation)
Heath – National Air and Space Museum
Howard – Howard Aircraft Foundation
Hughes – Florida Air Museum (Howard Hughes personal collection)
Junkers – Deutsches Museum
Lear – Museum of Flight (William Lear personal collection, Ref)
Lockheed – Library of Congress (Robert Gross personal collection), Huntington Library (Albert Yackle personal collection), San Diego Air & Space Museum (Star newsletters)
Loening – Library of Congress (Grover Loening personal collection)
Luscombe – Luscombe Aircraft Corporation ("historical records, engineering drawings and production work orders")
Martin – Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum, early records at Museum of Flight (Ref)
Messerschmitt – National Air and Space Museum (Me 163 drawings available using order form), Deutsches Museum
Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm – Deutsches Museum (Ref)
Meyers – with Mike Barg (OTW blueprints) (Ref)
Miles – some with Royal Air Force Museum
Mooney – National Air and Space Museum (M-18 drawings available using order form)
North American – now with Boeing, blueprints from Columbus plant with AirCorps Library (Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref)
Northrop Grumman – Huntington Library
Piaggio – Museo Piaggio (mostly scooter related)
Pietenpol – still with Pietenpol family
Piper – Piper Aviation Museum
Platt-LePage – The Franklin Institute (personal papers of Wynn Laurence LePage) and Hagley Museum and Library (company photos)
PWS – Polish Aviation Museum (digitized collections)
Reggiane – Municipality of Reggio Emilia
Republic Aviation – destroyed, Cradle of Aviation Museum (digitized collections on New York Heritage)
Rockwell – now with Boeing, Fort Worth Aviation Museum (OV-10 materials, unclear if corporate archive)^[9]
Ryan – San Diego Air & Space Museum
Seversky – Cradle of Aviation Museum (digitized collections on New York Heritage)
Shorts – some destroyed (Sunderland drawings) (Ref)
SIAI-Marchetti – Savoia Marchetti Historical Group (Ref, Ref, Ref)
Sikorsky – Sikorsky Archives (moved to Sacred Heart University) (Ref, Ref)
Sopwith – some with Royal Air Force Museum
Spartan – some with Connor Flynn (C3 drawings) (Ref), some with Kevin Gray, some with Tulsa Air and Space Museum (12W drawings), possibly some with EAA Aviation Museum (NP drawings)
Stout – The Henry Ford
St. Louis Aircraft Company – Washington University (as part of St. Louis Car Company records, limited number digitized at Missouri Over There)
Supermarine – Royal Air Force Museum
Taylorcraft – Rodman Public Library (photographs, digitized collections on Alliance Memory)
Valtion Lentokonetehdas – Finnish Air Force Museum
Vickers – Brooklands Museum
Vought – University of Texas at Dallas, San Diego Air & Space Museum (Jay Miller personal collection)^[10]^[11]
WACO – National Air and Space Museum (order form), National Archives, Wright State University (Clayton J. Brukner personal collection)
Westland – many destroyed by flood
Wright – Wright State University, Museum of Flight (Ref), Library of Congress (Wilbur and Orville personal collection), Franklin Institute

Parts Suppliers

Allison – Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust Allison Branch (digitized collections at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis), Indiana Historical Society (Wanda Lou Willis personal collection)
Bendix – Baltimore Museum of Industry (radio only, via Bendix Radio Foundation)
BMW – BMW Group Archive
Collins – Collins Aerospace Museum
Dowty – Gloucestershire Heritage Hub (via Dowty Heritage)
Edo – Cradle of Aviation Museum^[12]^[13], some with Kenmore Air Harbor (Ref)
Elliot Brothers – Museum of the History of Science at Oxford (Rochester Avionics Archive, also includes artifacts from GEC, Marconi, and BAE Systems)
Flight Refueling – some with Royal Air Force Museum
Goodrich – San Diego Air & Space Museum
Honeywell – Minnesota Historical Society
Ken Royce – Antique Aircraft Association (Ref)
Link – Binghamton University (personal papers of Ed Link)
Napier – Napier Power Heritage Trust (photographs, papers, stored with Institution of Mechanical Engineers) (Ref)
Packard – destroyed (Ref)
Raytheon – still with company (Ref)
Safran – Safran Heritage Center
Sperry – destroyed^[14] (some at Cradle of Aviation Museum (digitized collections on New York Heritage), some at Hagley Museum and Library)
Wright – Wright State University

Maps

Air Navigation Maps/Airways Maps – 1924-1935
Army Air Force Aeronautical Charts
Army Air Force Cloth Maps
Sectional Aeronautical Charts – 1930-1971
Target Maps and Approach Charts

Organizations

58th Bomb Wing – New England Air Museum
306th Bomb Group – Abilene Christian University (Ref, Ref)
607 Squadron – North East Aircraft Museum
Aeronautics Research Council – The National Archives, Cranfield University (digitzed reports)
Aircraft Engine Historical Society: Document Collection Catalog – partially at University of Alabama in Huntsville
Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association – Hagley Museum and Library (photographs)
Army Air Forces – National Archives
Aviation Pioneers Association – Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
B-26 Marauder Historical Society – Pima Air and Space Museum (Ref) and University of Akron
Bureau of Aeronautics – National Archives
China-Burma-India Hump Pilots Association – Museum of Aviation (Ref)
Civil Air Patrol – Colonel Louisa S. Morse Center (digitized collections) (Ref)
Civil Air Transport/Air America – University of Texas at Dallas
Civil Aviation Medical Association – Wright State University
Ercoupe Owners Club – Bowling Green State University
Federal Aviation Administration – National Archives
International Advisory Group Air Navigation Services – Digital Aviation Library (English) (German)
Manufacturers Aircraft Association – University of Wyoming
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics – University of Florida (via Internet Archive), Cranfield University (digitzed reports)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA CRGIS
Naval Air Station Atlanta – Atlanta Air & Space Museum
Ninth Air Force Association – University of Akron
Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization – Georgia State University (Ref)
Quonset Point Naval Air Station – Providence College
Royal Aircraft Establishment – Farnborough Air Sciences Trust
Royal Aeronautical Society – National Aerospace Library (Catalogue) (Heritage Collection) (Ref)
Second Air Division – Norfolk Record Office (digitized collections)
Tallmantz Aviation – Margaret Herrick Library (Ref)
United States Pilots Association – State Historical Society of Missouri
Women Airforce Service Pilots – Texas Woman's University

Organization Newsletters

For a list of Air Force Base Newspapers, see a dedicated page

99 News Magazine – Ninety-Nines newsletter, 1929-present
AAHS eNewsletter/AAHS FlightLine – American Aviation Historical Society newsletter, 2009-present
AAHS Journal (Paid Access) – American Aviation Historical Society journal, 2003-present
AeROHRcrafter – Rohr Aircraft company newsletter, 1943-1957
AllisoNews – Allison company newsletter, 1941-1971
Air Commando Journal – Air Commando Association newsletter, 2011-present
Air Commerce Bulletin/Civil Aeronautics Journal – Civil Aeronautics Authority newsletter, 1929-1952
Air Corps News Letter – United States Army Air Corps/Force newsletter, 1918-1944
Air Force/Air Force and Space Digest/Air Force Magazine/Air & Space Forces Magazine – United States Army Air Force/Air Force Association periodical, 1943-2005
Air Force Civil Engineer/Engineering & Services Quarterly – Air Force civil engineer newsletter, 1960-1988? (1972-1986)
Air Force Journal of Logistics – United States Air Force periodical, 1980-2009
Air Line Pilot – Air Line Pilots Association, 1932-1961
Air Reserve Forces Review/The Air Reservist – Air Force Reserve/Air National Guard magazine, 1950-1976
Air University Quarterly Review/Air & Space Power Journal – United States Air Force periodical, 1947-present
Aircrafter – Candian Car and Foundry company newsletter, 1944-1945 (Thunder Bay Museum)
Approach – Naval Safety Center magazine, 1956-2021 (1956-2000, 2004-2021)
Army Aviation Magazine – United States Army aviation magazine, 1954-present (United States Army Aviation Museum)
Aviation Safety Digest – Civil Aviation Authority of Australia, 1953-1991
Brief – 7th Army Air Force/Army Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Area newsletter, 1944-1945
Cloudbuster – U.S. Navy Pre-Flight School Chapel Hill, North Carolina newspaper, 1942-1945
Code One – Lockheed newsletter, 1986-2015
Commanche Flyer (Paid Access) – International Commanche Society, 2004-present
Convairiety – Convair newsletter, 1948-1961
Crash Comment/Flight Comment – Royal Canadian Air Force Accident Investigation Branch/Directorate of Flight Safety newsletter, 1949-1961
Der Condor – Focke-Wulf newsletter, 1938-1944 (1938-1940, 1941-1944)
Drew Field Echoes – Drew Field newspaper, 1942-1944
FAA Aviation News/FAA Safety Briefing – 1961-present (1962-1976, 2008-present)
FAA World – Federal Aviation Administration employee newsletter, 1974-1986
Fifinella Gazette/The Avenger – Women Air Force Service Pilots/Avenger Field newsletters, 1943
Fighter Line – 301st Fighter Wing newsletter, 2010-2016
Flying Safety/Aerospace Safety – Air Force Safety Center magazine, 1948-2009
Front and Center – Travis Air Force Base newsletter, 1940s (Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center, ref)
Frontier News – Frontier Airlines newsletter, 1966-1986
General Dynamics News – General Dynamics newsletter, 1961-1971
General Dynamics World – General Dynamics newsletter, 1971-1992
Global Ranger – Travis Air Force Base newspaper, 1966-1980s? (Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center, ref)
Grumman Plane News – Grumman company newsletter, 1970-1979
Grumman World – Grumman company newsletter, 1980-1994
Kaman Rotor Tips – Kaman company newsletter, 1960-1975
Mech – Naval Safety Center magazine, 1968-1999
Naval Aviation News – United States naval aviation newsletter, 1943-2007
Piedmonitor – Piedmont Airlines employee newsletter, 1945-1989
Plane Talk/Skyliner – Transcontinental Air Transport/Trans World Airliners newsletter, 1929-1989
RAAF News/Air Force News – Royal Australian Air Force newsletter (1960-1997, 1997-2020)
Republic Aviation News – Indiana Division of Republic Aviation employee newsletter, 1943-1945 (1943-1944, 1944-1945)
Sky Traffic – Embry-Riddle company newsletter, 1928-1929
Slug Sheet/Texans & Trojans/Skylines (Paid Access) – North American Trainer Association newsletter, 1986-present
Sunliner News – Frontier Airlines newsletter, 1951-1965
TAC Attack/Combat Edge – Tactical Air Command/Air Combat Command magazine, 1961-present
TARPA Topics/TWA Topics (Restricted Access) – TWA Active Retired Pilots Association newsletter, 1982-2017
Technical Data Digest – United States Army Air Corps/Force periodical, 1939-1952
The Air Power Historian/Aerospace Historian/Air Power History/Air & Space Power History (Partial Paid Access) – Air Force Historical Foundation magazine, 1954-present (1954-1965, 1965-1988, 1989-2020, 2000-present)
The Air Reservist/Citizen Airman – Air National Guard/Air Force Reserve/Air Force ROTC/Civil Air Patrol/Explorers, BSA magazine, 1952-2002 (1955-1984, 1985-2002)
The Faircrafter – Burlington, North Carolina Fairchild plant newsletter, 1943-1944 (State Archives of North Carolina, ref)
The Hillfielder/The Hilltop Times – Hill Air Force Base newspaper, 1943-2006 (Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref)
The Quonset Scout – Quonset Point Naval Air Station newspaper, 1941-1961
The Tailwind – Travis Air Force Base newspaper, 1974-present (Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center, ref)
Tyndall Target – Tyndall Field newspaper, 1942-1944
Viking Flyer – 934th Airlift Wing newsletter, 1993-present
Wingfoot Clan: Aircraft Edition – Goodyear Aircraft/Aerospace Corporation newsletter, 1941-1969
Wings – Australian Air Force Association, 2019-2021

Periodicals

Industry Yearbooks

Jane's Aviation Review
Jeppesen Sanderson Aviation Yearbook
The Aviation Yearbook (ACCA/AIAA)
United States Aircraft, Missiles, and Spacecraft (NAEC)

Aerial Age Weekly – ceased publication in 1923
Aero Digest – ceased publication in 1956
Aeroplane – 1912-1919
Air Travel News – 1927-1930
Aircraft Journal – 1919-1920
Aviation Week & Space Technology (Paid Access) (Free Access, 1916-1968) – known under different names before 1959
Experimenter – EAA publication
Flight International (old webpage) (new webpage) – website known as Flight Global
L'Aerophile – official publication of the Aéro-Club de France, 1893-1947
Midwest Flyer – 2006-present
Planes/Aerospace – official publication of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America/Aircraft Industries Association of America, September 1944-Fall 1980
Popular Aviation/Flying – publication changed name in 1942
Popular Mechanics – not aviation focused, but still carries many articles about aviation
Soaring – gliding magazine (1937-1967)
Sport Aviation (Paid Access) – EAA publication
Sportsman Pilot – magazine published by Jack Cox, 1981-1996, incomplete (Ref)
The Aircraft Yearbook – publication of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce of America/Aircraft Industries Association of America/Aerospace Industries Association of America, 1919-1970
U.S. Air Service – Air Service Clubs Association/independent publication, 1919-1956
Vintage Airplane (Paid Access) – publication of the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association, 1972-2017

University Holdings

Purdue University – multiple personal collections, including those of Amelia Earhart and Neil Armstrong
University of Oklahoma – 4 personal collections
University of Wyoming – multiple personal collections, including two related to Republic Aviation and Roscoe Turner's personal collection
Wright State University – large number of various aviation collections, many personal collections

Other

A Flying History – personal photographic collection of British Overseas Airways Corporation pilot Peter Keating (ref)
A Guide to Documentary Sources – list of primary sources related to United States Air Force history
A. J. Jackson Aviation Collection – personal photographic collection of A. J. Jackson
AAFRadio: Maintenance Center – list of digitized documents, many only partial, related to U.S. Army Air Force radios
Aerospace Research Central – collection of professional aerospace papers
AirCorps Library (Paid Access) – collection of digitized documents hosted by AirCorps Aviation
Airline Timetable Images – collection of digitized airline timetables
Air Force History Index.org – search engine for the Air Force Historical Research Agency holdings
Air University Library Index to Military Perodicals – database of periodicals provided by the United States Air Force Air University
AirWingMedia – offers digitized copies of Airpower and Wings magazines
American Library: Newsletters – list of mostly bomb group historical association newsletters related to the 2nd Air Division in England during World War II, limited number of links to digitized examples
Army Air Forces Collection – collection of digitized U.S. Army Air Forces material, mostly class books
Aviation Archives – blog run by a former McDonnell Aircraft engineer that regularly posts various digitized documents
Aviation Safety and Security Archives – collection of documents about aviation safety and secruity at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Chic's Website – digitized personal collection of Australian pilot Captain Charles 'Chic' Eather (Ret.)
Connecting the Nation: Australia's Aviation Heritage – index of aviation collections in Australia with a limited number of digitized documents
Contrails – collection of reports from the Wright Aircraft Development Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology
DepartedFlights.com – collection of airline route maps, timetables, terminal diagrams, seating charts, and advertisements
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University: Archives and Special Collections – list of locations of aviation archives, not the archives of ERAU
Japan Air Raids – collection of digitized documents related to the aerial bombing of Japan in World War II
National Transportation Library: Investigations of Aircraft Accidents, 1934-1965 – digitized collection of aircraft accident investigations from 1934 to 1965
OldManuals.com – defunct website selling World War II American aircraft manuals, likely the source of some of the CDs of manuals now available for sale on eBay
Periscope Films – digitization company with a large collection of original films on various subjects, significant portion of collection is aviation, YouTube channel has many samples
RC Bookcase – collection of digitized vintage model airplane magazines, some overlap with non-model aviation
RC Library – collection of digitized vintage model airplane magazines, some overlap with non-model aviation
Stuffinder – collection of vintage aviation material available for sale, includes scanned manuals
Wartime Press – collection of digitized World War II materials, includes significant number of aviation related publications
Wingleader Archive – collection of World War II aviation photographs, includes collections of Chaz Bowyer, Chris Ellis, Chris Goss, Philip Moyes and Andy Saunders (ref)
WWII Aircraft Performance – collection of digitized World War II aircraft performance data

References

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↑ "Consolidator". Internet Archive. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
↑ "Consolidated Aircraft Field Service Bulletins Vol 1 1942 43". Internet Archive. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
↑ "Consairway Flight Deck 1943 44". Internet Archive. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
↑ "Exhibits". Hiller Aviation Museum. Archived from the original on 14 November 2011. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
↑ "McDonnell Airscoop Newsletters, 1963-1966 (S0758)". State Historical Society of Missouri. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
↑ "Plane Talk 1943 1944". Internet Archive. 28 January 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
↑ Ben Guttery, email message to webmaster, 28 March 2024
↑ Jim Hodgson, Facebook comment, 27 March 2024
↑ Jim Hodgson, Facebook comment, 7 March 2016
↑ Ben Guttery, email message to webmaster, 28 March 2024
↑ Joshua Stoff, Facebook comment, 8 March 2016
↑ Joshua Stoff, email message to webmaster, 27 March 2024
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 * Commanche Flyer ([http://www.comancheflyers.com/comanche-flyer-magazine/comanche-flyer-magazine-archive Paid Access]) – International Commanche Society, 2004-present
 * [http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/CONVAIR/browse/?fq=str_title_serial:Convairiety Convairiety] – Convair newsletter, 1948-1961
+* [http://www.avialogs.com/newspapers/crash-comment Crash Comment/Flight Comment] – Royal Canadian Air Force Accident Investigation Branch/Directorate of Flight Safety newsletter, 1949-1961
 * Der Condor – Focke-Wulf newsletter, 1938-1944 ([http://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?query=idn%3D018131034 1938-1940], [http://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?query=idn%3D021499454 1941-1944])
 * [http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00076231/00050 Drew Field Echoes] – Drew Field newspaper, 1942-1944

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Introduction

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Manuals

Specific Aircraft

Manufacturers

Parts Suppliers

Maps

Organizations

Organization Newsletters

Periodicals

University Holdings

Other

References

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