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  • Altimeter Indicator

    Note: This item is currently in storage. This altimeter indicator belonged to the donor's uncle, William Thaw, who flew with the Lafayette Escadrille. The item reads "Improved Altitude Scale Aneroid, Compensated."Donated by Ms. Sylvia S. Donohue. Click here to return to the Featured Accessions

  • YF-102 Turbofan Engine Blade

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This blade came from the first YF-102/ALF 502 turbofan engine that Lycoming designed and manufactured. The YF-102 engine was used on the Northrop A-9, which lost the close air support aircraft competition to the Fairchild Republic A-10.Donated by Mr. Gordon T.

  • Wind Generator

    Note: This item is currently in storage. This is a Brevette type generator that was used on early aircraft to furnish power for radio operation. It was wind-driven and was most commonly mounted externally on the aircraft landing gear strut.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Packard 1A-2025 Water Manifold

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This type of water manifold was used on R-1, R-4 and R-5 U.S. Army Air Service racing aircraft during the 1920s. These Army aircraft competed for the Pulitzer Trophy.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Packard 1A-2025

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This Packard 1A-2025 engine (S/N 10) was used on the Verville-Packard R-1 racer, which won the first Pulitzer Speed Trophy on Nov. 20, 1920, with a speed of 178 mph.Transferred from Mather Air Force Base.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Hispano-Suiza V Type

    Note: This item is currently in storage. The French Hispano-Suiza (S/N 94757) V type, 8-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine was built in 1918 in the United States by the Wright-Martin Co. The first successful aircraft cannon -- a 37mm M3 cannon -- was mounted in the vee for firing through the hollow

  • Heath Henderson Engine

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The Heath Henderson engine was developed from the air-cooled Henderson motorcycle and used as a power plant for the Heath line of kit-built, and later certified, aircraft.Donated by Mr. Bruce Bissonette.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Q-2 Firebee

    Note: This item is currently in storage.First flying in 1951, this jet-powered Q-2 Firebee aerial target with a high subsonic speed was used in ground-to-air and air-to-air gunnery training. Transferred from the 49th Civil Engineering Squadron.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Lavochkin La-17M Target Drone

    Note: This item is currently in storage.In 1950 the Soviet Air Force began development of a radio-controlled aerial target for training fighter pilots. Production of the Lavochkin La-17 target drone began in 1954. Over the next 40 years, the La-17 incorporated various improvements, including an

  • GAM-67 Crossbow

    Note: This item is currently in storage. The GAM-67 (Guided Air Missile) was a pilotless drone initially designed as a high altitude target. The Crossbow was powered by a Continental J69 gas turbine and could achieve speeds approaching Mach I. The Crossbow was also capable of being ground launched