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  • LITENING Pod

    Note: This item is currently in storage. The LITENING precision targeting pod system is operational with a variety of combat aircraft. It significantly increases the combat effectiveness of the aircraft during day, night and under-the-weather conditions in the attack of ground targets with a variety

  • J-58 Engine Starter Cart

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This engine starter cart was developed specifically for the SR-71 family of aircraft. It used two Buick V-8 racing car engines, linked together through a common gear box, to deliver power to the starter drive shaft of the aircraft engine. More than 600 hp from

  • B-24D Landing Gear Handle

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This item was recovered from the crash site of B-24D "Lady Be Good" by Col. (Ret.) Benjamin S. Lambeth Jr., then-vice commander (1959-1963) of the 7272nd Air Base Wing, Wheelus Air Base, Tripoli, Libya.Donated by Dr. Benjamin S. Lambeth Jr.Click here to return

  • Arado Data Plate

    Note: This item is currently in storage. The donor of this data plate was a B-24 tail gunner with the 739th Bomb Squadron. He acquired the data plate and other items from a Hungarian training field near Szekesfehervar, Hungary, near Lake Balaton during March and April 1945.Donated by Mr. William F.

  • Periscopic Sextant

    This item was designed to be used by navigators on C-123 aircraft.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.  Find Out More Related Fact Sheets

  • Experimental Navigational Chart Holder

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This case holds an experimental navigational chart holder Type ACIS/NCH-3, with four plotters in manila sleeves, and a handbook of instructions for the Type ACIS/NCH-3, dated April 1951, with a single page of errata. The item was manufactured by USAF

  • BC-608-A Contactor Unit Clock

    Note: This item is currently in storage.Installed in Allied aircraft as part of the Identification, Friend or Foe (IFF) program during World War II, this system would send a signal for 14 seconds of every minute over the pilot's radio to the ground station. The pilot could not speak while the unit

  • A-7 Octant

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This A-7 octant indicator was used by the donor while flying anti-submarine patrol as a navigator in B-17s and B-24s in the 6th Air Force.Donated by Lt. Col. (Ret.) David J. Snow.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index. 

  • A-3A Autopilot Bank-Climb Gyro Indicator

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This was an automatic pilot from Argonaut IV used by Gen. Hap Arnold for his flight to the Potsdam Conference in 1945. Argonaut IV was a four-engine Douglas C-54 transport aircraft.Donated by the Lower Merion School District.Click here to return to the

  • Troop Carrier Groups

    Troop Carrier/Tactical Airlift - front I backIX Troop Carrier Command Pathfinders9th Troop Carrier Squadron13th Troop Carrier Squadron15th Troop Carrier Squadron20th Troop Carrier Squadron32nd Troop Carrier Squadron33rd Troop Carrier Squadron39th Troop Carrier Squadron40th Troop Carrier Squadron40th