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  • Q-1 Electric Blanket

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This bag was originally designed to keep casualties warm during World War II. The donor reported that an alternative use was keeping the engines warm on P-51 aircraft.Donated by Mr. William J. Waldron.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index. 

  • 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