Items from Box 5, Folder 2 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, circa 1939-1943. Contains assorted administrative notes related to the Lear Avia Corporation, including a departmental organization chart, a parts list, pages from "Aero…
Items from Box 12, Folder 13 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, circa 1939-1944. Contains a Learadio dealer franchise agreement form (blank) and a page from Appendix B of a Lear Avia contract. Two total documents.
Items from Box 12, Folder 14 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, December 1939 to August 1944. Contains documents related to the corporate name change from Lear Developments to Lear Avia, including certified and Photostat copies of the…
Items from Box 26, Folder 9 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, circa 1939-1944. Contains a hand-drawn sketch, diagrams, and documents related to the Learmatic and Learmatic Gyromatic Radio Compass. Six total documents.
Photograph of William P. Lear (at head of table) and members of the executive board at Lear Avia's Dayton Airport facility, Ohio, circa 1940. Other identified individuals are Rober L. Drake, Alice Miller, Arling "Arlie" Ryberg, and Waldorf Astoria…
Photograph of the assembly line at a Lear Avia facility, Vandalia, Ohio, circa 1940. Male and female employees work on device components at long work tables.Inscription: "Lear Avia Vandalia factory. 1940."Inscription on verso: "Assembly. Handwriting…
Photograph of pilot Betsy Ross using a Learadio portable receiver in the cockpit of her Taylorcraft aircraft, August 20, 1940. An accompanying press release describes Ross's recent flight from Harrisburg Pennsylvania State Airport, noted as the first…
Items from Box 11, Folder 9 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, December 1940 to June 1942. Contains patent disbursement statements for Lear Avia. 103 total documents.
Photograph album containing photographs of Lear Avia staff, equipment, facilities, circa 1940-1943. Images depict employees at work in various settings at the company's Piqua (Ohio) and New York branches, such as a research laboratory, assembly and…
Items from Box 18, Folder 1 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, circa 1940-1943. Contains a patent application and other documents related to the Radio Automatic Guidance System (Case 31-3) and Loop Antenna System (Can. 8-1), as well as a…