Search Digital Records

• Subject > Women in aviation (remove)
• Format > photographic prints (remove)
• Format > press releases (remove)

Limit your search

• Mixed Materials (2)
• Still Image (2)

• photographic prints (4)
• press releases (4)

• In copyright (4)

• Women air pilots (4)
• Women in aviation (4)
• Lear Avia Corporation (3)
• Learadio (2)
• Aids to air navigation (1)
• British American Ambulance Corps (1)
• Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965 (1)
• Evans, Earl (1)
• Johnson, Miriam J. (1)
• Nesbitt, Sydney (1)
• Radio in aeronautics (1)
• Ross, Betsy (1)
• Thompson, Katherine Rawls, 1917-1982 (1)
• Van Ingen, H. Terrell (1)
• World War, 1939-1945 (1)

4 results

[William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, Box 27, Folder 16 - "Miriam Johnson pilots British American Ambulance Corps Learadio-equipped WACO on 3 month tour of US," 1941 February 24] (Item)

Items from Box 27, Folder 16 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, February 24, 1941. Contains a Lear Avia Corporation press release and photograph related to a British American Ambulance Corps (BAAC) flying tour, carried out by pilot Miriam Johnson, BAAC Vice President H. Terrell Van Ingen, and radio operator Earl Evans in a Lear-equipped Waco aircraft. The photograph depicts Johnson, Van…

[William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, Box 27, Folder 21 - "Miss Dickey Meyer joins Lear Avia as press liaison," 1941 April 2] (Item)

Items from Box 27, Folder 21 of the William P. and Moya Olsen Lear Papers, April 2, 1941. Contains a Lear Avia Corporation press release and photograph related to the hiring of Dickey Meyer as a press liaison. The photograph depicts Meyer in a flight helmet. Two total documents.

[Sydney Nesbitt presenting Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson] (Item)

Photograph of Sydney Nesbitt (left) presenting a Learadio Model APR-A portable receiver to Katherine Rawls Thompson, winner of the Alcazar Trophy Race, Miami, Florida, January 1941. An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps serviceman stands in the background. The accompanying Lear Avia press release describes the event. Thompson's first name is misspelled as "Catherine" in the press release.

[Betsy Ross using Learadio portable receiver] (Item)

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 light plane altitude flight ever recognized by the National Aeronautics Association. It also describes the Learadio receiver installed in Ross's…