Dayton-Wright Airplane Company
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Wilbur F. H. Bigelow, Sr., Dayton Wright Company Collection (SC-347)
Collection
Identifier: SC-347
Scope and Contents
Wilbur F. H. Bigelow, Sr., was a foreman in the Mill department of Dayton-Wright Airplane Company factory at Moraine (Plant 1), during World War I. The collection consists primarily of 28 photographs, most of which relate to Bigelow’s work at the factory, including DH-4 aircraft, employees and factory scenes, air demonstration shows, and aerial photographs captured during a test flight. Photos unrelated to Dayton-Wright Airplane include: one photo depicts the Wright Brothers’ Homecoming in...
Dates:
1909-1941; Majority of material found within 1917-1919
Found in:
Special Collections
Dayton-Wright Airplane Company Badge Pin #15046
Collection
Identifier: SC-371
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a single metal badge/pin (believed to be copper). The front of the pin includes an image of a biplane, the text "The Dayton Wright Airplane Co. Dayton Ohio," and the number 15046 (presumably an employee identification number of some kind). The item measures approximately 1-1/2 inches wide by 1-1/8 inches tall.
Dates:
circa 1918
Found in:
Special Collections
Dayton-Wright Airplane Company Photographs
Collection
Identifier: MS-152
Abstract
The collection contains 156 large format glass plate negatives and 63 nitrate negatives depicting factory workers, interior and exterior plant views, airplane assembly, and completed airplanes from a Dayton manufacturer of World War I aircraft.
Dates:
1918-1922; Majority of material found in 1918
Found in:
Special Collections
Gress Collection, Dayton-Wright Airplane Company (SC-369)
Collection
Identifier: SC-369
Abstract
The collection consists of a single piece of linen wing fabric from Dayton-Wright Airplane Company, where Albert V. Gress Sr. worked in 1918.
Dates:
circa 1918
Found in:
Special Collections
Hugh S. Lippman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-370
Abstract
The collection includes biographical and career information about Mr. Lippman; business correspondence; technical reports from Materiel Division, Aeronautical Systems Division, and the Aircraft Laboratory; staff rosters and flow charts for Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; records from litigation cases involving aircraft component patents; correspondence between the Dayton-Wright Company and the Manufacturers Aircraft Association, and photographs from McCook and Wright Fields. Most items are...
Dates:
1923-1989; Majority of material found within 1923-1967
Found in:
Special Collections