AV. Aviation

Newspaper clippings about and a program from the Belmont Park International Air Tournament in 1910

Loose-leaf catalog from Smithsonian SITES exhibit on "Early Flight"

This collection consists of scrapbooks, news clippings, and magazines that Helen Cavanagh collected. The primary topic areas of these materials are: Charles Lindbergh, John F. Kennedy, the Dayton blizzard of 1978, and the Space Program. The Space Program materials largely relate to Neil Armstrong and the 1969 moon landing; however, there is also information on the topics of John Glenn and the Challenger explosion.

The Robert L. Cavanagh Aviation Collection contains extensive research on a variety of aircraft, including detailed information on the Boeing P-12. The collection also contains a wide variety of aircraft photographs, along with negatives, slides, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photograph albums.

Information concerning the celebrations of the Centennial of Flight, 2003.

The collection consists of one issue of National Geographic (Sept. 1934) with an article by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, signed by both Anne and Charles Lindbergh.

This small collection contains two items. The first is a letter from Charles Lindbergh to Charles I. Barron, M.D., expressing his appreciation to Dr. Barron for permitting him to undergo decompression tests in Lockheed Aircraft Company's high-altitude chamber. The second item is Lindbergh's electrocardiogram from a Flight Personnel Examination.

Photographs and newspapers concerning Charlie Taylor.