Aviator Collection

Amelia Earhart, US aviation pioneer
Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), American aviation pioneer. Earhart was the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air as a passenger (1928), fly solo across the Atlantic

Amelia Earhart, pioneering aviator, with plane
Amelia Mary Earhart (1897-1937), American pioneering aviator, standing in front of her plane. Date: circa 1930s

Howard Hughes, US aviation pioneer
Howard Hughes (1905-1976), American aviation pioneer. Hughes was 16 when his mother died. When his father died unexpectedly two years later

Amy Johnson - pioneering English pilot
Amy Johnson (later Mollison) CBE (1903-1941) - pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia

Douglas Bader - Flying Ace of WW2
Group Captain Sir Douglas Robert Steuart Bader (1910-1982) - Royal Air Force flying ace during the Second World War. A postcard produced for the (Royal)

World War II themed Coca-Cola advertisement poster, 1941
COCA-COLA AD, 1941. World War II themed Coca-Cola advertisement poster, 1941

Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941) - pioneering English female pilot - pictured standing in front of her Gipsy Moth just before she undertook a 19-day solo flight to Australia

Harriet Quimby getting ready for flight 1912
Harriet Quimby (1875 1912), American airwoman and a movie screenwriter. In 1911, she was awarded a U.S. pilots certificate by the Aero Club of America

Mitsubishi A6M Zero aircraft, World War 2 C016 / 3818
Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zero). US Air Force photograph of a test flight of a captured Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 (Zero). This aircraft was being refined

Amy Johnson Says Goodbye
Amy Johnson (Mrs Mollison) leaves Lympne in Hearts Content on her record attempt to South America. Here she kisses her husband goodbye. Date: 6 February 1933

Cabral and Coutinho fly from Portugal to Brazil
Gabo Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral - Portuguese aviators who flew from Lisbon, Portugal to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1922 in a Fairey IIIB Float plane- the first time this feat was achieved

Manfred Von Richthofen
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN Known as the " Red Baron", " Red Devil" and " Red Knight of Germany" ; he was Germanys greatest WWI pilot

First airmail letter delivered, Windsor Castle
The first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1926
French aviator Lieutenant Collot successfully flies his biplane beneath the Tour Eiffel, but in a moment he will hit a cable and crash fatally

Tiger Moth Biplane, Wanaka, South Island, New Zealand

Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John Clempert
Undated coloured poster for Siberian death defier and Aviator baffling John Clempert featuring illustrations of his tricks and performances. HPF/5B/18

Markham / Percival Gull
Beryl Markham, English pioneer aviator, and her Percival Gull: she was the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from London to North America

Soviet Pe-2 bomber and pilot, 1944
Soviet Pe-2 bomber and pilot. The pilot, Grigory Pasynkov, held the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Photographed in December 1944, in the St Petersburg region of Russia

Richthofen and members of the Jagdstaffel
Captain Baron von Richthofen, German flying ace, responsible for bringing down 80 Allied planes during World War One, pictured here with members of Jagdstaffel 5 around a Fokker plane after his 62nd

Doolittle / Gee Bee Plane
Captain James Doolittle, American aviator, and his Gee Bee plane

Spelterini over Alps
Swiss aviator Eduard Spelterini achieves the first flight over the Swiss Alps in his balloon Wega

Aviator John Alcock 1919
Captain in the Royal Air Force, he was the pilot of the first direct transatlantic flight in June 1919 with navigator Arthur Whitten Brown

Bleriot crosses the Channel
First air crossing of the English Channel by Louis Bleriot : over the open sea

Page from The Bystander, 18th April 1928, featuring an article called Flying for Women by Lady (Abe) Bailey, who is pictured top left as the champion woman aviator who flies a D.H. Moth

Otto Lilienthal makes one of his last flights, 1896 (1956). Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) German gliding pioneer and aeronautical inventor, flying one of his gliders

Beryl Markham (1902 1986), British-born Kenyan author, aviator, adventurer, and racehorse trainer. Photographed here, just after flying from Abingdon to Cape Breton Island

Wright Flyer A ( Shorts)
A Shorts Wright Flyer a Biplane Flying at Low-Level in 1910 Date: 1910

The Santos Dumont Air-ship rounding the Eiffel Tower, on October 19th 1901, (c1910). Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont (1873-1932) in his airship (dirigible)

Oswald Boelcke, German aviator
Oswald Boelcke (1891 1916), German flying ace of World War One. Boelcke is considered the father of the German fighter air force, and first to formalize rules of air fighting

To the quiet French peasants pursuing their work in the field Mr Wilbur Wright appeared almost as a wizard, when first the famous American aeroplanes began his flights near Pau they quickly ceased

Newspaper Story by Toby Neal in Shropshire Star 10 Octob?
Newspaper Story by Toby Neal in Shropshire Star 10 October 2006 Issue Page 8, Ernest Maund Early Aviator / Pilot from Craven Arms, Shropshire, UK

Monkey making flight at Bath Aviation Meeting 1912
At the first Bath Aviation Meeting, Little Nat (monkey) made an ascent with Mr. Hucks, a well known airman at the time, after being up a short time the pilot had to come down owing to engine

Boeing 247 airliner, 1930s
Boeing 247 airliner. Passengers in the 1930s boarding a United Airlines and National Air Transport aircraft that is also being used as a US Mail flight (AM17 Express, shown on the tail of the plane)

Gliders and Aoraki / Mt Cook, Mackenzie Country, South Island, New Zealand

Ernest Maund Early Aviator / Pilot with His Monoplane in?
Ernest Maund Early Aviator / Pilot with His Monoplane in Craven Arms, Shropshire, UK

Louis Bleriot about to make the first successful flight across the English Channel, 1909. French aviator Bleriot (1872-1936)

British pilot Captain Albert Ball posing with trophies from his 43rd victory, 1917. Captain Ball was one of Britains most prolific fighter aces of the First World War

Sketch cover featuring Amelia Earhart by Olive Snell
Portrait of pioneering American aviator, Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937) by society portraitist Olive Snell on the front cover of The Sketch magazine. Date: 1928

A shooter signals the launch of an F / A-18 Super Hornet
Persian Gulf, February 7, 2008 - A shooter on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, gives the signal for an F/A-18E Super Hornet to launch off ship

A women to attempt Atlantic flight. Mrs Luba Phillips, who is to attempt a non stop flight from New York to London and Rome. 18 June 1927

Wright Model A aircraft flight, 1909 C017 / 7837
Wright Model A aircraft flight, 1909. US aviation pioneer Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) taking off in a Wright Model A, one of several aircraft built by him and his brother Orville Wright (1871-1948)

Robertsons Minerve balloon, 1804
Robertsons Minerve balloon. Historical artwork of La Minerve, an extravagant balloon design proposed in 1804 by the French engineer E. G. Robertson

US Civil War observation balloon, 19th century artwork. The balloon, near Gaines Mill, Virginia, USA, is being inflated by gas being piped through tubes from the containers at left

Alcock and Brown - Aviators
British aviators John Alcock (1892 - 1919) and Arthur Whitten Brown (1886 1948) made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in June 1919.[1] They flew a modified World War I Vickers Vimy bomber

Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor with the airmail
The aviator Gustav Hamel arriving at Windsor from Hendon on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor

Female Aviator with flying helmet and goggles

Gustav Hamels plane ready to leave Hendon for Windsor
Gustav Hamels aeroplane ready to leave Hendon Aerodrome for Windsor on the very first airmail flight. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

First World War surveillance kite. US soldier being lifted up by a surveillance kite during the First World War (1914-1918)

French Air Force Poster
Poster advertising for pilots to join the French Air Force from the age of 17 years

Ant. Saint-Exupery
SAINT-EXUPERY SAINT-EXUPERY French aviator and writer. Author of novels and essays, most with an aviation theme

Flight / Flying Girl
Pretty young aviatrix in a belted leather flight coat, leather gauntlets, helmet & goggles

Amy Johnson, pilot, c1930s (1936)
Amy Johnson, British aviator, c1920s-c1930s (1936). Johnson created a new record for a solo flight from London to Cape Town, completing the trip in 4 days, 6 hours and 54 minutes

DOUGLAS CORRIGAN (1907-1995). Nicknamed Wrong Way. American aviator. Photographed next to his 1929 model Curtiss Robin, c1938

An F-16 Fighting Falcon prepares to refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker
July 20, 2007 - An F-16 Fighting Falcon prepares to refuel from a KC-135 Stratotanker at Red Flag-Alaska

RAF fighter pilot of 602 Squadron at dispersal - playing chess while waiting for the call to scramble. Perranporth, Cornwall, 1943 eTopFoto

The aviator Photograph by Harry Whittier Frees, c1914
FREES: KITTENS, c1914. The aviator Photograph by Harry Whittier Frees, c1914

German aeronautical engineer. One of Otto Lilenthals early glider flights. Photograph, c1895
OTTO LILIENTHAL (1848-1896). German aeronautical engineer. One of Otto Lilenthals early glider flights. Photograph, c1895

Otto Lilienthal and glider, 1895. Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896) was a German aviation pioneer, who became known as the Glider King for his many experiments with gliders

Girls waving at an early Aviator flying overhead
The Aviator is the only man girls look up to A very beautifully drawn and interesting postcard, with strong leaning toward the Womens Suffrage movement during this period in the United Kingdom

(1890-1973). American aviator. Photographed near Toul, France, in 1918
EDWARD V. RICKENBACKER (1890-1973). American aviator. Photographed near Toul, France, in 1918

Ilyushin and test pilot Kokkinaki, 1942
Soviet aircraft designer Sergei Ilyushin (centre right) and test pilot Vladimir Kokkinaki (left, in overalls), talking with a group of soldiers in front of an aircraft during World War II

Otto Schmidt, Soviet Arctic explorer
Otto Yulievich Schmidt (left, 1891-1956), Soviet Arctic explorer and geophysicist, greeting one of the rescue pilots (right) during the Chelyuskin expedition to the Arctic

CHARLES LINDBERGH (1902-1974). American aviator. Lindbergh Atop the World. Oil painting by Theodore LaBonte, 1928

Godwins Project
FRANCIS GODWIN An ingenious method of flying by harnessing trained birds, who would tow the intrepid aviator even so far as the Moon

Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter
The aviator Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter which he himself will transport by air to Windsor. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

Gustav Hamel signing receipt for mail, Hendon
The aviator Gustav Hamel in the cockpit of his aeroplane, signing the official receipt for the mail, just before setting out from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor on the very first airmail flight

Stainforth / Supermarine
Flight Lieutenant George Hedley Stainforth, British aviator, and the Supermarine S6B in which he exceeded the 400mph speed record in 1931

Amy Johnson / Cig Card
Amy Johnson (Mrs Mollison), pioneer British aviator who made several record flights - seen here in 1935

Heath / Avro Avian Plane
Mary Lady Heath, Irish aviator, and her Avro Avian: she was the first woman to fly solo from England to South Africa

Balbo / Savoia-Marchetti
General Italo Balbo, Italian aviator, and his Savoia-Marchetti

Samuel Cody / 1913
Colonel Samuel Cody, English aviator

A pilot preparing the FMS on the flight deck of a Boeing 747-400 overhead NYC (in the background) for a landing at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Model release not signed

Sir Alan Cobham with his de Havilland DH. 60 Moth biplane
Sir Alan John Cobham (18941973) - English aviation pioneer standing in front of his de Havilland DH.60 Moth G-EBKT, a light-weight, two-place, single-engine

Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Batten
Percival P3 Gull Six, G-ADPR, Jean, used by Jean Gardner Batten, CBE, OSC (19091982), - a New Zealand aviatrix - on two record-breaking flights in the 1930s. Date: circa 1937

A group onboard sea sled Miss England, 1922. Creator: Kirk & Sons of Cowes
Claude Grahame-White in his experimental 45-foot power sledge, Miss England, 3 Sept 1922. Miss England was built of wood by the Cowes firm of S.E. Saunders in 1921

Harry N. Atwood, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Harry N. Atwood, between c1910 and c1915. Shows aviator Harry Nelson Atwood (1884-1967)

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"Aviator: Pioneers of the Sky and Legends in Flight" Amelia Earhart, a trailblazing US aviation pioneer, soared through the skies with determination and courage. Amy Johnson, an English pilot who broke barriers as a pioneering female aviator, stood tall amidst her remarkable achievements. Howard Hughes, another American aviation pioneer, left an indelible mark on the industry with his innovative spirit and daring escapades. Captured in a timeless black-and-white photo, Amelia Earhart gazes at her plane - a symbol of her unwavering passion for flying. Amy Johnson CBE (1903-1941), captured in a photograph standing proudly next to an aircraft that embodies her groundbreaking journey. A vintage snapshot reveals Amelia Earhart during her training days in Boston's skies back in 1926 - a moment frozen in time. In 1941, even amidst World War II chaos, Coca-Cola released an advertisement poster paying tribute to aviators' bravery and resilience. The Mitsubishi A6M Zero aircraft became synonymous with World War II battles as it dominated the skies with its formidable presence. Bid farewell to Amy Johnson as she embarks on yet another awe-inspiring flight - leaving behind a legacy that will forever inspire future aviators. Douglas Bader emerged as one of WW2's most celebrated flying aces - his fearless spirit defying all odds both on land and up above the clouds. Cabral and Coutinho etched their names into history by successfully completing their epic flight from Portugal to Brazil - pushing boundaries never before imagined possible. Manfred Von Richthofen aka "The Red Baron, " epitomized aerial combat prowess during WWI - forever remembered for his unmatched skills and iconic red-painted aircraft.