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National Air and Space Museum Archives
OX5 Aviation Pioneers Materials
Summary
- Collection ID:
- NASM.2025.0001
- Dates:
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1981
- Languages:
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English.
- Physical Description:
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.01 Cubic feet1 folder
- Repository:
A banquet program, souvenir program, and photograph related to the OX5 Aviation Pioneers circa 1981.
Scope and Contents
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of material related OX5 Aviation Pioneers circa the early 1980s. Items include a 1981 banquet program signed by Anna Chennault with an accompanying photograph of Anna Chennault and a OX5 souvenir program containing the 1981 Hall of Fame Inductees with sigatures from Mae Post (Wiley Post's widow) and Fred Austin.
Arrangement
Arrangement
Itemized.
Biographical / Historical
Biographical / Historical
The OX5 Aviation Pioneers is a nonprofit organization founded in 1955 to honor pilots, mechanics, and aviation enthusiasts who flew or worked with the Curtiss OX-5 engine. Originally established as the OX5 Club of America in Pennsylvania, the organization continues to preserve and promote the history of airmen and their accomplishments and contributions to the development of civil aviation.
Administration
Author
Amara Pugens
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Anonymous, Gift, 2024, NASM.2025.0001
Processing Information
Arranged, described, and encoded by Amara Pugens, 2024.
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Use
Material is subject to Smithsonian Terms of Use. Should you wish to use NASM material in any medium, please submit an Application for Permission to Reproduce NASM Material, available at Permissions Requests.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Preferred Citation
OX5 Aviation Pioneers Materials, NASM.2025.0001, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Keywords
| Keyword Terms | Keyword Types | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Aeronautics | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| Women in aeronautics | Topical | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
| OX5 Aviation Pioneers. | Corporate Name | Search Smithsonian Collections | Search ArchiveGrid |
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