Loening, Grover 1888-1976 creator mixed material monographic eng 25,800 72 34.6 Correspondence; manuscripts of books, articles, and speeches; and subject files, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, photographs, drawings, blueprints, and printed material documenting Loening's career in aviation. Includes material on his studies at Columbia University, employment at the Wright Aeronautical Corporation (chief engineer, 1913-1914), service in the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aviation Section, work at the Sturtevant Aeroplane Company, and establishment of the Grover Loening Aircraft Company. Other papers relate to his activities as an aviation consultant to the federal government and to private industry, particularly his service on the War Production Board, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, President's Air Policy Commission, and National Air Museum advisory board and his involvement with All American Aviation, Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, New York Airways, Pan American Airways Corporation, and Platt-LePage Aircraft Corporation. Other topics include the flights of Charles A. Lindbergh, Richard Evelyn Byrd's first Antarctic expedition, and helicopter design and production. Correspondents include Winthrop W. Aldrich, Vincent Astor, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Ira Eaker, Harry Hopkins, Joseph P. Kennedy, Andrew W. Mellon, William Mitchell, Eddie Rickenbacker, Winthrop Rockefeller, Igor Ivan Sikorsky, Harold S. Vanderbilt, and Orville and Wilbur Wright. Open to research. Duplicate photographs transferred to Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. Sound recording transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. Aviation consultant, engineer, author, and aircraft manufacturer. Died 1976. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101 Aldrich, Winthrop W. (Winthrop Williams) 1885-1974 Correspondence Astor, Vincent 1891-1959 Correspondence Byrd, Richard Evelyn 1888-1957 Correspondence Eaker, Ira 1896-1987 Correspondence Hopkins, Harry L. (Harry Lloyd) 1890-1946 Correspondence Kennedy, Joseph P. (Joseph Patrick) 1888-1969 Correspondence Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus) 1902-1974 Mellon, Andrew W. (Andrew William) 1855-1937 Correspondence Mitchell, William 1879-1936 Correspondence Rickenbacker, Eddie 1890-1973 Correspondence Rockefeller, Winthrop 1912-1973 Correspondence Sikorsky, Igor Ivan 1889-1972 Correspondence Vanderbilt, Harold S. (Harold Stirling) 1884-1970 Correspondence Wright, Wilbur 1867-1912 Correspondence Wright, Orville 1871-1948 Correspondence All American Aviation (Firm) Columbia University Students Curtiss-Wright Corporation. Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation. Grover Loening Aircraft Company. Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation. National Air Museum (U.S.) New York Airways, Inc. Pan American Airways Corporation. Platt-LePage Aircraft Corporation. Sturtevant Aeroplane Company. United States. Army. Signal Corps. Aviation Section. United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. United States. President's Air Policy Commission. United States. War Production Board. Wright Aeronautical Corporation. Aeronautics Aircraft industry United States Flight Helicopters Antarctica Discovery and exploration Aircraft manufacturers Authors Aviation consultants Engineers mm 79030437 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101.3 Open to research. DLC 790419 20260227111656.0 mm 79030437