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040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dDLC
_edacs
072 7 _aS
_2lcmd
100 1 _aLoening, Grover,
_d1888-1976.
245 0 0 _aGrover Cleveland Loening papers,
_f1900-1975
_g(bulk 1913-1962).
300 _a25,800
_fitems.
300 _a72
_fcontainers.
300 _a34.6
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence; 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.
520 8 _aCorrespondents 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.
544 _3Duplicate photographs
_etransferred to
_aSmithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum.
544 _3Sound recording
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.
545 0 _aAviation consultant, engineer, author, and aircraft manufacturer. Died 1976.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101
600 1 0 _aAldrich, Winthrop W.
_q(Winthrop Williams),
_d1885-1974
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAstor, Vincent,
_d1891-1959
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aByrd, Richard Evelyn,
_d1888-1957
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEaker, Ira,
_d1896-1987
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHopkins, Harry L.
_q(Harry Lloyd),
_d1890-1946
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKennedy, Joseph P.
_q(Joseph Patrick),
_d1888-1969
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLindbergh, Charles A.
_q(Charles Augustus),
_d1902-1974.
600 1 0 _aMellon, Andrew W.
_q(Andrew William),
_d1855-1937
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMitchell, William,
_d1879-1936
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRickenbacker, Eddie,
_d1890-1973
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRockefeller, Winthrop,
_d1912-1973
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSikorsky, Igor Ivan,
_d1889-1972
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aVanderbilt, Harold S.
_q(Harold Stirling),
_d1884-1970
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWright, Wilbur,
_d1867-1912
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWright, Orville,
_d1871-1948
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aAll American Aviation (Firm)
610 2 0 _aColumbia University
_xStudents.
610 2 0 _aCurtiss-Wright Corporation.
610 2 0 _aFairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation.
610 2 0 _aGrover Loening Aircraft Company.
610 2 0 _aGrumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation.
610 2 0 _aNational Air Museum (U.S.)
610 2 0 _aNew York Airways, Inc.
610 2 0 _aPan American Airways Corporation.
610 2 0 _aPlatt-LePage Aircraft Corporation.
610 2 0 _aSturtevant Aeroplane Company.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bArmy.
_bSignal Corps.
_bAviation Section.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bNational Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bPresident's Air Policy Commission.
610 1 0 _aUnited States.
_bWar Production Board.
610 2 0 _aWright Aeronautical Corporation.
650 0 _aAeronautics.
650 0 _aAircraft industry
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aFlight.
650 0 _aHelicopters.
651 0 _aAntarctica
_zDiscovery and exploration.
656 7 _aAircraft manufacturers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aAuthors.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aAviation consultants.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aEngineers.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007101.3
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