Artifact Collection

Dole Air Race Artifacts

Dole Air Race Artifacts

On August 8, 1927, 15 aircraft drew starting positions for the Dole Air Race from Oakland, California to Honolulu, Hawaii. By August 19, five aircraft were no longer competing, five crashed, three disappeared, and ten participants were dead. This is the story of the Dole Air Race. The San Diego Air and Space Museum has in in collection artifacts from this fateful race, a few of which are highlighted here.

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Doolittle “Mark Twain” Bombsight

Doolittle “Mark Twain” Bombsight

To celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the famous Doolittle Raid, we are spotlighting an artifact that has a unique story that tells much about the state of the Second World War when the raid on Tokyo occurred.

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Explorer II Fabric

Explorer II Fabric

On Nov. 11, 1935, Captain Albert W. Stevens and Captain Orvil A. Anderson broke the world altitude record when they reached 72,395 feet above the earth in the Explorer II balloon. The Museum's Curatorial collection holds a very unique artifact that tells the story of this audacious feat.

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Fokker Glass Plate Negatives

Fokker Glass Plate Negatives

Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker (1890 – 1939) was a Dutch aircraft designer known for producing some of the fastest and most stable aircraft in the world. Many of Germany’s World War I aces flew in his aircraft. He remained a prolific designer in the postwar years in Europe and the United States. Fokker was inducted into the International Aerospace Hall of Fame in 1970. Two glass negatives depicting Fokker were donated to SDASM from the Ohio History Connection (formerly the Ohio Historical Society) in 2021.

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Frederick Newman Albums

Frederick Newman Albums

The San Diego Air and Space Museum holds in its archives four photograph albums (AL4-A, -B, -C and AL38) belonging to and created by Frederick William Newman. These albums contain photographs showing the career of Newman in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1917 to 1947.  They highlight his time fighting in Iraq in the 1920s, as well as his service in the Second World War. 

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