California Aviation Objects

Vintage wood airplane part mold. Can be used as a sculpture or a shelf or table accessory. In original condition with visible wear consistent with its age and use. Several other mold...

AMBIANIC presents 1970s Mod Pop Art novelty airplane shaped phone in orange! Fabulous decor. Design by John Tyson 1968 by Northern Telecom Ltd. Made in Canada. 9 d x 9 w x 6 h Untest...

Streamline art deco potato-cooker by Raymond L. Barton for NA-MAC Products Corporation in Los Angeles. The Top-O-Stove Potato Baker is constructed of A...

A vintage original WWII Compreg constant speed wood and brass propeller blade by Engineering and Research Corporation (ERCO) of Riverdale, Maryland, circa 1940s. Due to the wartime shortage of aluminum, these were built primarily of hard wood. The ERCO propeller uses...

Heritage buckles eagle belt buckle solid brass USA. 3.38 x 2.13 x .13 Vintage buckle belt. Stamped on the back with makers info. Vintage wear. Preowned vintage condition. Refer to...

Beautiful and Minimalist marble ashtray. This piece of decor is unique and rare. A promotional for China Airlines, this piece transports to another era of airlines around the world. ...

1930s Art Deco airflame chrome airplane table cigarette lighter hatch opens. Chromed single propeller lighter black cockpit hatch. Turn the propeller...

Vintage airplane form cocktail metal shaker. The airplane is comprised of the body of the airplane that is the cocktail shaker with strainer and cap...

Superbly detailed Enola Gay B-29 Boeing super fortress LIMITED EDITION bomber model signed by pilot, Paul Tibbetts by Danbury Mint, circa 2000s. The Enola...

Wood airplane propeller made by Sensenich. The serial number dates this propeller to 1947. This would have been used on Aaronca, Piper and Taylorcraft pl...

Vintage Polaroid Land Model 95 Instant Camera In Case, The First Vintage collector Polaroid Land Original Instant Camera Model, Made In USA, Circa 19...

Superbly detailed Enola Gay B-29 Boeing super fortress bomber model signed by pilot, Paul Tibbetts, circa 2000s. The Enola Gay was named after Tibbets mother, Enola Gay Tibbets. On August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II, piloted by Tibbets and navigated by Dutch Van Kirk, the Enola Gay became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused the near-complete destruction of the city. As navigator, Van Kirk was charged with the location positioning and dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force. Tibbets enlisted in the United States Army in 1937 and qualified as a pilot in 1938. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he flew anti-submarine patrols over the Atlantic. In February 1942, he became the commanding officer of the 340th Bombardment Squadron of the 97th Bombardment Group, which was equipped with the Boeing B-17. In July 1942, the 97th became the first heavy bombardment group to be deployed as part of the Eighth Air Force, and Tibbets became deputy group commander. He flew the lead plane in the first American daylight heavy bomber mission against Occupied Europe on 17 August 1942, and the first American raid of more than 100 bombers in Europe on 9 October 1942. Tibbets was chosen to fly Major General Mark W. Clark and Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower to Gibraltar. After flying 43 combat missions, he became the assistant for bomber operations on the staff of the Twelfth Air Force. Tibbets returned to the United States in February 1943 to help with the development of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. In September 1944, he was appointed the commander of the 509th Composite Group, which would conduct the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, he participated in the Operation Crossroads nuclear weapon tests at Bikini Atoll in mid-1946, and was involved in the development of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet in the early 1950s. He commanded the 308th Bombardment Wing and 6th Air Division in the late 1950s, and was military attaché in India from 1964 to 1966. After leaving the Air Force in 1966, he worked for Executive Jet Aviation, serving on the founding board and as its president from 1976 until his retirement in 1987. He died on November 1, 2007 at the age of 92. The model comes with a certificate of Authentication (COA) from Danbury Mint...