Keeping Aviation History Alive
●FREE SHIPPING on orders of two or more relic prints to the same address – mix or match.
●We can also drop-ship to anyone and include a greeting from you. An early aviation collectible from the Smithsonian – a gift they won’t soon forget!
America’s first pilots took to the air in fragile aircraft made of wood, wire and fabric. In those early days of flight, linen or muslin was used to cover the wings of aircraft. The original wing fabric from seven famous Smithsonian aircraft is now available here.
We are keeping aviation history alive by offering four-square-inch sections of the original fabric from aircraft now in the permanent collection of the National Air and Space Museum. The fabric was preserved during restorations by the Smithsonian and is included with each of our museum-quality relic prints – along with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by an officer of the National Air and Space Museum.
One of our 15″ x 20″ relic prints features the original fabric from a Wright brother’s biplane – the 1911 Wright Vin Fiz – famous as the first to fly coast-to-coast with 70 landings and 12 crashes en route from New York to California. Another of the relic prints includes the wing fabric from the Douglas World Cruiser – a U.S. Army Air Service aircraft that made the first around the world flight in 1924. Read the amazing stories of these seven “aeroplanes” and the remarkable men who flew them.
We invite you to step back in time and own a piece of American aviation history – instead of seeing it from behind the velvet rope in a museum.
●All proceeds from this website are funding CEILING AND VISIBILITY UNLIMITED – a weekend aviation camp for at-risk kids.
