Donating Items

The Museum Wish List

As we build our collection and museum exhibits, we are looking for the following items:

Books, Documents, and Printed Materials:

• Juptner's Civil Aviation Series, volumes 1-10
• Any books by R.E.G. Davies, Ernest Gann, or Antoine de St. Exupery
• Any books, manuals or documents relating to civil or commercial aviation
• Aviation-related childrens' books and comic books
• Postcards depicting aircraft and/or airports
• Christmas or Holiday cards ilustrating commercial or civil aviation
• Travel brochures
• Time tables for air travel
• Aviation advertisements
• First flight / day airmail covers
• Houston telephone books from 1925-1959
• Aviation, maps, charts and instrument approach plates
• Pilot logbooks and pilot licenses
• Houston Chronicle or Houston Post stories related to aviation
• Books related to art deco and art moderne architecture
• Books related to airort architecture
• Any plans or blueprints of airport buildings prior to 1970
• Any letters, documents or items related to Joseph Finger, Howard Hughes, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Jimmy Weddell, Earl McKaughn, Glenn McCarthy, J.D. Reed, King Cruse, or Cliff Hyde.

Aircraft & Aircraft Equipment:

• Any aircraft, in any condition
• Aircraft tug (vintage or recent)
• Aircraft boarding stairs
• Tractor trailer with flatbed lowboy trailer
• Aircraft cockpits, yokes, radios, avionics, instruments, gauges, seats, parts, etc.
• Airplane propellers for display, in any condition
• Aircraft engines for display, in any condition
• Aircraft work stands, radial engine stands, etc.
• Parts for Lockheed L-18 Lodestar, Douglas DC-3, or Beech 18
• Parts for Wright 1820 engines, Pratt & Whitney R-985 and 1830 engines
• Passenger seats and aircraft interiors
• Link Trainer or other flight simulators

Objects & Artifacts:

• Equipment relating to aviation including meteorology, communications, and air traffic control
• Mannequins (male and female)
• Signs and posters from airports, terminals, ticket counters, travel agencies, fixed base operators, flight schools, aviation maintenance facilities, and aircraft hangars
• Travel agent-style display models
• Hardware associated with uniforms including wings and hat emblems
• Old aviation toys
• Aviation art prints and original paintings
• Aviation-related autographs
• Airplane models
• Lighted airway or airport rotating beacon

Furniture:

• Exhibit cases
• Easels
• Tables, chairs, desks
• Bookcases
• Filing cabinets
• telephone booth (vintage)
• telephones (vintage)
• Typewriters (vintage)
• Luggage scales
• Clocks (vintage)

Photographs & Multimedia:

• Any photographs or photographic negatives which show airplanes and/or airports
• Any home movies or videos which show airplanes and/or airports
• Video camera
• Digital camera
• Audio Equipment
• Large-screen television
• Desktop Computers, Laptop Computers, Photocopier, Laser Printer