Convair
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Convair General Dynamics Corporate Records
The Convair General Dynamics Corporate Records consists of around 150 boxes of various documents, booklets, plans, photographs, correspondence, and other administrative and facility papers relating to Fleet, Consolidated, Stinson, Consolidated Vultee, Convair, and, finally, General Dynamics in San Diego since 1935.
Convair/General Dynamic Atlas Image Collection
This collection documents the history of the Atlas Missile program at Convair/General Dynamics.
Convairiety Periodical Collection
This collection contains the full run of Convairiety, the company newsletter of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (Convair).
The Descriptive Finding Guide for John Ferguson Personal Papers
John Calvin Ferguson was a model builder in the 1960s at Ryan Aeronautics, Convair Division of General Dynamics Corporation and a plastic fabricator and machinist at Cubic Corporation.
Reuben H. Fleet Personal Papers
Reuben Hollis Fleet was the founder of the Consolidated Aircraft Company
General Dynamics Astronautics Special Collection
The paraphernalia of this collection comes from Stan Hodges, Art Director at Convair in the mid-1950s and 1960s. He designed many of the posters that were placed in the plant, as well as the General Dynamics sign.
General Dynamics/Convair Environmental Impact Report Collection
John R. Graves, Jr. Photo Collection
The majority of the collection contains approximately 400 photographs of various sizes. There are also some negatives. The photographs are from the San Diego US Army Photographic Air Wing during World War II, and combat scenes from the Pacific Islands. There are some graphic photographs of death and surgery within the collection.
Jorgensen Family Personal Papers
This collection contains material related to the lives of Morten Jorgensen Sr. and Jr. Mort Sr. worked at Ostergaard Aircraft as a general aircraft mechanic, while his son worked at Convair and served as surgical support on recovery carriers for the Apollo Space Program.
Manuscript Collection
The collection contains 92 manuscripts, written/compiled between the early twentieth century and early twenty-first century. These manuscripts range from television and movie scripts to flight logs, accident report, personal recollections, and biographies/memoirs. Subjects include (but are not limited to) early flight, World War I, World War II, women avioators, air ships, and flight testing.