What Aviation Stuff Do You Collect?

Nice collection Gordon,

I took these last night for uplaod today. Heres my small collection. Some were gifts and some are not.
I dunno if it would be good for me to get into it cause I wouldn't knew when to stop. I'm the guy that drived 4 hours to get a plane...i'd get too obsessed!
I am not really a collection or dicast models I prefer to make my own form plastic model kits like Revell, monogram etc. However I do plan to start collecting....Maybe.
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/models03.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/models02.jpg

Senga

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Originally Posted by nwafan20

Oh, that's neat!

But is that a Jet Blue A320 I see in the mix!?!?!?! :o

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Of course, I love airplanes, I got that from a Buddy of mine that works for Jetblue......

i have the LOT E170 (surprise, surprise). i like the model, its great!

I like almost any kind of airline stuff. I have Safety cards, Luggage tags, boarding passes, time tables, and a PSI indicator for Concorde G-BOAD. here are some pics of my models. I will post pics of other stuff soon.

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12016.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12005.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12017.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12021.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12004.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12020.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12026.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...ntdec12001.jpg

the LGA show:
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...1/nov11005.jpg

Another great collection to make us feel bad :)
You guys are making me want to get get into this.

Senga

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AA Galley Cart
http://thumb2.webshots.net/t/62/162/...2CjpUVt_th.jpg

http://thumb2.webshots.net/t/60/60/5...1ldwbqp_th.jpg

Concorde Galley Container
http://thumb2.webshots.net/t/52/52/7...2TRppGg_th.jpg

Virgin Atlantic Seats
http://thumb2.webshots.net/t/51/51/0...2lADFwI_th.jpg

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I've been skimming through the thread, but how did I miss your stuff I have no idea. Those things are priceless. Was Virgin nice or what, great story!

The Concorde seats are awesome!!
Everyone's stuff is really cool!


here are some of my other items:

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff001.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff002.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff003.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff004.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff005.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff006.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff007.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff008.jpg

http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l2...nestuff009.jpg

Thanks! Nice collections everyone!


I've looked but they never made a model of 9M-MRD, have they?

Here is what I found Mario:

http://www.wings900.com/modeldatabase/d ... 13236.html

http://www.wings900.com/modeldatabase/d ... 13334.html

http://www.wings900.com/modeldatabase/d ... 13894.html

I'll take a look for you at what stores have them in stock.

Found the Hogan from a great shop in Amsterdam, although the model is a little pricey.

http://www.aviationmegastore.com/?shopi ... &art=64653

Wow, didnt know Hogan made it. Looks great but you are right, thats a pretty penny for it.


Pretty interesting site you linked to, very informative!

Great stuff everyone! God how I love it all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And how I do love it. But not every single thing, it has to mean something to me: a place, time or era. A bunch of the memorabilia I did get first hand!

1:400 scale die-cast models, ticket jackets, wings, posters, ads, factory handouts, promos, signs, newspaper clips, books, photos, safety cards........

Your seeing some, but not all!

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/A...3_filtered.jpg The sign is from EWR...

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/C...9_filtered.jpg

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/A...0_filtered.jpg
1973 EWR, taken from the old tower, note twin towers in final stage of completion. Photo purchased 9/8/01!

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/B...5_filtered.jpg

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/C...1_filtered.jpg
Boeing SST on the bottom...

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o...s/DSC_0188.jpg

No school like the old school!

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/D...2_filtered.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/E...3_filtered.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/F...4_filtered.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/G...5_filtered.jpg
http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/H...6_filtered.jpg Newspaper clipping from the EWR 50th anniversary. Braniff International Calder 727 and Northwest Orient DC-10-40, terminal A.

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/I...3_filtered.jpg
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http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/CIMG5938.jpg

Wow, I skipped this thread for a few days and now I come back and see a museum-worth of stuff. Amazing.

Mario, that Concorde flask is the sexiest thing ever. Not to be a copycat or anything, but I'm on eBay looking for one now. I'm very tempted to spring for that Malaysia 777 also. :)

WOW is right. Anyone that believes our hobby is suspicious should have a look at this thread. Dam! Great stuff guys. As for me all I collect are photos I take, have some models, plastic and diecast, all military. Other than that I have a 2007 Thai planner and book given to me from a patient of mines family, and the Pan Am bag I got in the raffle at the NYCA picnic. Thanks agaim Phil and Mel. :D

Mario, that Concorde flask is the sexiest thing ever. Not to be a copycat or anything, but I'm on eBay looking for one now.

Thanks. It was a gift from a patient of mine who worked Concorde. Good luck finding it. In fact, next time I see them, will see if they have extras.

I'm very tempted to spring for that Malaysia 777 also

Me too but I just can't justify spending over $50 on a model. All that cash is now going to baby baby baby.

Anyone that believes our hobby is suspicious should have a look at this thread.

JZ1, you should have your PD contact read this thread. Great idea Scotty.



Finally, OMG, @ Flyingcolors, I was waiting for you to drop the gauntlet and show us your collection. I love it! What an awesome array! Just look at all the colors!

Mike can you adopt me so when you die you can will all of that to me? That collection is amazing!

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Thanks. It was a gift from a patient of mine who worked Concorde. Good luck finding it. In fact, next time I see them, will see if they have extras.

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I found three, a pewter one like yours and a different BA model wrapped in leather, and an Air France one. I bid on the all pewter one, which seems to be brand new and unblemished, from a seller in the UK. It ends tomorrow, should be about US$30 including shipping which seems reasonable to me...I can't wait. :)

Wow, great stuff! If you all put all of your collections together, you could open your own museum!!

everyone has got models... am i the only one with my own taxiway edge identifier light?

My friend has one, you can buy them at Sporty's.

EDIT: Sorry, you can get a taxiway LAMP: http://sportys.com/acb/showdetl.cfm?&di ... ct_id=6866

Where did you get the light?

matt:1, california:0

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everyone has got models... am i the only one with my own taxiway edge identifier light?

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A few years ago I almost bought a 747 door from eBay. I've been kicking myself ever since!

That Malaysian 777 is gorgeous. I'm tempted.

-Will

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everyone has got models... am i the only one with my own taxiway edge identifier light?

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No taxiway light, but packed away (I'll have to find it and post a photo at some point) is a genuine Strategic Air Command fence warning sign, including that famous phrase "Use of deadly force authorized."

moose that's awesome!! ::Drools::

I've got 2 taxiway lights - one that's been made into a lamp and has a short stem (the usual-looking dome style, not the Sporty's triangle ones), and one that came from LGA during some construction there back in the early 90s that has the full stem. That one will be lamped eventually, but it's just sitting in a closet for now.

Don't knock the taxiway light lamps, either. Put a 15-watt bulb in it, and you get a nice soft blue light that doesn't keep you up at night, yet will keep you from walking into things when you amble around for a 3am snack. Functional, pretty, aviation nerdly, what's not to love?

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Thanks. It was a gift from a patient of mine who worked Concorde. Good luck finding it. In fact, next time I see them, will see if they have extras.

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I found three, a pewter one like yours and a different BA model wrapped in leather, and an Air France one. I bid on the all pewter one, which seems to be brand new and unblemished, from a seller in the UK. It ends tomorrow, should be about US$30 including shipping which seems reasonable to me...I can't wait. :)

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The leather wrapped one is nice. My friend has it, got hers signed by Leslie Scott, the pilot who broke of Concorde's records and she uses it religiously, as its intended to be used.

check your PM

mateo, amen to that! long live the night-light!!!

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Originally Posted by T-Bird76

Mike can you adopt me so when you die you can will all of that to me? That collection is amazing!

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One more for you!

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/L_D20_4482.jpg

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Mike can you adopt me so when you die you can will all of that to me? That collection is amazing!

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Memorize this and its all yours!

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/K_D20_4479.jpg

Wow - an 880! How cool is that! Great picture Mike.

Many years ago, there was no net. Just books! And trips to the local library. That was all there was, its now all so quaint.

The Great Airliners series is only a few years old, but the rest is from the 70's.

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/M_D20_4489.jpg

No relationship to the current Airliners magazine...

http://www.nycaviation.com/hosting/N_D20_4492.jpg

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Wow - an 880! How cool is that! Great picture Mike.

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Its is, one of George Hamlin's (spelling?)

Wow! All this brings back memories. Between the ages of 13 and 17, from '78-'83 I'd go spotting at JFK (on the Worldport) every Saturday and Sunday. Eventually I worked up enough courage to hit all the airlines, when their respective airlplanes were in, and ask them to take me on tours of their cockpits and cabins. Sometimes they'd take me out on the apron and show me some skin. Along the ways I'd collect toy wings, real wings, airline issued postcards and the like. Further down I got into trading airline issued postcard with other spotters both from NYC and overseas. I also wrote the airlines (I got the address from my JP Airline book) and aircraft makers for souvenirs. It was unreal the amount of free photos, postcards, stickers, wings , etc that they sent you. The biggest kick was when I received stuff from airlines in the countries such Hang Kang Vietnam and Air Koryo (I can't spell its former name) and from airlines in Africa. I also managed to scarf some models from the Protestant church that used to occupy the middle ground at JFK. Some where in my cellar are boxes full of this stuff. Now, I buy Aeroclassics, Big Birds 1:400's and t-shirts from airline websites as well as Cafe Press.

Idlewild's story and FC's magazine cover bring back memories. In the mid-'70s, my parents were able to arrange for me to have a birthday party with AA at JFK, with cake at a gate area and a visit to the apron and a walk-through of an AA 747. A pic of my friends and I posing in front of those massive JT9Ds is occasionally my avatar here. Pre-deregulation (and pre-9/11), many airlines considered allowing this sort of a visit to be a good PR move that would encourage brand loyalty on the part of the kids' parents.

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My beautiful Song collection.. I've got TONS of stuff. I'll try and name them all:

Can opener, gummy luggage tags, beach bag, headphones, hat, wet nap, wine holder, balloons, shirts (i have MANY!), pens, key chain, Gemini Jet models, SkyMarks model, pens, gift bags, original luggage tags, newer luggage tags, CD holder, aircraft safety card, original menu (this was from a 2004 flight), newer menu (from early 2005), and utensils

I also saved my boarding passes and napkins from the flight. Gosh I love SONG.. i'm really gonna miss them.. :(

But as you can see, they're still flying!! :lol: