Object Details
- Subject of
- Boeing Corporation, American, founded 1916
- Used by
- Tuskegee Institute, American, founded 1881
- Subject of
- Tuskegee Airmen, 1941 - 1946
- Maycie Herrington, American, 1918 - 2016
- Paul Adams, American, 1920 - 2013
- Charles E. McGee, American, 1919 - 2022
- Nancy Leftenant-Colon, American, born 1920
- Wilbur Mason, American, 1924 - 2016
- Samuel Wesley Henderson, American, 1921 - 2016
- Cyril O. Bryon, American, 1920 - 2015
- George M. Boyd, American, 1926 - 2018
- William J. Childs, American, 1923 - 2013
- Alexander Jefferson, American, 1921 - 2022
- LeRoy Eley, American, 1927 - 2012
- O. Oliver Goodall, American, 1922 - 2010
- Charles A. Lane, American, 1925 - 2013
- Thurston L. Gaines Jr., American, 1922 - 2016
- Lee A. Archer Jr., American, 1919 - 2010
- Earl Martin, American, 1924 - 2019
- Franklin J. Macon, American, 1923 - 2020
- Rusty Burns, American, 1925 - 2022
- Asa D. Herring Jr., American, 1926 - 2022
- James E. Randall, American, 1926 - 2019
- William H. Holloman III, American, 1924 - 2010
- Robert Holts, American, 1924 - 2021
- Bev Dunjill, American, 1927 - 2013
- Leonard Hall, American, 1926 - 2013
- Fitzroy Newsum, American, 1918 - 2013
- James Harvey, American, born 1923
- Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, American, 1922 - 2016
- Samuel C. Hunter Jr., American, 1919 - 2013
- Leo R. Gray, American, 1924 - 2016
- Quentin Smith, American, 1918 - 2013
- Oscar C. Gadson Jr., American, 1919 - 2021
- James C. Warren, American, 1923 - 2014
- Robert Ashby, American, 1926 - 2021
- Claude R. Platte Jr., American, 1921 - 2013
- Milton Williams Jr., American, 1922 - 2017
- Caption
- A vintage, open-cockpit biplane—one used at Alabama’s renowned Tuskegee Institute to train African American pilots for Army Air Corps service during World War II.
- Description
- The body of the PT-13D Stearman Kaydet aircraft is painted blue and the wings are painted yellow. The tail is yellow with red and white stripes. The numbers "18303" are white and located on the left and right sides of fuselage. "Spirit of Tuskegee" is printed in red and located on the left and right sides of engine cowl. There are two stars located on either side of the top wing. The stars are white within a black circle. Within the white stars are red circles. On the cargo cover are the signatures of 36 former Tuskegee Airmen.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- ca. 1944
- Object number
- 2011.82.1-.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- training aircraft
- Medium
- steel, aluminum, copper alloy, wood, polyester, rubber, plastic
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (2011.82.1): 114 × 386 × 300 in. (289.6 × 980.4 × 762 cm)
- H x W x D (2011.82.2 baggage claim door): 21 1/2 × 30 3/4 × 2 3/4 in. (54.6 × 78.1 × 7 cm)
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Vehicles
- Exhibition
- Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: The Era of Segregation, 1876-1968
- On View
- NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Concourse 2, C 2053
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Aeronautics
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Military
- Tuskegee Airmen
- World War II
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2011.82.1-.2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5e994f4e9-bef9-41b4-86d9-a2b0ce43f9fc
