A collection of material from 1914-1966 relating to aviation in Australia which includes log books, correspondence, press cuttings, maps, photographs together with first flight covers and other philatelic material. Included are papers relating to various people involved with aviation such as Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm, John S.W. Stannage, P.G. Taylor, T. Pethybridge and to various airline companies such as Australian National Airways Limited, Imperial Airways Limited, and Qantas Empire Airways. There is also a considerable amount of printed material, mainly airline brochures, schedules, pamphlets, etc. Also includes the 2005 addition of a NASA certificate authenticating spaceflight aboard the shuttle Discovery (26 July - 8 August 2005) of cloth wings of aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and signed by Australian-born astronaut, Andy Thomas.
