I’ve scoured the web for hours to identify the below patch, but to no avail. I was wondering if any of you knew which aircraft or unit this insignia might represent.
My Dad picked this up years ago at a gun show, and believes it is “authentic”, but we don’t know the specifics of the patch. Supposedly it came from a bomber jacket.
If it is associated with a particular aircraft, I’d like to build it for him.
Any help or insight you can provide is appreciated.
Here is a link that shows this patch as a AAF Bombardier School
http://members.aol.com/brimiljeep/WebPages/SquadronPatchAAFPage.html
Good luck!
Rod
Wow, that was quick! Thank you. I’ll look into what planes they might have had at the bombardier school, and see if anything might make a nice build.
Thank you.
Here is a link to another site that might be a starting point for group names that you could google and get possible pictures of planes.
I do know that my Grandfather worked with the training wing for gunners and they used the same planes taht were out in the field although with different markings.
(wish I had pictures to share)
Good luck
Some of the quick information I was able to pull up, thanks to your great lead, was that AT-11’s and even B-18A’s were used as trainers at Carlsbad AAF. I’ve then found that there is a 1/72 AT-11 available, and a nice 1/48 AT-11 resin conversion kit available from Lone Star Models. I haven’t found anything on B-18 availability, but I’ve seen some 1/72 versions somewhere before.
I think it would be cool to attach the patch to a nice base and include an aircraft or two. If I can pull it off before December, it might make a nice Xmas present next year.
Thanks again.
mucker,
In case you’re interested, there are a few photos of the AT-11 available on ebay. I won’t post links to specific auctions, in case that’s against board rules. But the first one I found after doing a search is a nice clear closeup of the nose, forward fuselage, engine and some landing gear detail. It’s b&w, of course, so of limited use for color information, but good for detail.
And if anybody knows of an AT-7 Navigator kit, I’d be very interested. My father trained in one down at Selman Field in Louisiana during WW2.
Thanks alumni72, I’ll check that out.
If the AT-7 is the same as the model 18, C-45 etc, I have found that PM Models makes these kits in 1/72, and Battel Axe makes them in 1/48.
Wow and at $125 bucks to. Me thinks id put that little gem away for a long time. And is it painted leather or stiched.
I’ll have to check. I had my dad scan it and e-mail it to me, so I don’t have the actual patch in my possesion. Seeing as it is valuable, I probably wouldn’t attach it to a base permanently.
Wow - only $85 for the Selman Field Navigator’s School patch. What a bargain! I’ll look in my father’s old footlocker in the attic first.
There’s some guy on eBay who does replica patches for a whole lot less. I got a repro of the USS Macon squadron patch for less than $10, I believe. It’s pretty accurate, too.