National Air Races Merch

Every September in Reno, Nevada Host the National Air Races

This stylish throwback design celebrates the 1932 National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio. During the event, aviation hero Jimmy Doolittle won the Thompson Trophy in his GeeBee R-1, the same type plane featured in this design.

Print from the 1933 National Air Races held in Los Angeles, California during the month of July.

Poster for the 10th Annual National Air Races at Curtiss-Reynolds Airport in Chicago, 1930.

The 1936 National Air Races (NAR) were held in Los Angeles, CA September 4-8. Two significant events that year were the introduction of the Caudron-Renault racer by Michel Detroyat of France, and the winning of the Bendix cross-country competition by two women, Register pilots Louise Thaden and Blanche Wilcox Noyes.

Poster from the National Air Races held in Cleveland, Ohio in September of 1937.

The National Air Races finally came to Cleveland Municipal (now Cleveland-Hopkins International) Airport in 1929. Local businessmen Louis W. Greve and Frederick C. Crawford played a big role in bringing the event to Cleveland. Both men were involved in the aviation industry -- then thriving in Cleveland -- with Greve's Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company making landing gears and Crawford's Thompson Products (later TRW) involved in the production of aircraft engine valves.

1930 print promoting the National Air Races held in Chicago in late August and early September.

A poster advertising the 1933 National Air Races at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport. Los Angeles, 1933.

1938 print from the National Air Races held in Cleveland, Ohio.