California Pilot Pins and Buttons
Description: A vintage-style circular design featuring a classic retro biplane airplane soaring through the sky in front of a massive sunburst sunset. With palm tree silhouettes at the bottom, this clean graphic emblem perfectly captures the golden age of aviation and adventurous summer travel vibes. Complete with the text "SKY HIGH", "SUMMER FLIGHT", and the "AG&CO. COLLECTIVE" signature. Ideal for laptops, water bottles, and aviation fans.
Description: Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) was a United States airline headquartered in San Diego, California that operated from 1949 to 1988. It was the first large discount airline in the United States. PSA called itself “The World’s Friendliest Airline” and painted a smile on the nose of its airplanes, known as the PSA Grinningbirds. The Los Angeles Times called PSA “practically the unofficial flag carrier airline of California for almost 40 years” as the airline initially operated as an intrastate airline wholly within the state of California. This strategy which avoided the steep costs from federal regulation would later serve as the model for Southwest Airlines, doing in Texas what PSA had done in California.
Description: Retro style graphic tee featuring large, bold LAX text and airport scenery graphics of the very recognizable airport tower & restaurant, as well as a landing jet airliner and California palm trees. A stylish tee to wear while traveling to or from LAX. Great gift shirt for pilots, avgeeks, aviation enthusiasts, LAX frequent travelers, airline airport spotters, LAX spotters, KLAX personnel, 737 fans, retro & vintage art fans, aircrew, flight attendants, air traffic controllers, California & LA residents.
Description: Los Angeles Airways (LAA) was a helicopter airline founded in October 1947 in Westchester, California, which offered service to regional airports throughout Southern California. LAA began with airmail service on October 1, 1947, followed by scheduled passenger service in November 1954, making it the world's first scheduled helicopter airline. The main hub was Los Angeles International Airport where passengers were flown to and from local area heliports, including several resorts, hotels, and theme parks. Service was later expanded to Ontario and San Bernardino, allowing the fleet to grow with four new Sikorsky S-61's in March 1962. Despite LAA's popularity, making a profit became increasingly difficult, ceased operations in 1971.
Description: John Clifford Garrett founded a company in Los Angeles in 1936 which came to be known as Garrett AiResearch or simply AiResearch. The company was first named Aircraft Tool and Supply Company, but in early 1937, it was renamed Garrett Supply Company. In 1939, it became AiResearch and shortly thereafter AiResearch Manufacturing Company, which then became a division within the Garrett Corporation. AiResearch initially focused on the creating of pressurized flight equipment for passenger aircraft, but later got heavily into the development of turbo systems, including complete turboprop and turbofan aircraft engines.
