Jacket, Flying, Type G-1, United States Navy, Vice Admiral Walter Carter, Jr.
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Since 1938 the Type G-1 style flight jacket has been regulation issue to aviators of the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The jacket was officially standardized in 1940 as the M-422A and then designated at the Type G-1 in 1947.
This jacket dons the insignia of VF-14 Tophatters, one of the oldest squadrons in the United States Navy. The jacket was worn by the donor Vice Admiral Walter Carter Jr. He was promoted in 2015 as the Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. As a combat aviator, he flew in 125 combat missions in American military deployments including Bosnia, Kuwait, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. In addition, Adm. Carter was the last commander of U.S.S. Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier in the United States fleet
Display Status
This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.
Object Details
Country of Origin
United States of America
Type
PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Flight Clothing
Manufacturer
Schott Bros. Inc. Physical Description
United States Navy (USN) Type G-1 flying jacket; seal brown goatskin waist length jacket; knit wool cuffs and waist; mouton fur collar; two lower patch pockets with button flaps; zipper down front; brown nylon lining; shoulder pleats at shoulders; light brown leather attached name tag and aviator wings in gold on left breast; black embossed letter text "CDR TED CARTER, SLAPSHOT" below aviator wings; VF-14 tooled leather insignia on right breast, black letter embossed text "FIGHTING FOURTEEN, TOPHATTERS" and black top hat depicted; white cloth manufacturers label on inside back collar with black letter text (see Marks for full text).
Dimensions
Clothing: 78.7 × 48.3 × 7.6cm (2 ft. 7 in. × 1 ft. 7 in. × 3 in.) Materials
Leather
Nylon
Plastic
Aluminum
Steel
Coating
Brass Inventory Number
A20150572000
Credit Line
Gift of Vice-Admiral Walter “Slapshot” Carter, Jr.
Data Source
National Air and Space Museum
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