Display Status:

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Collection Item Summary:

Northwestern Aeronautical Corporation employees work on construction of Northwestern license-built Waco CG-13 cargo gliders; circa 1942-1943. Here a large group of employees on work stands work together to hold up the right wing of a glider, probably to fit it to the fuselage.

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Aircraft industry
  • Aeronautics, Military
  • Aeronautics
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Airplanes

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

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photographer

Unknown

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Date

Circa 1942-1945

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-9A07620

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