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Fleet (Reuben Hollis) Personal Papers
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Box 01

Physical Description: Correspondence and Official Papers 1. General Correspondence (1918-1976) 2. Circular No. 188, Instruction for Final Payment of Officers Separated from the Service by Resignation or Discharge (1922) 3. General Correspondence – Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (1922-1936) 4. Correspondence, Alcoa, Future of Aluminum in Aircraft (1925) 5. Correspondence – Contracting for PT-1 (1925) 6. Correspondence – Secretary of the Treasury and Senator Fulbright – Capital Gains Tax Rate (1955) 7. Correspondence – Fleet Foundation Miscellaneous (1965-1974) Technical Reports and Special Studies 8. Curriculum of Instruction for Flying Schools (ca. 1918) 9. Congressional Aviation Acts (1926-1938) 10. Legislative Bill, Provide for the National Security and to Accelerate the Procurement of Implements of Air Power, and For Other Purposes (1946) Interviews, Recollections and Historical and Biographical Information 11. Culver Military Academy – the Early Years 12. R.H. Fleet Business Interests in State of Washington 13. R.H. Fleet Washington State National Guard Service (1911) 14. Washington State Legislature Service (1915) 15. R.H. Fleet @ North Island – Signal Corps Aviation School (1917) 16. Military Service Records (1918) 17. R.H. Fleet – Military Aviator (1917-1922) 18. Founding of Air Mail Service (1918)
 

Box 02

Physical Description: 1. Fleet Aircraft History 2. Gallaudet Manufacturing Company – Fleet Employment (1922) 3. Air Service/Bureau of Aeronautics Organization (1922-1923) 4. Sale of Dayton-Wright to Consolidated Aircraft (1923) 5. R.H. Fleet Consolidated Move to San Diego (1935) 6. Consolidated/Convair Executive Profiles 7. Consolidated Aircraft Historical Information 8. Consolidated Aircraft Company Aircraft Produced, by Model 9. Fort Forth Facility History (1940) 10. R.H. Fleet Sale of Consolidated (1941) 11. Reuben H. Fleet Chronologies 12. Reuben H. Fleet Political Views 13. R.H. Fleet Family Information 14. Obituary and Funeral Service (1975) Published Information and Articles 15. Air Service Aircraft Accepted, Delivered, On Order (1917-1919) 16. Performance Test of Fokker D-VIII (1921) 17. Aircraft Development since the Armistice, McCook Field (1923) 18. Fortification of Seward Harbor, D.C. Brownell (1935) 19. Address, Dedication of New Plant (San Diego), R.H. Fleet (1935) 20. Between World Wars, Balloon to the B-17, 1907-1939 (Undated) 21. The President’s Column, Consolidator – R.H. Fleet (1937-1938) 22. Planemaker Reuben Fleet, Time, The Weekly Magazine, 17 November 1941 23. Flying Doughboys, R.H. Fleet (1942) 24. Air-Borne Armies, R.H. Fleet (1942) 25. Aviation, Savior of Civilization, R.H. Fleet (1944) 26. Origin of Air Service Engineering (Early North Island History), G.C. Loening (1964) 27. McCook Field, Flight Test Center of the 20’s (1970) 28. Reuben Fleet Poetry (1974) Newspaper Articles 29. Fleet Involvement in Tucson (1941) 30. 50th Anniversary – Airmail Pilots (1968) 31. Fleet Named “Mr. San Diego” (1969) 32. Fleet Donates Montesano Park (1969) 33. Reuben Fleet Induction – Aviation Hall of Fame (1975) 34. Reuben Fleet Obituary (1975) 35. Reuben Fleet Estate Probate (1975) 36. 50th Anniversary – Fleet Move to San Diego (1985) 37. Other Reuben Fleet Recognition
 

Box 03

Physical Description: Box 3 Photographs 1. Montesano (Grey’s Harbor, Washington) 2. Culver Military Academy 3. Teacher Reuben Fleet with Class (1906) 4. Terah T. Maroney - Pilot of First Flights for Boeing and Fleet (ca. 1916) 5. Aero-Repair Department, North Island (ca. 1917) 6. George Hallett Technical Training Course at North Island (1917) 7. Curtiss JN-4D and Martin TT at North Island (ca. 1917) 8. Reuben Fleet at Merced, CA (1917) 9. Reuben Fleet – Air Mail Service (1918) 10. First Air Mail Service Collection (1918) 11. Dayton-Wright Company Executives H.E. Talbott, Charles F. Kettering, Harold E. Talbott Jr. (ca. 1919) 12. PT-1 With K.B. Wolfe, Carl Cover, Ralph Royce (1925) 13. McCook Field (1919-1922) 14. Colonel Thurman H. Bane, McCook Field (ca. 1920) 15. Early Parachute Tests at McCook Field 16. Launch Consolidated Commodore “Buenos Aires” (1928) 17. Curtis Flying Service (1929) 18. Fleet Aircraft Static Test (1929) 19. Lawrence Bell 20. Military Fleetster with F. Trubee Davison, Ira C. Eaker (1930) 21. Fleet Trainer – George Newman (1939) 22. Congressional Delegation - Aleutians in December 1941 ( Includes L.B. Johnson, A.L. Gates, L.E. Gehres and Others) 23. Reuben H. Fleet Portrait (c. 1970) 24. Omnimax Camera Shoot at Stonehenge “Capture the Sun” (1973) 25. Fleet Residences 26. Fleet Family Information 27. Miscellaneous Photographs Awards and Certificates 28. Appointment, United States Army, Captain, Air Service (1918) 29. Miscellaneous Awards and Certificates Biographical Information 30. Miscellaneous Biographical Information Items Removed from Collection Fleet Photos ( Located in Archives Library) 1. Reuben H. Fleet Photos 02-F-00130—02-F-00170 2. Reuben H. Fleet Photos 02-F-00171—02-F-00206 3. Reuben H. Fleet Photos 02-F-00207—02-F-00260 4. Reuben H. Fleet Photos 02-F-00261—02-F-00313
 

Born Digital Photos of Scrapbook

Physical Description: Born Digital files from 3 scrapbooks which belong to Reuben Fleet and were loaned to the Museum for Digitization by the California Revealed Program. They are on Archive.org.