David Myhra is a U.S.-based author and researcher, actively publishing from 1980 to the present; he has published more than 130+ books, and dozens of eBooks & articles on varied historical topics, from Soviet-era aircraft carriers and Japanese battleships to X-planes and World War II German flying machines. His primary focus was the later; most of his books cover individual aircraft types, both paper-projects and full production warplanes, and their designers - many he personally interviewed. The Museum holds his collection.

3293 Cubic Feet The collection was donated to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, containing 11 plastic tubs of research materials, numerous original & reprint photographs, and other miscellaneous aviation/space-related ephemera. The collection was organized by the donor, arranged by topic within large tubs. These were replaced with archival boxes and labeled & numbered to correspond with this finding guide. The overall collection contains 19 file boxes of archival materials including documents, photographs, CD-ROMs, and computer disks. Select photos are being digitized from the collection and can be found on the Museum's Flickr site. This is a nineteen-box collection, each box measuring 16 ½" x 13" x 10". The collection has been organized into series.

The collection has been processed and is open for research with no restrictions.