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Series I: Correspondence
Folder 1 – Jack Hospers Personal
1. Application for enlistment into the Civil Air Patrol.
2. Notes for talk for the Bridgeport Lion’s Club, Sept. 2, 1942
3. Photographer’s ID card.
4. FCC restricted radiotelephone operator permit, April 28, 1948.v
5. Bureau of Aeronautics application for proposed foreign visit to France and Tunisia, July 1953.
6. National Defense Program fingerprint card.
Folder 2 – Jack Hospers Personal Correspondence
1. Assorted typewritten and handwritten personal correspondence.
Folder 3 – Ephemera
1. “A and R” newsletter addressing propaganda.
2. Basegram for SECNAV to ALNAV, September 3, 1942.
3. Civil Aeronautics Bulletin No. 23, Civil Pilot Training Manual, September 1941.
4. Program for Texas Jet Age Conference, November 26-27, 1956. (John J. Hospers speaker at 10AM, “The Jet Age”).
5. “Description of Accident, May 1, 1944” drawing.
6. Flying certificates.
7. Invitations.
8. Navy Aeronautics Officer’s Questionnaire.
9. “Navy in Your Future” booklet.
A Letter from President Roosevelt to Members of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences on the Institute’s Tenth Anniversary, 1942.”
11. Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft greeting card.
12. Brochure for “Sikorsky Amphibion (sic) S-39 1931 Model.”
13. Two newspaper clippings, 1941 and 1949.
Folder 4 – USS Midway
1. Communication to CO of USS Midway from Hospers requesting permission to accompany part of a “shakedown cruise,” September 1945.
2. Communications regarding social invitations, March/April 1946.
3. June 1946 Field Service Report.
4. USS Midway Cold Weather Cruise Report, November 6, 1946.
Folder 5 – Corsair Biplane 1930
1. “Notes of the Corsair Seaplane at Felixstone, 1933.”
Folder 6 – F4U Corsair
1. Memorandum from R.R. Vought to J.J. Hospers, September 22, 1942.
2. Letter from J.J. Hospers to George B. Barnes, ACMM, October 14, 1942.
3. Letter from J.J. Hospers to Major E.W. Dichman, October 14, 1942.
4. Telegram from C.J. McCarthy to J.M. Barr, November 2, 1942.
Folder 7 – F7U Cutlass
1. Memo from J.J. Hospers to F.O. Detweiler, May 13, 1952.
2. Memo from T.A. Said to Jack Hospers, February 5, 1954.
Folder 8 – OS2U/SBU2
1. Chance Vought Engineering Department Advance Instructions re: SBU-1, December 17, 1935.
2. Memo from S.J. Zeigler, Jr. to Inspector of Naval Aircraftre: SBU-2, February 9, 1937.
3. “News Letter – Confidential – to be destroyed after reading,” June 7, 1940.
4. Telegram from E.E. Wilson to J. J. Hospers, et al, October 31.
5. Letter from J.J. Hospers to Ensign Albert Hospers, November 6, 1942.
Series II: Notebook
Folder 9 – Personal Logbook, 1928-1931
1. One daily logbook for Hospers’s work at Chance Vought on the O3U-2, the Navy’s original 1930 “Corsair.” Includes explanation of duties and serial numbers of airframes
Series III: Reports
Folder 3 – Miscellaneous documents re Project Joe No. 2, 1945