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Type A-2: Good Wear W535-ac-16160
This jacket is a reproduction of an Aero Leather Clothing Co. (of Beacon, N.Y.) A-2 contract from around 1941.
This jacket is quite unique in that it has a number of features from earlier Aero contracts, and is the first
contract to use some newer details.
The fit of this contract is a little trimmer than later jacket contracts they made, mostly in the back and shoulders, yet it is still comfortable.
One can see many officers from the Doolittle Raiders wearing this same contract, and General Claire Chennault wore one while serving in
China. His jacket is currently on display in the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.
Details of this contract:
- seal or russet horsehide
- comfortable torso and arms
- collar stand
- rectangular pocket body
- exposed-fold pocket body top corners
- dull reddish lining and mid-brown cotton thread color
- large ring snaps (first Aero contract to have them)
- mid-brown knits
- bell Talon zippers, or Crowns
This jacket looks smart and will have an ageless WWII profile.
This photograph below shows General Chennault's original Aero W535-ac-16160 Type A-2 flight jacket on display
in the Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
Shown in the link below is a photograph of Lt. Thomas C. Griffin's seal brown horsehide Aero W535-AC-16160 Type A-2
flight jacket. Griffin flew as a member of Crew #9 with the Doolittle Raiders. Photo from the National Museum
of the U.S. Air Force.
» Lt. Thomas C. Griffin's Aero 16160 A-2 (on the left)
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of a size 46 Good Wear W535-ac-16160 made with seal brown horsehide. |
Please contact us for more information about this Good Wear W535-ac-16160 Type A-2 through our e-mail: info@goodwearleather.com.
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