Spring Military Aviation and Militaria Auction
Lot 112A:
Description
This lot consists of two World War II-era flight logs belonging to Charles W. Sykes, an Aviation Machinist’s Mate (AMM) serving in the United States Navy Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) service. The primary item is an official Navy Aviators Flight Log Book, Form N. AER. 4111, featuring an orange cloth cover. The cover is inscribed with the owner’s name, rank, and branch of service. Internal entries from 1943 document operations with Blimp Squadron Twenty-One (ZP-21). The log records flights in ZNP type non-rigid patrol blimps, specifically identifying airships K-53, K-85, K-48, K-65, and K-86. Operational geography includes flights between Key West, Florida; NAS Richmond, Florida; and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The second item is a personal pocket flight notebook with a black cover and a typed identification label for Charles Sykes, AMM 3/C, ZP-Squadron-21. This notebook contains handwritten daily logs from September 1943, detailing flights from NAS Richmond and NAS Banana River. The entries use the designation King followed by hull numbers and record patrol durations frequently lasting between 10 and 17 hours.
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