Avirex M-421a flight jacket repro

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272166175653

This jacket was made in the USA by Avirex Ltd. based upon the 1940s M-421a cotton flight jacket. It has the distinctive diamond shaped reinforcements on the sleeves, belt back and patch pockets. The unbranded bell shaped zipper is a decent approximation of the original, which wouldn’t be fully reproduced for years after the production run of this jacket. The jacket is, like the original, unlined, with an inside pocket.

Chest (pit to pit): 24″ (doubled = 48″)

Shoulder to shoulder: 20″

Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 21-1/2″

Length (base of collar to hem): 25-1/4″

1960s Ralph Edwards G-1 flight jacket

Posted on March 11, 2016 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/401086952351

This vintage G-1 flight jacket was made in the early 1960s. It has a half-belt back with bi-swing shoulders, a Conmar zipper front, rust colored mouton collar and knit collar and cuffs.

Chest (pit to pit): 21-1/2″ (doubled = 43″)

Shoulder to shoulder: 18-1/2″

Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 25″

Length (base of collar to hem): 24-1/2″

WWII Colvinex flight jacket

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272115026338

This vintage jacket was made around 1943, and started off life as an electrically heated CFN-24 flight suit, made with Colvinex metal yarn. It has a wartime Talon zipper with a bell shaped pull and an unmarked deco stopbox. It has a snap throat latch and double snap under collar closure. These Colvinex suits were popular post-war as motorcycle jacket conversions, as they were extremely well made, durable, inexpensive as surplus, and due to their separable bottom zippers, could be cut down into a jacket style with relative ease.

Chest (pit to pit): 22″

Shoulder to shoulder: 20″

Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 26″

Length (base of collar to hem): 22-3/4″

Cut down CFN-24 Colvinex flight suit

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272115041520

This vintage jacket started life off as a WWII CFN-24 Colvinex flight suit. These were popular motorcycle jacket conversions post war, due to the relative impracticality of a full length leather flight suit in civilian life, and due to their ease of conversion, with the front zipper having a separable bottom. It is made from goatskin, with a mouton collar, Conmar zipper, chinstrap, under-collar throat latch and belted waist. The owner of this one opted to cut his off at a 3/4 length, requiring it to also be zipped down from the waist to be put on.

Chest (pit to pit): 21″

Shoulder to shoulder: 19″

Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 25″

Length (base of collar to hem): 34″

MA-1 flight jacket

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272115644981

This MA-1 was made by I. Spiewak & Sons – Golden Fleece.

Tagged size: 42

Chest (pit to pit): 25″

Shoulder to shoulder: 19″

Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 27-1/2″

Length (base of collar to hem): 24-3/4″

CWU-36/P

Posted on March 5, 2016 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/401061204625

This jacket was made by Summit Apparel Corp / Alpha Industries, and is a Jacket, Flyer’s, CWU-36/P nomex flight jacket.

Chest (pit to pit): 24″

Shoulder to shoulder: 20″

Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 27″

Length (base of collar to hem): 25-1/4″

1930s-1940s aviator jacket

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/401045335421

This vintage jacket was made in the late 1930s-early 1940s. It is made from brown capeskin leather in the aviator style so popular in that time period. It has an offset zipper, broad lapels and collar, handwarmer pockets, a zipped breast pocket and zipped map pocket. It has a half-belt back. The main zipper is an early Crown, with a square topped stopbox and teeth very similar to a Talon (pre-chevron teeth, pre-two way teeth). The back is painted with nose art close to a Disney/Roald Dahl gremlin, with horned flight helmet and parachute harness, but with a pointy mosquito or bird nose. The lining is missing.

Chest (pit to pit): 22″ (doubled = 44″)

Shoulder to shoulder: 18-3/4″

Sleeve (shoulder to cuff):24-1/2″

Length (base of collar to hem): 24″

M421a repro by Ralph Lauren

Posted on October 8, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/401007308249
This jacket was made by Ralph Lauren, inspired by the WWII USN M-421a summer flight jacket. It is made of lightweight cotton twill, unlined, with a half-belt back, bi-swing shoulders, a bell shaped Talon zip, flapped patch pockets, the left of which has a pen slot, and an internal vertical snapped breast pocket.

Chest (pit to pit): 25-1/2″ (doubled = 51″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 20″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 24-3/4″
Length (base of collar to hem): 26″

1940s Civilian Air Associates B-2 leather flight jacket

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/281645136149
This vintage jacket was made in Kansas City, Missouri, as a civilian version of the US army B-2 Flight jacket, issued in the early 1930s, and replaced by the B-3 in 1934. The army version was made of horsehide, with a single breast pocket, attached belt zippered cuffs on the inside of the wrist, and a full alpaca lining and mouton collar. This jacket was produced with a civilian label and a few alterations to the pattern. This jacket is made from capeskin, and with handwarmer pockets instead the large breast patch pocket that was universally removed from the army production version. This jacket has an off-center Talon main zipper, with bell-shaped slider and unmarked diagonal-stripe sunburst stopbox. The sleeves have zipper cuffs, with early pattern United Carr snaps and bell shaped talon zippers. The jacket has heavy wear, and the label has been partially worn away. The remaining text reads “aviation” and “Kansas City Mo”. There is a remnant of what looks to be a wing logo. The size tag is of the black and yellow design used on military jackets, and the pocket linings are the distinctive shade of twill used in the linings of A-2 jackets. These details point to this jacket having been made as part of a specialized civilian aviator’s line by a manufacturer which held a military jacket contract.

Chest (pit to pit): 21-1/2″ (doubled = 43″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 16″
Sleeve (shoulder to cuff): 24″
Length (base of collar to hem): 22″

1950s All Weather Garment goatskin bomber jacket

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Spencer Stewart

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271820684029
This vintage jacket was made in California in the early 1950s from imported Goat Skin. It was made by All Weather Garment. The jacket is made in a post-war “bomber jacket” style, which takes elements of the A-2 flight jacket and melds them with other pre-war civilian styles to make something new. The jacket has patch pockets with scalloped pocket flaps and angled corners, epaulettes, a shirt style collar, knit cuffs and waistband and a Talon zipper of the style only used in the early 1950s, with the unmarked wide rib stopbox and square hole slider. The jacket has a quilted liner. With a 54″ chest, this would best fit someone who wears a 48-50 long. These early jackets are difficult to find in these larger sizes, especially in such an excellent state of preservation.

Chest (pit to pit): 27″ (doubled = 54″)
Shoulder to shoulder: 21-1/2″
Sleeve (shoulder to end of knit): 27″
Length (base of collar to end of waistband): 26-1/2″

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Avirex M-421a flight jacket repro

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1930s-1940s aviator jacket

M421a repro by Ralph Lauren

1940s Civilian Air Associates B-2 leather flight jacket

1950s All Weather Garment goatskin bomber jacket