This series contains printed materials, including bibliographies, corporate overviews, investment prospectuses, press kits and releases, sales brochures, technical specification sheets, and typescript histories, produced by individual aircraft manufacturers and airlines.

The bulk of the materials relates primarily to British and French manufacturers, and dates from 1947 to 1955. British corporations include Boulton Paul Aircraft, Bristol Aeroplane Co., British Aircraft Corp., De Havilland Enterprise, English Electric Co., Folland Aircraft, Hawker Siddeley Group, Hunting Percival Aircraft, Rolls Royce, Saunders-Roe, and Vickers-Armstrongs. French corporations include Hispano-Suiza, Avions Hurel-Dubois; Louis Breguet, Marcel Dassault, S.N.C.A.S.E. [Société nationale de constructions aéronautiques du sud-est], S.N.C.A.S.O. [Société nationale de constructions aéronautiques du sud-ouest], S.N.E.C.M.A. [Société nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs d'aviation], Société des moteurs Salmson, Hydravions Schreck-F.B.A., Syndicat des équipements et matériels aéronautiques. U.S. manufacturers include Aerojet Engineering Corp., Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, Curtiss-Wright Corp., Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. [DELCO], Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Northrop Aircraft, Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro Co., Romaircraft Corp., and Sikorsky Aircraft Co. The Catalogo annuario of A.N.I.M.A. Gruppo costruttori aeronautici Italiani and Avions et moteurs italiens of A.I.A. [Associazone imprese aeronautiche] give an overview of Italian aircraft construction in 1937 and circa 1951, respectively. Other aircraft corporations represented include Fiat Aviazione, Fokker, and Svenska Flygmotor Aktiebolaget.

Several individual aircraft are especially well documented in the materials. The series contains complete blueprints (1915-1918) for the Curtiss JN4D; a June 1936 range study of the Lockheed Electra bimotor airplane (the model used by Amelia Earhart on her last flight); a technical data manual for Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation airliner; and plans for a model of Northrop Aircraft's 1945 P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter; as well as a lavish brochure on the De Havilland Comet jet airliner; extensive press releases on the Folland "Gnat"; a press kit on the Saunders-Roe P.531 helicopter; and sales bulletins for the Sikorsky S-51 helicopter.

While the majority of corporations represented manufactured aircraft, several, such as Aerojet Engineering, Hispano Suiza, Rolls Royce, S.N.E.C.M.A. [Société nationale d'étude et de construction de moteurs d'aviation], and Société des moteurs Salmson, were concerned primarily or exclusively with manufacturing motors. In addition, Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. [DELCO] manufactured batteries used in aircraft engine ignition, and Curtiss-Wright manufactured flight simulators. The Union syndicale des industries aéronautiques françaises, a trade group, in 1957 produced an information card in the form of a slide-rool for identifying French military aircraft.

While the materials emphasize contemporary production, those produced by Hawker-Siddeley, Northrop, and Hydravions Schreck also include many photographs of historic aircraft. In addition, DELCO's Aviation ignition; a description of the DELCO generator battery as applied to modern aviation engines (1919); the promotional books produced by Pitcairn-Cierva Autogiro (circa 1930) and Hydravions Schreck (1929); and the investment prospectus issued by Romaircraft (1929) are examples of exceptional quality in design and production.

The series also includes typescript corporate histories of Boeing Airplane Co. (1954), Bristol Aeroplane Co. (1953), and Lear, Inc. (1956), and well as of Braniff Airways (circa 1955), Eastern Airlines (1954), Los Angeles Airways (1955), and Pan American Airways (circa 1959).