Vintage Golden West Airlines Pilot’s Flight Headphones Captain Abel S. August For Sale

Vintage Golden West Airlines Headphones from the estate of Chief Pilot, later Director of Operations, Abel S. August.

The headphones are made by Astrolite and are etched GWA 9-219 (see pictures for details). Used between the late 1960’s and the early 1980’s. I do not have an exact year.

*Business card is not included.*

In 1968, Abe, Nell and young daughter, Michele, moved to Oxnard, California where Abe was hired as a pilot with Golden West Airlines. He logged many flight hours and made lifelong friends during these years and was eventually promoted to Chief Pilot. In 1985 Abe upgraded his license to fly 747s and was hired as a first officer, later rising to captain, with Tower Air in New York. During Operation Desert Storm he flew many chartered flights of troops and medical teams in and out of the Middle East. During one of those missions in Israel, missiles began striking near the airport and recognizing the danger for his aircraft and passengers, he throttled down, screaming out low over the city, effectively evading a potentially disastrous situation. For his actions in Desert Storm, he was awarded accommodations by the US Air Force and the US Army. Abe was promoted to Chief Pilot and, ultimately, Director of Operations prior to his retirement from Tower Air.

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