Sextant Kit, Aircraft, Type A-10A, Fairchild Camera Lancaster

Sextant Kit, Aircraft, Type A-10A, Fairchild Camera LancasterA very nice, working, WW2 vintage aircraft A 10A bubble sextant in its original wooden case with mounting hook and battery power accessory for nighttime illumination used for celestial navigation. Used across many versions of US Army Air Force aircraft with navigator crew during the era, such as bombers B 17 Flying Fortress, B 24 Liberator, and B 29 Superfortress, and transports C 46 Commando, C 47 Dakota, and C 54 Skymaster. The sextant would be

but we have found it in the flight manual of the F-94C Starfire Fighter dated 1957

Alternative markings have been added by hand in red on the exterior glass

and opposite of the pointer is a small handle for manually rotating the ring to set the pointer on the desired heading

0-450 amps

for engines 1 & 2

and many others

Measures ~3 inches diameter and 5 inches deep

Weston (pointer stuck at 6K)

The aircraft altitude and speed was entered on the rear of the sight

California) dated Nov 19

and has a date stamp of 1969

over a large railroad marshalling yard