Air Corps Museum Glass Plate Negative Photographs

IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/007 to IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/008

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BF III Crash

Category: Air Corps Museum Glass Plate Negative Photographs

Album: IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/007 to IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/008

Date Range: 20/03/1930 - 21/03/1930

Reference Code: IE-MA-ACPS-GPN-006-3.jpg

Glass plate copy negatives of Bristol Fighter F2B Fighter serial III which crashed at Naas, Kildare 17 July 1922. Images shows the wreck of the aricraft on the ground taken from each both sides and the rear. The aircraft had arrived in Baldonnel 10 July 1922. Glass plate one has been identifed on the envelope as Bristol Fighter II which was delivered to Baldonnel 4 July 1922 and was written off after a crash at Castlebagot, Baldonnel 23 Jan 1924 in which Lieutenant R. T. Nevin was killed. The image, however, appears to be that of the BF III crash on 17 July 1922. Glass plate two and three both show the serial number of the aircraft BF III.
IE MA ACPS GPN 007

Folding Parachute in A.R.S. Baldonnel

Category: Air Corps Museum Glass Plate Negative Photographs

Album: IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/007 to IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/008

Date Range: 01/01/1937 - 31/12/1937

Reference Code: IE-MA-ACPS-GPN-007.jpg

Glass plate negative of a possibly staged photograph showing the folding of a parachute in a hangar in Baldonnel. The parachute is being folded on a workbench in the foreground of the image. Aircraft visible in the background include EI AAA, a Bristol Fighter (type 14 F2B Fighter MK II serial 21) and an Airco DH9 (serial number 8). Written in green pen on the top of the glass plate: '20.3.1930 F.L. 7.25' G110 Folding Parachute in A.R.S. Baldonnel
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No. 1 Army Band

Category: Air Corps Museum Glass Plate Negative Photographs

Album: IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/007 to IE/MA/ACPS/GPN/008

Date Range: 06/03/1933 - 07/03/1933

Reference Code: IE-MA-ACPS-GPN-008.jpg

Glass plate copy negative of a photograph of the army number one band posing with their instruments for a group portrait image at Portobello Barracks. Thirty-eight members of the army band, arranged in four rows pose with two officers in dress uniform.