Air America Hat Badges  

The Famous Cap and Hat Badges

These are found in several forms depending upon the cap or hat they were on:

• Embroidered bullion
• Embroidered thread (we found this on an original baseball cap!)
• Large "Sterling" or "Silver" marked metal with single screw back and one post/pin on each wing
• Small silver metal (unmarked) with single screw back and one post/pin on each wing
• Embroidered in red cotton thread on a green patch (in our example over the CAT patch!)

Copies of the "Air America" winged badge have been around for years - if it doesn't match one of these it's probably not real.  Recently silver and gold pot-metal copies with the proper single post back have shown up on the market.  You can tell these copies by their quality and by the fact that the round "nut" does not fit the post very well.  The originals are quite snug and of very good quality.   Original cap badges were sterling silver.  See Reproduction Items for more information on cap badges.

First Pattern Smaller Metal Cap Badge Worn on Baseball-Type Cap in Early 1960's	First Pattern Smaller Metal Cap Badge on Baseball-Type Cap in Early 1960's
This pin was also worn on "Aussie-Style" Bush Hats Privately Purchased by Some Pilots/Crew
Bullion Cap Badge	Embroidered Cap Badge (Udorn-made)
Embroidered and Bullion Cap Badges on Caps	Embroidered Cap Badge on Cap (Udorn-made)
Sterling Silver Cap Badge	Sterling Silver Cap Badge
US-Made and Asian-Made Silver Cap Badges Note: differences in shield/lettering	US-Made and Asian-Made Silver Cap Badges Note: marks - Sterling & Silver
Sterling Silver Cap Badge	Copy Pot Metal Cap Badge
Sterling Silver Cap Badge (Back)	Copy Pot Metal Cap Badge (Back)
Sterling Silver Cap Badge	Sterling Silver Cap Badge
Copy Silver Metal Cap Badge (Older Copy)	Copy Silver Metal Cap Badge (Older Copy -- Back)
Ground Crew Cap Insignia	Ground Crew Cap Insignia

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