By: sopwith.7f1 - 25th April 2012 at 09:49
I have had a closer look at the DoT & FAA labels, & they appear to be postal/shipping labels, rather than anything to do with the actual camera itself.
Bob T.
By: Bager1968 - 24th April 2012 at 06:31
Don’t know about the camera, but the box label is much newer.
The Department of Transportation was created in 1967.
The Federal Aviation Administration didn’t exist until 1966, when the Federal Aviation Agency (created 1958) changed its name.
Before 1958 there was the Civil Aeronautics Administration and Civil Aeronautics Board, which had been created in 1940 by the splitting of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, itself created in 1938.
From 1934-1938, the Bureau of Air Commerce ran aviation in the US, having been originally created on 20 May 1926 as the Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce.
Before that there was no US government oversight of civilian aviation.
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April 23, 2012 at 1:07 pm