Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very good tan cloth, silk lined LKP S101 Luftwaffe Pilot's summer flying helmet with a very worn and cracked of pilot’s goggles and the original avionics. Introduced in 1937, it has improved electronics and sound proof rubber ear cups covered in leather. It is marked Ln 26617. The inner label reads:

FL. Kopfhaube  Gr. 59
Baumuster LKp S101
Gerät - Nr  124-436 B
Werk - Nr -/Striwe
Anf. Z    Ln 26617
Siemens
Lieferer: Luftfahrt-
Gerätewerk Hckenfelde
G.m.b.H.

This is a superb condition original helmet with all of its straps, electronics and buckles. There is no sign of moth damage or repair. The helmet retains its original power cord, with its original length.

The goggles retain their elastic well but the rubber around the eye pieces is extremely damaged from use and age, with very heavy cracking and material loss of the rubber.

This really is a nice example of a German WWII Flying helmet, complete with avionics and damaged goggles. Ready to add to your collection!

The Luftwaffe was the aerial-warfare branch of the German Wehrmacht before and during World War II. Germany's military air arms during World War I, the Luftstreitkräfte of the Imperial Army and the Marine-Fliegerabteilung of the Imperial Navy, had been disbanded in May 1920 in accordance with the terms of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles which banned Germany from having any air force.

During the interwar period, the German armed forces secretly trained pilots - in violation of the Treaty - at Lipetsk Air Base in the Soviet Union. With the rise of the NSDAP (in power from 1933) and the repudiation of the Versailles Treaty, the Luftwaffe's existence was publicly acknowledged on 26 February 1935, just over two weeks before open defiance of the Versailles Treaty through the announcement of German rearmament and conscription on 16 March. The Condor Legion, a Luftwaffe detachment sent to aid Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War, provided the force with a valuable testing-ground for new tactics and aircraft. Partially as a result of this combat experience, the Luftwaffe had become one of the most sophisticated, technologically advanced, and battle-experienced air forces in the world when World War II broke out in 1939. By the summer of 1939, the Luftwaffe had twenty.