#NatsHats: Introduction

If you have to wear something on your head to keep the sun out of your eyes while flying, you might as well show off a bit of your personality at the same time, right?  Modelers of yesteryear certainly thought so!

Check out all the headgear by clicking through the posts below.

#NatsHats: Art’s Pith Helmet

#NatsHats: Some Like it Plain

#NatsHats: 1986 Nats Cap

#NatsHats: 1979 Nats Caps

#NatsHats: Two Trick Hats

#NatsHats: 1956 Nats Pith Helmet

#NatsHats: Bob Scott’s Pith Helmet

#NatsHats: One Trick Hat

#NatsHats: 2005 Nats Cap

#NatsHats: 1994 Nats Cap

#NatsHats: Dan Garfinkel’s Trick Hat 

#NatsHats: 1992 Nats Cap

#NatsHats: Larry Jenno’s Contest Helmet

#NatsHats: A Flying Hat

#NatsHats: Jim Walker’s Helmet

Share a picture of your own personal shade by using the #NatsHats at the AMA’s Twitter account, or the museum’s Facebook.

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