Sextant Kit, Aircraft, Type A-10A, Fairchild Camera Lancaster Weston (pointer stuck at 6K)

Weston (pointer stuck at 6K)

but we have found it in the flight manual of the F-94C Starfire Fighter dated 1957

and opposite of the pointer is a small handle for manually rotating the ring to set the pointer on the desired heading

0-450 amps

and has a date stamp of 1969

Sextant Kit, Aircraft, Type A-10A, Fairchild Camera Lancaster Weston (pointer stuck at 6K)A very nice, working, WW2 vintage aircraft A 10A bubble sextant in its original wooden case with mounting hook and battery power accessory for nighttime illumination used for celestial navigation. Used across many versions of US Army Air Force aircraft with navigator crew during the era, such as bombers B 17 Flying Fortress, B 24 Liberator, and B 29 Superfortress, and transports C 46 Commando, C 47 Dakota, and C 54 Skymaster. The sextant would be