Sources for reproduction jackets:
- Eastman Leather Clothing
- History Preservation Associates (North American agent for Eastman Leather Clothing)
- Real McCoy's New Zealand
- Real McCoy's Japan
- Goodwear Leather Coat Company
- U.S. Authentic (also offers insignia and jacket art)
- Flight Suits
- The Aero Leather Company
- Cockpit USA (The current and long-time official contracted supplier of A-2's to the U.S. Air Force)
- U.S. Wings, Inc..
- American Mystique
- LegendaryUSA.com (Source for products from Cockpit, Schott, Alpha, Legendary branded, and others)
- Best Glide Aviation Survival Equipment, Inc. (Source for Cockpit jackets)
- Wested Leather Co. (Jacket vendor in England)
- Flieger Jacken (Jacket vendor in Germany)
- Leather-Jackets & More (Jacket vendor in Germany)
- Original-fliegerjacken.de (Jacket vendor in Germany, with lots of other related items as well)
Sources for vintage jackets:
Have a vintage A-2 jacket you'd like to sell? Visit Nation's Attic to strike a deal.
Sources for artwork:
- AAF Flight Jackets (Hand-painted leather squadron insignia and jacket art.)
- Rosemary Dery (Hand-painted jacket art and insignia.)
- David Miller's My Milk Run (Hand-painted insignia.)
- General Ray Davis Gallery (formerly Better Duck) (Jacket, insignia, and other military artwork.)
- WWII Nose Art (Jacket and insignia artwork.)
- Darby Perrin Aviation Art (Aviation art and painted jackets)
- Richard Thomas (hand-painted jacket artwork and leather squadron insignia; located in the UK) Richard has had an e-mail change to Richard-thomas@talktalk.net
- The Peters Group (Painted jackets and aviation art)
- Painted insignia patches by Johnny Signor (e-mail WeBeEmblems@aol.com)
Other links:
- Indy Gear is a resource guide to Indiana Jones equipment, including the Indy Jacket which is said to have been based on the A-2.
- If you want a highly authentic crush cap to go with your A-2, check out The Diamond Cap Co.
[E-mail: jackets-at-acmedepot.com (replace -at- with @)]