The WWII aviation nose art collection of the AAHM, consisting of 33 panels, is the largest in existence. Now considered American folk art, these artifacts were cut from the fuselages of WWII aircraft as they were being scrapped after the war at the Aircraft Conversion Company owned by George R. and Herman Brown at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. Minot Pratt, Jr., general manager of the company, had some of the most colorful and popular pieces removed from the aircraft before the smelting process. The pieces remained in the Brown family until the mid-sixties when Tully Pratt III requested that the collection be donated to the AAHM.