Eight Panel Korean Sabre Jet Pilot Cap Repros

So, still waiting for a yellow cap to complete my 51st Fighter Interceptor Wing pilot crew cap collection, I will post my 25th FIS(Fighter Interceptor Squadron) and 16th FIS caps.

The red 25th is the best I can do based on the pictures I have in a book and some references to the patch online. I have attempted this patch before, using paint on white felt. Wasn't really happy with the result, so I pieced one together from red, white, blue, black, and yellow felt and sewed it on to the cap.

The cap was made by Cooperstown caps. I love it. Eight panel caps are rare, since six became the standard in the late nineteen fifties. I believe the pilots bought these caps from vendors in Japan, and in the erly 1950s, the Japanese were still producing the kind of baseball cap that had been made in the US for generations before, the eight panel cap.

The blue and white 16th FIS cap is modeled after an actual cap I viewed in a museum and got a few shots of. The patch is a combination of blue and white felt, sewed together and onto the cap. Along with photos in a book, I think I got it pretty close with this eight panel cap from Cooperstown.













The original 16th FIS cap in the museum:





dean

Thanks for sharing those pictures. I have been contemplating an eight panel from them. I have a 46, and now a 56 Redsox cap from them, and I must say they ate the most comfortable caps I have ever worn.Here's a typical 6 panel from them.