Disney Art

From 1940-45 the Walt Disney studio created over 1,200 insignia for naval vessels, bomb squadrons, training schools and Allied units from England, France, Poland, and Canada.

It worked with the Lockheed Aircraft Company to produce an animated film “Four Methods of Flush Riveting”.

It also designed a Lockheed insignia showing the California Bear about to launch a newly built Ventura bomber.

At least 32 Disney Insignia were officially created for units in the RCAF during World War Two, while hundreds of others were just copied and painted as Nose Art.

In 1941 the Aeronca Aircraft Corporation produced the Military model O-58 A and B for the Army which received the name Army Grasshopper Plane. The insignia used for marketing the airplane was copied and painted on two Canadian flown Halifax aircraft as RCAF Nose Art.


	Nose Creek Museum Airdrie, Alberta, 1995.

The Disney artwork also appeared on a Halifax in No. 420 [Snowy Owl] Squadron, “A” flight, painted by Nose Artist Jimmy Smith. Serial is unknown