Sextant Kit, Aircraft, Type A-10A, Fairchild Camera Lancaster and many others

and many others

and has a date stamp of 1969

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

The aircraft altitude and speed was entered on the rear of the sight

Weston (pointer stuck at 6K)

Sextant Kit, Aircraft, Type A-10A, Fairchild Camera Lancaster and many othersA 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