Captain Frank’s Air Hawks : 1936 - 1937

Frank Hawks (1897 – 1938) was a pilot in the United States Army Air Service during World War I and was known during the 1920s and 1930s as a record breaking aviator, using a series of Texaco-sponsored aircraft and setting 214 point-to-point records in the United States and Europe. Prolific in the media and continually in the “public eye”, in the 1937 The Mysterious Pilot movie serial, Hawks was billed as the “fastest airman in the world.”

Hawks became active in entertainment ventures with his long-running radio serial (“Hawk’s Trail”), a starring role in Klondike (1932), and becoming the leading actor in a film serial, The Mysterious Pilot (1937).

The Captain Hawks club was called Captain Frank’s Air Hawks. There were three different winged badges offered; the Membership rank, which was silvered brass, the Squadron Leader which was brass, and the Flight Commander which was bronze. There is also a membership ring with a propellor design to go with them. From a premiums and marketing perspective, Post also ran a simliar programs for Frank Hawks and Melvin Pervis

Frank Hawks adjustable ring