We can always tell when an old customer comes calling, they call
asking, "did you used to be Check Six Aviation?" We have been
through several names over the last 12 years of doing business like
Check Six Aviation, CSA Corp, and then Flighthelmet.com in 2000 and
incorporating under Flighthelmet.com, Inc in 2005.
The business started at the beginning of the internet system around
1994- there we very few webpages and when you did a helmet search on
eBay only 2 or 3 listings would come up every week. The owner started
as a collector and took his computer and webpage knowledge with his
love of flight gear and ejection seats and created the first dedicated
online flight gear website in 1996.
Flighthelmet.com, Inc has now grown into the one of the largest
flight gear providers with 15,000 square feet (5.000 sq meters) of
warehouse filled with gear from WW2 to the present. We have customers
in 82 countries around the world, and every state in the US.
We are a government contractor and provide many military squadrons
with parts and gear that would take too long to get or are no longer
in the government inventory. We have assisted certain "lettered"
government agencies with aviation life support equipment to protect
some of the most important people in the world. We take our job very
seriously.
Aside from the flight use equipment, we provide collectors around
the world with impossible to find helmets, masks, and other equipment
from WW2 to Vietnam. These items are drying up but Flighthelmet.com
seems to always come up with high quality collectibles.
Our website is extensive and takes over 500 gigabytes of
server-space. We want it to be a reference source for all collectors,
not just a "come buy our stuff" website. From our ever-popular (and
original) X-files Helmet Museum to the flight gear articles, you can
learn a lot by just clicking around. The website had over 1.5 million
visitors last year, that is an average of 125,000 visitors per month.