Ron Cole combines authenticated parts of these historic aircraft with his original art in these handmade wall-hanging & desktop limited edition displays - only available in this online store!
Editions sell out every week. New editions introduced every week.
$300.00
Hindenburg LZ129 Lakehurst Crash Silver Doped Linen 6x8-inch Acrylic Relic Display, by Ron Cole The wreckage of the Hindenburg was mostly melted for scrap. Over 150,000 pounds of frame metal...
$120.00
Ron Cole's homage to Cole Palen and his iconic aircraft. Signed & numbered. Available in various sizes, papers, framed & unframed. See options and prices:
$200.00
It has often been referred to as simply 'Cole's polka-dotted Fokker', and while the aircraft was an amalgam of an original c. 1920 Fokker C.I, original D.VII parts, and other...
$2,800.00
One-of-a-kind set, each 20x30-inches open-framed matte canvas displays: Large piece of Kapton Foil from Apollo 13 command module (with COA) and Space Shuttle Columbia heat shield blanket with part number...
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SELLING OUT: 15 pieces left out of the series of 300 (6/3/25) This is a chance to own authenticated linen that was on the 1903 Wright Flyer I when that...
$380.00
Spring Break, Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, by Ron Cole. Made and ready to ship! 24x24-inches (overall size) open hardwood framed matte canvas one-of-a-kind. Signed and numbered.
$380.00
JFK Air Force One, by Ron Cole. Made and ready to ship! 32x22-inches (overall size) open framed matte canvas one-of-a-kind. Signed and numbered.
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Bell UH-1B 'Huey' helicopter in Vietnam, by Ron Cole. Made and ready to ship! 20x25-inches (overall size) open framed matte canvas one-of-a-kind. Signed and numbered.
$2,800.00
24x36 open framed canvas one-of-a-kind display: 'Doolittle Raid' B-25B Mitchell s/n 40-2270 'Whiskey Pete' (Aircraft Number 3) mission-flown relic display combining an authentic piece of this aircraft with original artwork...
$260.00
In July of 1944 an unequal aerial combat took place in the skies over Bourges, France between the United States Army Air Corps and the Luftwaffe. Germany's Heinkel He 177...
$200.00
Another highly requested aircraft: Lockheed C-130 Hercules flown aluminum skin (from this aircraft's nose section) wall-hanging relic display. It's incredible to consider that the C-130 Hercules has been in continuous...
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The wait is over for this most-requested aviation relic display in Cole's Aircraft history! I was twelve years old when, in 1982, I first visited Top Gun. That was before...
You want more than just a pretty picture on the wall - you want a conversation piece:
For over thirty years Ron Cole has combed the globe to accumulate some of the rarest and best-preserved parts from historic aircraft to combine with his award-winning aviation artwork and airplane paintings. No one else combines these elements as Cole's Aircraft does. These F4F Hellcat parts were discovered on Espiritu Santo in the remote South Pacific and arrived here in Ohio via Australia six months later.
In March 2022 Cole's Aircraft acquired its first complete warbird: this Japanese A6M2 Model 21 Zero Fighter, built by Nakajima in 1943 and served with the famous 201st Kokutai out of Tobera, Rabaul. Recovered from Balalae in the Solomon Islands in 2019, it now has a permanent home in our Zanesville Ohio studio while Ron works to restore its cockpit section.
$2,800.00
One-of-a-kind set, each 20x30-inches open-framed matte canvas displays: Large piece of Kapton Foil from Apollo 13 command module (with COA) and Space Shuttle Columbia heat shield blanket with part number...
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Space-flown Space Shuttle Endeavour high-temp heat shielding relic display, combining a 7.5x4-inch piece of this unique material that's well-marked with part numbers and inspection stamps and combined with original artwork...
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One-of-a-kind handmade 6x11-inch free-standing acrylic desk display combining a large 6x2.5-inch section from the vertical stabilizer of a Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk 'Stealth Fighter' and Ron Cole's original artwork of this...
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Special one-of-a-kind Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird large titanium skin relic display made by Ron Cole, pairing this very interesting piece of SR-71 'Super Skater' with his original artwork of this aircraft...
Ron Cole built his career in Los Angeles, California as an industrial designer and product development engineer, with companies such as Disney, Pixar, Mattel, Boeing, JPL, and many others. He also worked as a model maker on such films as Terminator III, The Aviator, Cat in the Hat, and Madagascar. While in LA, Ron also worked as an artist and renderer for architects and developers. The unique demands of that competitive industry led him to create a new and proprietary means of creating his imagery - one that combined the best of acrylic-on-canvas media and the versatility of digital painting.
Ron founded Cole's Aircraft in 2006. A fan of historic aviation since childhood, he combined that passion with his professional experience to market aircraft-themed products; traditional limited edition prints and his unique line of 'relic displays'. The latter combined actual pieces of famous aircraft with his artwork. "People want more than just a pretty picture on the wall," he says. "I offer them that. I provide people with real history that they can reach out and touch".
Cole's Aircraft (and REC@War) incorporated in 2019. Based in Zanesville, Ohio, Ron Cole also runs Gallery Luminaria and is very active in his local art community.
