Until 1941 Luftwaffe flying personal was wearing bulky one-piece flight suits, which were designed years before.
That year a new, innovative and comfortable flight suit was introduced: The brand new two-piece "Channel Suits".
The sets were called this way, because of they were used a lot above the Channel during the "Battle of Britain".
Consisting of a pair of trousers with all sorts of handy pockets for storing survival gear, flight maps and personal belongings.
While the jackets had a nice, modern, tailored cut using the best fabrics.
The particular jacket we have on sale here is the co-called "Heated Channel Jacket".
A really hard to find version of these jackets.
This example misses the electrical sleeve wires, they were cut of and the remaining holes are stitched. There is some usual wear around the waist, where the jacket used to hang over the trousers.
Except from the missing wiring, the jacket has all of its Stocko 9 press buttons, working zippers (Zipp for the main zipper and Elite for the sleeve zippers).