Flight Jacket Authentication

[nsoul]

I found this flight jacket at my local thrift store and was curious if it’s legit or not. It feels and smells like genuine leather. I’m wondering if anyone can identify if this is real or the time period of it. I can’t find much about it online. Thanks.

 

[B-Man2]

Hi Nsoul
Welcome to VLJ.
Regarding your jacket . It’s made by a company that did make flight jackets at one time for the military. However , this jacket is not an actual military issued jacket. It’s a jacket designed to look like a military jacket and given a military sounding name , the G-8. It’s a good jacket but just not a military issued one.

 

[daw]

Nice looking jacket, shades of the m444 in non-shearling.

 

[nsoul]

Hi Nsoul
Welcome to VLJ.
Regarding your jacket . It’s made by a company that did make flight jackets at one time for the military. However , this jacket is not an actual military issued jacket. It’s a jacket designed to look like a military jacket and given a military sounding name , the G-8. It’s a good jacket but just not a military issued one.

Thank you B-Man2. Do you know if it possible to figure out the year the jacket was produced?

 

[B-Man2]

Thank you B-Man2. Do you know if it possible to figure out the year the jacket was produced?

If I had to venture an educated guess, I’d say during the 1990’s, but that’s just a guess.

 

[nsoul]

If I had to venture an educated guess, I’d say during the 1990’s, but that’s just a guess.

Cool! Thank you!

 

[Silver Surfer]

1990s is about right. kinda precursor, and possible inspiration for the "raiders of the lost ark" jackets that proliferated soon there after.

 

[Clark J]

Looks like goat

 

[MikeyB-17]

That is, to all intents and purposes, a leather M-444. So basically a leather version of an actual US Navy issued sheepskin jacket. A nice, practical jacket, I wouldn’t mind one myself. And yeah, I reckon it’s goat too, which for a Navy jacket, would make sense.