# Securing aviation pieces: the badge is small, the propeller is a room

> Secure aviation: treat small badges like orders, keep large parts stable, check the origin of military pieces.
> Quelle: https://tresorrari.de/artikel/aviation-sammlung-sichern · Stand: 2026-10-01 · Tresorrari Redaktion

A pilot's scarf and a propeller are not the same kind of securing. One is textile and a badge, the other an object that falls over. In the overview [Security for collectors](/artikel/sicherheit-fuer-sammler) you split the holdings before you buy a cabinet.

## Small

Badges, watches, logbooks. The watch follows the text on [wristwatches](/artikel/armbanduhren-sammlung-sichern), the badge the one on [orders](/artikel/orden-medaillen-sichern), the logbook follows paper: dark, dry, in the document cabinet if it is rare. Military marks you are unsure about, you clarify before you show them.

## Large

Propellers, instrument panels, a seat. Free of knocks, dry, not in the damp shed, labeled on the list so an instrument does not lie "somewhere." An instrument with glass follows the rule for [scientific instruments](/artikel/wissenschaftliche-instrumente-sichern): do not take it apart yourself.

## The folder

Every small piece one line, the large parts with measurements and a photo. Origin, as far as you can document it. It is not invented.


## Häufige Fragen

### Everything in one room?

No. Paper and badges dry and locked away, the large part stable and not in the wet.

### Logbook on the shelf?

If it is rare, into the document cabinet. Light and damp eat paper.

### Unscrew the instrument?

No. Glass and scale suffer, and the adjustment is a different one afterward.