Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Lockheed Aircraft Company” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 01:04 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Lockheed Sirius "Tingmissartoq", Charles A. Lindbergh
Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1931-1933

Lockheed Vega "Winnie Mae"
Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1930

Lockheed Vega 5B, Amelia Earhart
Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1927-1929

Lockheed F-104A Starfighter
Lockheed Aircraft Company

Lockheed XP-80 "Lulu Belle"
Lockheed Aircraft Company · 1943
Receiver, Western Wireless, Type 7, Earhart, 1935 Pacific Flight
Western Wireless · 1930-1934

Lockheed T-33A-5-LO Shooting Star
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation · 1948

Lockheed U-2C
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. · 1955

Model, 1:5, Hubble Space Telescope
Lockheed Martin Missile and Space Corporation

Model, Static, Lockheed S-3A Viking
Artist not stated in the record

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson · 1964

Grumman F8F-2, Bearcat, "Conquest I"
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation · 1948
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 39 matched · 24 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.0 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 60703 matched · 40 examined · 24 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 01:04 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.