Anniversary Edition · Horsehide · Z21W009W
Cockpit USA 40th Anniversary A-2
Weathered Horsehide Flight Jacket
$28,692.00
Four decades of Cockpit USA's horsehide A-2 standard, marked the quiet way: specially weathered hide, olive contrast stitching, and a contract-number label — nothing else changed, because nothing else needed to be. Made in the USA.
Fit — Trim Military Fit
Cut trim to the military pattern, sizes 38–60. Between sizes or layering? Take the next size up.
Anniversary Edition · Horsehide
Cockpit USA 40th Anniversary A-2
$28,692.00
Forty years of horsehide.
The anniversary edition of the jacket Cockpit built its standard on — weathered hide, olive stitching.
Ages like the 1940s.
The leather is finished to age the way wartime horsehide A-2s have aged: slowly, deeply, honestly.
WWII construction.
One-piece back, scalloped flaps, contract-number label, sizes to 60. Made in the USA.
Weathered horsehide · olive contrast stitching
The anniversary detail.
Olive contrast stitching is the one mark distinguishing this edition from the standard Horsehide A-2 — subtle on purpose.
The Workshop · Since 1975
Patina by design.
The weathering is calibrated so the jacket ages the way horsehide A-2s from the 1940s have aged — recording use, not obscuring it.
The 40th Anniversary A-2, at the airfield
Fit
Trim military fit. 38–60.
The widest size range in the horsehide family. Between sizes? Take the next size up.
The A-2 Family
Choose your A-2.
40th Anniversary A-2
The anniversary edition
$28,692.00
You’re looking at it
Before you fly.
What makes it the anniversary edition?
Olive contrast stitching on specially weathered horsehide — the one detail distinguishing it from the standard Horsehide A-2, marking four decades of Cockpit's horsehide standard.
How will it age?
Like the originals: slowly, with a deep patina that records use rather than hiding it.
How does the sizing run?
Trim military fit, sizes 38–60 — the widest horsehide range. Between sizes? Size up.
What's the neck label?
A black WWII-style contract-number label, the wartime maker's mark.
Made in USA?
Yes — made in the USA by Cockpit USA.
More horsehide.
Anniversary Edition · The Horsehide Standard
Forty years of doing
one thing properly.
Cockpit USA has built horsehide A-2s long enough to set the modern reproduction standard — and this edition marks four decades of it the way the company marks everything: quietly. Specially weathered medium-weight horsehide, olive contrast stitching as the single distinguishing detail, and a black contract-number neck label. The leather is finished to age the way A-2s from the 1940s have aged — slowly, with a patina that records use rather than obscuring it. Made in the USA.
Olive contrast stitching at the scalloped flap and cuff
The Material
Weathered to age
like the 1940s.
Specially weathered medium-weight horsehide, designed to age the way horsehide A-2s from the 1940s have aged: slowly, with a deep patina that records use rather than obscuring it.
The olive contrast stitching is the anniversary's only flourish. Everything else is the standard, because the standard is the point.
Construction
The standard, marked once.
One-piece back
The nose-art panel, seamless.
Scalloped flap pockets
With a collar stand and snap-down collar.
Brass zip + storm flap
Hook-and-eye neck closure above.
Wool-blend knits
Knit waistband and seamless flared cuffs.
Vent grommets + epaulets
Underarm ventilation; box-stitched shoulder epaulets.
Contract-number label
Black WWII-style neck label — the wartime maker's mark.
“Designed to age the way horsehide A-2s from the 1940s have aged.”
The 40th Anniversary Horsehide A-2 · Cockpit USA
The Workshop · Since 1975
Patina
by design.
Four decades of horsehide taught Cockpit exactly how this leather ages — so the anniversary edition's weathering is calibrated to start the jacket where the originals ended up heading.
One-piece back, scalloped flaps, contract-number label. Cut and sewn in the USA, sizes 38 through 60.
Poplin lining and the contract-number label
The 40th Anniversary A-2, at the airfield
The Details
One flourish. Everything else, standard.
Olive contrast stitching — the anniversary mark
Contract-number neck label · poplin lining
Fit
Trim military fit.
38 through 60.
Cut trim like the wartime A-2, in the widest size range of the horsehide family. Full garment measurements are in the Size Guide chart.
Fit — Trim Military Fit
Between sizes, layering, or broad through the shoulders? Take the next size up.
Measurements taken with the garment laying flat.
The A-2 Family
Three A-2s. One pattern.
What Customers Say
Questions
Before you fly.
What makes it the anniversary edition?
Olive contrast stitching on specially weathered horsehide — the single detail distinguishing it from the standard Horsehide A-2. It marks four decades of Cockpit USA's horsehide A-2 standard.
How will the leather age?
The weathering is designed so the jacket ages the way horsehide A-2s from the 1940s have aged — slowly, with a deep patina that records use rather than obscuring it.
40th Anniversary or standard Horsehide A-2?
Same construction and material family. The 40th adds pre-weathering and olive stitching, and runs to size 60; the standard is the strict-spec clean version.
How does the sizing run?
Trim military fit, sizes 38–60. Between sizes or layering? Take the next size up.
What's the neck label?
A black WWII-style contract-number label — the way wartime contractors marked theirs.
Made in USA?
Yes — made in the USA by Cockpit USA.
