Jet Aer corp Boot knife/dagger?

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shortgoth

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Just looking for any information out there (if there is any) on the maker, recently added to my dagger collection as a nice little boot knife.

Length OAL: 8 7/8"
Blade length: 4 5/8"
Maker: Jet-Air Corp out of Paterson, NJ is apparently the parent company, but the knife is made in Japan.
Model: G-96, No 7003.

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Hi Danny,

Jet-Aer was an importer here in the States, they started in business in 1973, I am not sure if their still around. They use to advertise in various outdoor magazines here. Their knives are mostly Buck copies, or Buck influenced designs.

I have seen their knives here, and there, selling in the $20 to 35 range. Your knife is really nice:).

HTH:D:).
 
knives by the jet-aer corporation peterson new jersey usa seem to be very rare burds in the uk? i have been trading & collecting for many years & have only just come across my 1st one. this is a japanese made! knife makers choice #860 G96 brand large 5inch (buck 110 clone) folding hunter with a lovely leather pouch. the quality of this knife is outstanding & cannot be faulted, it was picked up off uk ebay in unused condition with pouch box & paperwork for under £5 largely due to a poor photo & description! i think these knives must have been imported to the uk by whitby! as there is a whitby quality knives sticker on the box with the code #Lk860. i was just wondering if any of you chaps out there in knifeland know anything else about this company & its range of knives? cheerz from the knifebloke..
 
The bike shop where I used to work back in the mid-80's sold these so I picked up a few. I can remember a Buck 110 clone and small barlow style but my memory is fuzzy... My favorite was a small (~3") lockback with a clip sheath. The sheath was only deep enough for the bottom half of the knife but there was a pin that fit into the thong hole and "locked" the knife in... Wish I could find that knife, its gotta be somewhere...

Have fun,
tom
:)
 
back to jet-aer knives blade steel, i have the knife, box, & paperwork & theres no mention of blade steel at all? the blades are very sharp so that gets me thinking back to parkers 1980s japanese knives that all had surgical steel blades, maybe these was done in the same factory & have the same blades? just a thought that maybe someone else can run with? :confused: cheerz from the knifebloke.. :)
 
taken from the owner instructions that came with the knife! & i quote "knife makers choice knives are made of a special rust proof steel that combines the edge holding ability of high carbon steel with the easy care of stainless steel. when properly sharpend they will hold their razor sharp edge through long & repeated use" unquote well thats it for what its worth? cheers from the knifebloke :eek:
 
Thanks, knifebloke. The G96 in question is about the size and shape of a Buck 112, but with a smaller, non locking blade, saw, bottle and can openers, and phillips. It is quite well built and the most rugged SAK type knife I've seen. The blade takes a wicked edge, but I've not used it enough to comment reliably on retention.
 
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I was given this knife when I was 9 years old. My grand father gave it to me, close to my 10th birthday. It was the first knife I ever owned. It is a simple stainless steel flip pocket knife, made in Japan with the following insignia:
JET-AER
CORP
PATERSON,
N.J.
{on the flip side...}
G-96
NO 6001
MADE IN
JAPAN


Please give information if available.
CR
 
Hi,,
If you happen to get any info on this knife would you be nice enough to relay it to me? I have the same knife and am hitting a dead end. Thanks, Reneé
 
these knives were around late 70s & early 80s.decent quality& inexpensive.they had a blue handled fillet knife that was shaped kike a rounded triangle.one of the best knives i ever cleaned fish with.we filleted perch & it worked kike a dream. dropped it in a lake 20yrs. ago,beenlooking since.
 
This was considered a cheap import of the day, often seen in better gas stations and hardware store checkout counters. Very inexpensive in the day, usually stainless when it was still attempting to have a reputation, and now seen as pretty high quality compared to knives imported from other countries.

Because of it's minimal values and barely above the counter presence, there's not a lot out there on them. The collector's forum by Benard Levine might be able to do more.
 
I posted this in the Other Thread that you shouldn't have posted in either! Hell, there is a moderator that even says something about Necroposting a few posts above your own!

NJBillK said:
Sorry to say this, but due to forum rules, we can't give a value of a knife to a member that is below the "Gold" subscription.

On top of that, bumping old threads, aka thread necromancy is discouraged and can also be an infractionable offense.

I suggest you edit your post to remove the question, pay for a subscription and ask about "Your" knife in its own thread in the correct subforum.
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Stop Necroposting Old Threads.
 
I don't know when they started importing the knives but they were available in the military gear shops around Ft. Bragg when I was in the 82Abn and I got out around the end of 1970. Jet Aer and Puma were neck in neck introducing the first knock offs of the Buck 110
 
I have several of the G96 7003 boot knives, and the copy of the Buck 118, G96 made copies of Buck and Al Mar Gerber knives
The 7003 boot was not a Buck copy since Buck never made a knife like that, to my knowledge.
The steel seems good.
The Boot knife sells very strong and is a very nice knife, the were sold at military bases PXs also.
The Al Mar design, a Gerber copy with plastic handle are rare and sell strong.
The G96 company is still in business in New Jersey the sell lubricant to the military etc. they drop the knife line years ago.
I think the first G96 knife would be dated about 1972 or 1973
They would barely be in the Viet Nam War timeline, many though the boot was a Buck until a closer look you discover not. Note the knife sheath were exactly the same on the Buck copies and very well done.
 
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