--- title: "You can now score Tom Cruise’s very own ‘Maverick’ helmet from ‘Top Gun’" date: "2020-07-20" modified: "2020-07-20" authors: - name: "Jared Keller" job_title: "Former Managing Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/top-gun-maverick-helmet-auction/" categories: - "Aircraft" - "Culture" - "Entertainment" - "Fighter Aircraft" - "Mandatory Fun" - "Tech & Tactics" --- # You can now score Tom Cruise’s very own ‘Maverick’ helmet from ‘Top Gun’ ![]() You may not have many opportunities to go inverted over an enemy fighter anytime soon, but you can still rock the same style that Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell does in *Top Gun* thanks to an [upcoming auction](). First [noticed]() by our eagle-eyed friends at The War Zone, auction house The Prop Store is holding a live auction in Los Angeles from August 26-27 that includes more than 850 remarkable props from legendary movies. Those props [includ]()e Rocky Balboa's boxing gloves, Obi Wan Kenobi's lightsaber hilt, and Maverick's original helmet and oxygen mask from the set of the 1986 film:. The helmet, a customized Navy Gentex HGU-33 with the telltale 'Maverick' splashed across the brow, wasn't just a helmet: as The War Zone points out, Cruise and other *Top Gun* actors wore their gear while filming scenes for the classic movie in the back seat of an F-14 Tomcat. The helmet is expected to sell for around $50,000 at auction, but unfortunately, you won't be able to grab the matching flight suit, which [sold at another Prop Store auction back in September 2017](). Then again, there's always the 'Barf' flight suit from *Spaceballs*, which is also up for auction: ![]() *Barf's flight suit from 'Spaceballs'* Learn more about the upcoming auction [here](), and visit The War Zone for [more on Maverick's distinctive helmet](). ***Related: [Why Maverick is still a captain 30 years after 'Top Gun,' according to the Navy]()*** ## Author Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications. ### Author social links [Twitter]() [Facebook]() [LinkedIn]() [Instagram]()