Just looking at my Cooper 44L today. My wife purchased this jacket around '88 for me because the AF wasn't handing them out when I was in for incentive purposes and today, it looks almost new. The goatskin shines, all the mfg tags are intact. Close to the pic in post #6 but not as worn and my Velcro patch is from Cooper Co.
Cooper is number one in Mil flight jackets for the real thing, no third party, after market with these people's products. The second mil jacket mfg is anything from Alpha Industries. Great stuff.