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National Aviation Hall of Fame
Located in Dayton, Ohio, the National Aviation Hall of Fame is dedicated to honoring the outstanding pioneers of air and space.
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Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (born 1923, died 1998)
American astronaut; first American in space.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Albert Boyd
Set a world air-speed record in 1947.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Albert F. Hegenberger
Co-pilot on the first flight from the mainland U.S. to Hawaii.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Albert C. Read
Piloted the first airplane to cross the Atlantic Ocean (with a stop in the Azores), in 1919.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Alexander Graham Bell (born 1847, died 1922)
American inventor who specialized in telecommunications and aircraft.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Alexander P. DeSeversky (born 1894, died 1974)
Russian World War I ace who emigrated to the U.S. and became a noted aeronautical engineer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Alfred A. Cunningham
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Allan H. Lockheed
American airplane designer; founder of the Lockheed Aircraft Company.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Alvin M. ''Tex'' Johnston
Boeing test pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Anthony H.G. Fokker
German pilot who perfected a firing system for fighter planes.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Anthony W. LeVier
Lockheed test pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (born 1912)
American Air Force general.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Benjamin D. Foulois
Early U.S. Army test pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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C. Benjamin Eielson
American pilot, who made the first crossing of the Arctic Ocean in 1928.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Bernard A. Schriever (born 1910)
U.S. Air Force general.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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William ''Billy'' Mitchell (born 1879, died 1936)
American air officer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Bernt Balchen
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Cyrus R. Smith
Prsident of American Airlines; U.S. secretary of commerce.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Calbraith P. Rodgers
First pilot to cross the U.S. by airplane, in 1911.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Carl B. Macready
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Carl L. Norden
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Carl A. Spaatz (born 1891, died 1974)
First U.S. Air Force chief of staff.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Chance M. Vought
Founder of the Chance Vought aeronautical design firm.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Charles E. ''Chuck'' Yeager (born 1923)
American Air Force officer and test pilot. First person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Charles A. Lindbergh (born 1902, died 1974)
American aviator. First person to make a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, in 1927.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Charles S. Draper
American aeronautical engineer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Charles F. Kettering (born 1876, died 1958)
American electrical engineer; president and general manager of General Motors Research Corp.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Charles E. Taylor
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Claire L. Chennault (born 1890, died 1958)
U.S. Army Air Corps commander in China during World War II; organized the ''Flying Tigers.''
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Clarence D. Chamberlin
Pilot who beat Lindbergh's nonstop distance record when he flew from New York to Germany in 1927.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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T. Claude Ryan
Founder of Ryan Airlines, which provided the first regular daily air passenger service, from Los Angeles to San Diego, in 1925.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Clyde V. Cessna
American stunt pilot and aircraft designer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Collett Everman ''C.E.'' Woolman (died 1966)
President of Delta Air, 1945-65.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Curtis E. LeMay (born 1906, died 1990)
American Air Force general and chief of the Strategic Air Command.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Daniel ''Chappie'' James, Jr.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Daniel J. Haughton
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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David S. Ingalls
U.S. Navy pilot in World War I.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Donald W. Douglas
Airplane designer; founder of the Douglas Company.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Edward V. Rickenbacker (born 1890, died 1973)
World War I U.S. Army flying ace; later general manager of Eastern Airlines.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Edward Wells
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Edwin A. Link
American pilot who invented the flight simulator in the 1920s.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Elmer A. Sperry, Sr.
Founder of the Sperry Gyroscope Company.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Elrey B. Jeppesen
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Eugene B. Ely
Early test pilot; first aviator to take off and land from a ship at sea.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Francis S. Gabreski
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Frank M. Andrews
American general; commander of the U.S. Army Air Corps in the 1930s.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Frank K. Everest
U.S. Air Force colonel; early supersonic fighter pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Frank P. Lahm
A balloon and dirigible pilot for the U.S. Army.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Frank Luke, Jr.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Frederick C. Crawford
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Frederick B. Rentschler
Airplane engine designer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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George ''Scratchley'' Brown (born 1918, died 1978)
U.S. Air Force general. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1974-78.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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George W. Goddard
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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George C. Kenney
American World War II bomber pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Gerhard Neumann
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (born 1886, died 1960)
Italian-born American aircraft designer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Glenn H. Curtiss (born 1878, died 1930)
American aviator and airplane designer and builder; founder of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Company.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Glenn L. Martin (born 1886, died 1955)
American aircraft manufacturer; founder of the Martin Company.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Grover Loening
American aircraft developer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Hans P. von Ohain
German engineer who developed the turbojet engine.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Harry F. Guggenheim
Set up the Full Flight Laboratory, which conducted pioneering studies in blind flying.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Henry H. ''Hap'' Arnold (born 1886, died 1950)
Commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Henry Ford (born 1863, died 1947)
American industrialist. An early champion of assembly-line manufacturing.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Henry W. Walden
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Holden C. Richardson
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Howard R. Hughes (born 1905, died 1976)
Eccentric American billionaire who became a recluse in later life. Built the Spruce Goose, the world's largest wooden aircraft.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Hoyt Vandenberg (born 1899, died 1954)
U.S. Air Force general.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Ira C. Eaker
World War II U.S. Army Air Forces general; earlier set a world flight endurance record.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Jack Frye
American pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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James H. Doolittle (born 1896, died 1993)
World War II U.S. Army Air Forces general who led bombing raids over Japan.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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James H. Kindelberger
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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James S. McDonnell (born 1899, died 1980)
American aeronautical engineer; founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John Leland Atwood
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John A. Macready
Co-pilot on the first nonstop flight across the U.S., in 1923.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John C. Meyer
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John J. Montgomery
American amateur aviator; designed a tandem-winged glider.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John K. Northrop (born 1895, died 1981)
American aircraft engineer and designer; founder of Northrop Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John P. Stapp
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John H. Towers
Commander of U.S. Navy Flying Boats (1919).
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Joseph Foss
U.S. Marine bomber pilot in World War II.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Juan T. Trippe (born 1899, died 1981)
U.S. Navy bomber pilot in World War I. Founder of Pan American Airways.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Lawrence B. Sperry, Sr. (born 1893, died 1923)
American pilot and aircraft designer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Lawrence D. Bell (born 1894, died 1956)
American aircraft manufacturer; designer of the first supersonic airplane.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Leroy R. Grumman (born 1895, died 1982)
American aircraft manufacturer; founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Lincoln Beachey
Early American stunt pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Lloyd C. Stearman
American airplane mechanic.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Lowell Thomas (born 1892, died 1981)
American journalist and broadcaster.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Marc A. Mitscher
U.S. Navy vice-admiral; commander of air task force in World War II.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Mark E. Bradley
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Michael Collins (born 1930)
American astronaut.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Nathan F. Twining
American Air Force general.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Octave Chanute (born 1832, died 1910)
French-born American engineer known for designing and piloting gliders.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Reuben H. Fleet
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Richard Ira Bong (born 1920, died 1945)
American World War II fighter pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Richard Evelyn Byrd (born 1888, died 1957)
American naval officer, aviator and explorer who made the first flight over the North Pole in 1926 and the first flight over the South Pole in 1929.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert H. Goddard (born 1882, died 1945)
American physicist and rocketry pioneer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert R. Gilruth (born 1913)
American aerospace engineer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert E. Gross (born 1897, died 1961)
American aircraft industry executive; president of Lockheed Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert A. Hoover
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert C. Reeve
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert A. Rushworth (born 1924)
American experimental research pilot and Air Force general.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert Forman Six
President of Continental Airlines, 1938-82.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Robert M. Stanley
American test pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Roscoe Turner
American racing pilot and barnstormer known for carrying a lion cub on his flights.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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A. Roy Knabenshue
Dirigible pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Samuel P. Langley (born 1834, died 1906)
American astronomer and aviation pioneer; launched an unmanned aircraft in 1896.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Sanford A. Moss
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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A. Scott Crossfield (born 1921)
American aerospace engineer and test pilot. The first person to fly at twice the speed of sound.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Sherman M. Fairchild
Developed an aerial camera used to map New York City in 1922.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Theodore G. Ellyson
Early U.S. Navy pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Thomas S. Baldwin
Early dirigible designer and pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Thomas V. Jones (born 1920)
American aircraft industry executive; president of Northrop Aircraft, Inc.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Thomas H. Moorer (born 1912)
U.S. Navy admiral.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Thomas E. Selfridge (born 1882, died 1908)
Early American aviator.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Thornton A. Wilson (born 1921)
American aircraft industry executive; president of the Boeing Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Vincent T. Bendix (born 1882, died 1945)
American inventor; founder of the Bendiz Aviation Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Virgil I. ''Gus'' Grissom
American astronaut.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Walter H. Beech
American aircraft manufacturer; co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Walter M. Schirra (born 1923)
American astronaut.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Wernher von Braun (born 1912, died 1977)
German-American rocket engineer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Wiley H. Post (born 1899, died 1935)
American aviator, stunt pilot, and barnstormer. First solo flyer to circle the Earth. Killed, with humorist Will Rogers, in a plane crash.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Will Rogers (born 1879, died 1935)
American humorist, entertainer and actor. Killed, with famous pilot Wiley Post, in a plane crash.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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William P. Lear, Sr. (born 1903, died 1978)
American aircraft developer and manufacturer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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William T. Piper, Sr. (born 1881, died 1970)
American aircraft designer and manufacturer; founder of Piper Aircraft Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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William M. Allen
American aircraft industry executive; president of the Boeing Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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William E. Boeing (born 1881, died 1956)
American aircraft manufacturer; founder of the Boeing Corporation.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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William J. Knight (born 1929)
U.S. Air Force experimental test pilot.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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William A. Patterson
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John H. Glenn, Jr. (born 1921)
American astronaut; first American to orbit the Earth. Later a U.S. senator from Ohio.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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John W. Young (born 1930)
American astronaut. Commander of the first space-shuttle flight, in 1981.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Charles Conrad, Jr. (born 1930, died 1999)
American astronaut.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Frank Borman (born 1928)
American astronaut; later president of Eastern Airlines.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Theodore von Kármán (born 1881, died 1963)
Hungarian-born American aeronautical engineer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Clarence L. Johnson
American aeronautical designer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Igor I. Sikorsky (born 1889, died 1972)
Russian-born American aeronautical engineer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Edward H. Heinemann
American aviator and engineer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Arthur Godfrey (born 1903, died 1983)
American actor, singer, and television host.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Barry Goldwater (born 1909, died 1998)
American politician. U.S. senator from Arizona (1953-64, 1969-87); Republican candidate for President in 1964.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Wilbur Wright (born 1867, died 1912)
American inventor, aviation pioneer, and airplane manufacturer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Orville Wright (born 1871, died 1948)
American inventor, aviation pioneer, and aircraft manufacturer.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
National Aviation Hall of Fame
Located in Dayton, Ohio, the National Aviation Hall of Fame is dedicated to honoring the outstanding pioneers of air and space.
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Amelia Earhart (Putnam) (born 1898, died 1937)
First female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic. Disappeared, with her navigator, during an attempt to circle the globe.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh (born 1907)
American aviator, author and poet. Wife of aviator Charles Lindbergh.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Jacqueline Cochran (born 1910, died 1980)
American aviator; first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Leigh Wade
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Olive A. Beech
Co-founder of the Beech Aircraft Company.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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Ruth R. Nichols
American pilot who set a transcontinental speed record in 1930.
- Member of the National Aviation Hall of Fame
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