Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame (AAHOF) is located in the
Pima Air & Space Museum
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Arizona
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's "Excellence in Aviation". The Aviation Hall of Fame exhibit is located in the honored ''Dorothy Finley Space Gallery'' on the Museum grounds. AAHOF provides to its visitors a presentation that share an opportunity to educate one with noteworthy Arizona aviators.
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History
AAHOF was established by a joint proclamation by the Governor of Arizona in 1985 that creates a process to induct its states notable and famous aviators into the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame; thus paying a tribute to Arizona's long and proud aviation history
The history of aviation extends for more than two thousand years, from the earliest forms of aviation such as kites and attempts at tower jumping to supersonic and hypersonic flight by powered, heavier-than-air jets.
Kite flying in China ...
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Arizona AHOF recognizes its aviation industry leaders, pioneers in hot air balloon
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ing of the 19th century, high-tech aerospace engineers and entrepreneurs
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, where these people of today who are a vital role in advanced aircraft
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and missile
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technology
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Hall of Fame Inductees
;2013
*Barbara McConnell Barrett
*Edward Raymond Beauvais
*Charles Eugene Mann
;2012
*Lt. Col. Mark Berent, USAF (Ret)
*Ralph A. O'Neill
*Arthur Van Haren, Jr.
;2011
*Edwin Jones Montgomery, Sr.
*Peter Hollingsworth Smith
*William Dillard "Billy" Walker
;2010
*Barbara Lee Harper
*Maj. Gen. Donald L. Owens, AANG (Ret)
*Clifford M. Sterrenberg
;2009
*Kenneth H. Dahlberg
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[Super Sabre Society]
*Major General Carl G. Schneider (Ret)[
*Ruby Wine Sheldon][
;2008
*Graham A. 'Lum' Edwards
*Laurence E. Gesell
*Arvin C. Schultz
*Hewitt T. Wheless
;2007
*Col. Fred Cone, USMC (Ret)
*Col. Roger Parrish, USAF (Ret)
*Elgin Newell
*Cheryl A. Stearns
;2006
*Harold "Bud" Abrams
*Donald C. Downie
*Ralph S. Johnson
*James Vercellino
;2005
*Joseph La Placa
*Roy O. McCaldin
*Hugh Stewart
*James Turnbow
;2004
*Roy M. Coulliette
*Irene Leverton
*John Richard Gasho Sr.
*Douglas T. Nelson, USAF Major General, Ret
;2003
* Ralph D. "Hoot" Gibson, USAF Col., Ret.
*Robert W. Waltz, USAF BGen., Ret. (1920–1995)
*Darrell Artwade Sawyer
*William S. Underwood, USAF Col., Ret.
;2002
*Brig. Gen. Joseph (Joe) Foss, USMC (Ret.)
*Raymond L. (Ray) Haupt
*Martha Ann Wilkins Mitchell & Michael (Mike) Mitchell
*Gladys Mae Morrison
;2001
* Major Frederick E. Ferguson, US Army (Ret)
*Gordon B. Hamilton
* Robert McCall][
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*Raymond Victor Schwanbeck
;2000
*LTC David Althoff, USMC (Ret)
*Janet Harman Bragg
*John H. "Jack" Connelly & Leland Hayward
*Jack Womack
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;1999
*Roy Spangler Davis
*Ronald R. Fogleman
*Ruth Dailey Helm & Dawn R. B. Seymour
*Joan Fay Shankle & Clarence E. Shankle
;1998
*David M. Jones
*Charles A. "Buck" Rowe
* Francis R. "Dick" Scobee
*Richard G. Snyder
;1997
*Frank K. "Pete" Everest
*Sen. John S. McCain
*A. Lee Moore
*Patty Wagstaff
Patty Wagstaff ( née Patricia Rosalie Kearns Combs; born September 11, 1951) is an American aviator and U.S. national aerobatic champion.
Wagstaff was introduced to aviation as a child; her father was a pilot for Japan Airlines. After gradu ...
;1996
*James R. Greenwood
*Anthony V. "Snag" Grossetta
*Samuel Harry Robertson
*William R. Sears
;1995
*Gerald Brown
*William P. Cutter & William R. Cutter
*Joseph A. Moller
*R. Dixon Speas
;1994
*Harry B. Combs
* John Clifford "Cliff" Garrett
*Lowell H. Smith
*Louise Timken
;1993
*Col. Leon W. Gray
*Col. Vernon V. Haywood
*Alfred A. Hudgin
*Charles O. Miller
;1992
*A. Howard Hasbrook
*Joseph C. Lincoln
*Charles W.
*George Varga, Jr.
;1991
*Ruth R. Reinhold
*George I. Steinke
*Ralph G. Vaughan
*Robert Woodhouse & Woodrow P. Jongeward
;1990
*Col. Frank Borman
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*Walter Douglas, Jr.
*Sen. Barry M. Goldwater
*Frank Luke, Jr.
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See also
* North American aviation halls of fame
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References
External links
Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame
at the Pima Air & Space Museum
The Pima Air & Space Museum, located in Tucson, Arizona, is one of the world's largest non-government funded aerospace museums. The museum features a display of nearly 300 aircraft spread out over 80 acres (320,000 m²) on a campus oc ...
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Culture of Tucson, Arizona
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