The U.S. Ballooning Hall of Fame is located at the

National Balloon Museum The National Balloon Museum is a non-profit museum in Indianola, Iowa. It was founded in 1975 in short term locations, later gaining a permanent location in 1988. All of the museum's exhibits are about hot air ballooning and gas ballooning. The mu ...

Indianola, Iowa Indianola is a city in Warren County, Iowa, United States, located south of downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The population was 15,833 at the time of the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Warren County. Indianola is home to the National Balloon ...

. The

Hall of Fame A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...

"recognizes persons who have contributed in significant ways to the sport and or development of

Ballooning Ballooning may refer to: * Hot air ballooning * Balloon (aeronautics) * Ballooning (spider) * Ballooning degeneration, a disease * Memory ballooning See also * Balloon (disambiguation) A balloon is a flexible container for (partially or fully) co ...

." The following persons have been inducted into the Hall of Fame: *2004: Paul E. (Ed) Yost *2005: Don N. Kersten, Sidney D. Cutter *2006: Bruce Comstock, Peter Pellegrino *2007: Deke Sonnichsen, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes *2008: Tracy Barnes, Eddie Allen *2009: Jim Winker, Lucy Luck Stefan, Karl H. Stefan *2010: Anthony M. Fairbanks, Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., Thomas A.F. Sheppard *2011: Ben L. Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, Dewey Reinhard *2012: Carol Rymer Davis, Dr. William Grabb, Matt Wiederkehr *2013: Dennis E. Floden, William Murtorff, Dr. Clayton Lay Thomas *2014: Nikki Caplan, Chauncey Dunn,

Don Piccard Donald Louis Piccard (January 13, 1926 – September 13, 2020) was a Swiss-born American balloon pioneer, promoter, innovator, designer, builder, and pilot. Piccard was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to Jean Felix Piccard and Jeanette (Ridlon ...

*2015: Robert Dodds Meddock, Jr., Constance C. Wolf *2016: Troy Bradley, Bill Bussey, Bob Sparks *2017: David Levin,

Steve Fossett James Stephen Fossett (April 22, 1944 – September 3, 2007) was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraf ...

Thaddeus Lowe Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe (August 20, 1832 – January 16, 1913), also known as Professor T. S. C. Lowe, was an American Civil War aeronaut, scientist and inventor, mostly self-educated in the fields of chemistry, meteorology, and a ...

*2018: Debbra Spaeth, Alan Blount, Ward Van Orman * 2019: Eleanor Vadala, Jim Birk—McAllen, Nick Saum *2020: Coy Foster, Mark Sullivan

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U.S. Ballooning Hall of FameNational Balloon Museum
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