Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame (AAHOF) is located in the Pima Air & Space Museum

Pima Air & Space Museum

The Pima Air & Space Museum features a display of nearly 300 aircraft spread out over 80 acres on a campus occupying 127 acres . Located in Tucson, Arizona, it is one of the world's largest, non-government funded aerospace museums...

, Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

 which recognises Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

'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.

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

Aviation history

The history of aviation has extended over more than two thousand years from the earliest attempts in kites and gliders to powered heavier-than-air, supersonic and hypersonic flight.The first form of man-made flying objects were kites...

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Arizona AHOF recognizes its aviation industry leaders, pioneers in hot air balloon

Hot air balloon

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful human-carrying flight technology. It is in a class of aircraft known as balloon aircraft. On November 21, 1783, in Paris, France, the first untethered manned flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in a hot air...

ing of the 19th century, high-tech aerospace engineers and entrepreneurs, where these people of today who are a vital role in advanced aircraft

Aircraft

An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air, or, in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.Although...

 and missile

Missile

Though a missile may be any thrown or launched object, it colloquially almost always refers to a self-propelled guided weapon system.-Etymology:The word missile comes from the Latin verb mittere, meaning "to send"...

 technology

Technology

Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...

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Hall of Fame Inductees

2010

• Barbara Lee Harper
• Maj. Gen. Donald L. Owens, AANG (Ret)
• Clifford M. Sterrenberg

2009

• Kenneth H. Dahlberg
  Kenneth H. Dahlberg
  Kenneth Harry Dahlberg was an American businessman and highly decorated World War II fighter ace.-Early life:...
  
  
• 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
  Ralph Gibson (fighter pilot)
  Ralph "Hoot" Duane Gibson was an American flying ace of the Korean War. He became the nation's third jet fighter ace with a total tally of five downed MiG-15 fighters. He also flew in the Vietnam War, and was a former lead pilot for the Air Force Thunderbirds.-Early life:Gibson was born in 1924,...
  
  , 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

• Frederick E. Ferguson
• Gordon B. Hamilton
• Robert McCall
  Robert McCall (artist)
  Robert McCall was a conceptual artist, known particularly for his works of space art. McCall was an illustrator for Life magazine in the 1960s, created promotional artwork for Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey and Richard Fleischer's production Tora! Tora! Tora! and worked as an artist...
  
  
• Raymond Victor Schwanbeck

2000

• LTC David Althoff, USMC (Ret)
• Janet Harman Bragg
• John H. "Jack" Connelly & Leland Hayward
• Jack Womack
  Jack Womack
  Jack Womack is an American author of fiction and speculative fiction. He lives in New York City with his wife and daughter, and works as a publicity manager for the Orbit and Yen imprints of Hachette Book Group USA....
  
  

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
  Patty Wagstaff is an aerobatic pilot from the United States. Wagstaff traveled all over the world as a child: her father was a pilot for Japan Airlines, and Wagstaff would travel to Southeast Asia, Australia and Alaska to prepare for her own career as a pilot...
  
  

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
  Frank Borman
  Frank Frederick Borman, II is a retired NASA astronaut and engineer, best remembered as the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon, making him, along with fellow crew mates Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, the first of only 24 humans to do so...
  
  
• Walter Douglas, Jr.
• Sen. Barry M. Goldwater
• Frank Luke, Jr.