The National Aviation Hall of Fame
(With Year of Enshrinement)

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Dedicated to honoring and preserving the history of outstanding air and space pioneers, the Aviation Hall of Fame was established in Dayton, Ohio, on October 5, 1962, with five Daytonians as its founding fathers: James W. Jacobs, Gregory C. Karas, John A. Lombard, Larry E. O'Neil, and Gerald E. Weller. The first annual enshrinement ceremonies were held in December that same year. The United States Congress passed Public Law 88-372 in July 1964 granting the NAHF a national charter.

For additional information, contact the National Aviation Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 31096, Dayton, OH, 45342-0096; (937) 256-0944; Web: www.nationalaviation.org.

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  • Alison, John R. (2005)
  • Allen, William McPherson (1971)
  • Anders, William. (2004)
  • Andrews, Frank M. (1986)
  • Anderson, Clarence E. "Bud" (2008)
  • Armstrong, Harry George (1998)
  • Armstrong, Neil Alden (1979)
  • Arnold, Henry Harley (1967)
  • Atwood, J. Leland (1984)
  • Balchen, Bernt (1973)
  • Baldwin, Thomas Scott (1964)
  • Beachey, Lincoln (1966)
  • Beech, Olive Ann (1981)
  • Beech, Walter Herschel (1977)
  • Bell, Alexander Graham (1965)
  • Bell, Lawrence Dale (1977)
  • Bellanca, Giuseppe Mario (1993)
  • Bendix, Vincent Hugo (1991)
  • Boeing, William Edward (1966)
  • Bong, Richard L. (1986)
  • Borman, Frank (1982)
  • Boyd, Albert (1984)
  • Bradley, Mark E. (1992)
  • Brown, George Scratchley (1985)
  • Brukner, Clayton J. (1997)
  • Byrd, Richard Evelyn (1968)
  • Carl, Marion E. (2001)
  • Cernan, Eugene (2000)
  • Cessna, Clyde Vernon (1978)
  • Chamberlin, Clarence Duncan (1976)
  • Chanute, Octave (1963)
  • Chennault, Claire Lee (1972)
  • Cochran, Jacqueline (1972)
  • Collins, Eileen (2009)
  • Collins, Michael (1985)
  • Combs, Harry B. (1996)
  • Conrad, Charles, Jr. (1980)
  • Craigie, Laurence (2000)
  • Crawford, Frederick C. (1993)
  • Crossfield, A. Scott (1983)
  • Cunningham, Alfred Austell (1965)
  • Curtiss, Glenn Hammond (1964)
  • Dargue, Herbert A. (1997)
  • Davis, Jr. Benjamin O. (1994)
  • deSeversky, Alexander P. (1970)
  • Doolittle, James Harold (1967)
  • Douglas, Donald Wills (1969)
  • Draper, Charles Stark (1981)
  • Eaker, Ira Clarence (1970)
  • Earhart, Amelia (1968)
  • Eielson, Carl Benjamin (1985)
  • Ellyson, Theodore Gordon (1964)
  • Ely, Eugene Burton (1965)
  • Engle, Joe H. (2001)
  • Everest, Frank K. (1989)
  • Fairchild, Sherman Mills (1979)
  • Fleet, Rueben Hollis (1975)
  • Fokker, Anthony Herman Gerard (1980)
  • Ford, Henry (1984)
  • Foss, Joseph Jacob (1984)
  • Foulois, Benjamin Delahauf (1963)
  • Frye, William John (1992)
  • Fulton, Fitzhugh (1999)
  • Gabreski, Francis Stanley (1978)
  • Gentile, Dominic S. (1995)
  • Gilruth, Robert R. (1994)
  • Glenn, John Herschel, Jr. (1976)
  • Goddard, George William (1976)
  • Goddard, Robert Hutchings (1966)
  • Godfrey, Arthur (1987)
  • Goldwater, Barry Morris (1982)
  • Grissom, Virgil I. (1987)
  • Gross, Robert Ellsworth (1970)
  • Grumman, Leroy Randle (1972)
  • Guggenheim, Harry Frank (1971)
  • Haughton, Daniel J. (1987)
  • Hegenberger, Albert Francis (1976)
  • Heinemann, Edward Henry (1981)
  • Hoover, Robert A. (1988)
  • Hughes, Howard (1973)
  • Ingalls, David Sinton (1983)
  • James, Daniel, Jr. (1993)
  • Jeppesen, Elrey B. (1990)
  • Johnson, Clarence Leonard (1974)
  • Johnston, Alvin M. (1993)
  • Jones, Thomas V. (1992)
  • Kenney, George Churchill (1971)
  • Kettering, Charles Franklin (1979)
  • Kindelberger, James Howard (1972)
  • Kittinger, Jr., Joe W. (1997)
  • Knabenshue, A. Roy (1965)
  • Knight, William J. (1988)
  • Lahm, Frank Purdy (1963)
  • Langley, Samuel Pierpont (1963)
  • Lear, William Powerll, Sr. (1978)
  • LeMay, Curtis Emerson (1972)
  • LeVier, Anthony William (1978)
  • Lindbergh, Anne Morrow (1979)
  • Lindbergh, Charles Augustus (1967)
  • Link, Edwin Albert (1976)
  • Lockheed, Allan H. (1986)
  • Loening, Grover (1969)
  • Lovell, James Arthur, Jr. (1998)
  • Lufbery, Raoul Gervais (1998)
  • Luke, Frank, Jr. (1975)
  • MacCready, Paul B. (1991)
  • Macready, John Arthur (1968)
  • Martin, Glenn Luther (1966)
  • McCampbell, David (1996)
  • McDonnell, James Smith (1977)
  • McGuire, Jr., Thomas (2000)
  • Meyer, John C. (1988)
  • Russell W. Meyer, Jr. (2009)
  • Mitchell, William (1966)
  • Mitscher, Marc A. (1988)
  • Montgomery, John Joseph (1964)
  • Moorer, Thomas H. (1987)
  • Moss, Sanford Alexander (1976)
  • Neumann, Gerhard (1986)
  • Nichols, Ruth Rowland (1992)
  • Norden, Carl L. (1994)
  • Northrop, John Knudsen (1974)
  • Olds, Robin (2001)
  • Pangborn, Clyde Edward (1995)
  • Patterson, William Allan (1976)
  • Piasecki, Frank (2002)
  • Piper, William Thomas, Sr. (1980)
  • Pitcairn, Harold Frederick (1995)
  • Poberezny, Paul (1999)
  • Post, Wiley Hardeman (1969)
  • Quimby, Harriet (2004)
  • Read, Albert Cushing (1965)
  • Reeve, Robert Campbell (1965)
  • Rentschler, Frederick Brant (1982)
  • Richardson, Holden Chester (1978)
  • Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon (1965)
  • Ride, Sally (2007)
  • Rodgers, Calbraith Perry (1964)
  • Rogers, Will (1977)
  • Rushworth, Robert A. (1990)
  • Rutan, Elbert L. (1995)
  • Rutan, Richard (2002)
  • Ryan, T. Claude (1974)
  • Schirra, Walter M., Jr. (1986)
  • Schriever, Bernard Adolf (1980)
  • Selfridge, Thomas Etholen (1965)
  • Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr. (1977)
  • Sikorsky, Igor Ivan (1968)
  • Six, Robert Forman (1980)
  • Slayton, Donald K. “Deke“ (1996)
  • Smith, C.R. (1974)
  • Spaatz, Carl Andrew (1967)
  • Sperry, Elmert Ambrose, Sr. (1973)
  • Sperry, Lawrence Burst, Sr. (1981)
  • Stafford, Thomas P. (1997)
  • Stanley, Robert M. (1990)
  • Stapp, John Paul (1985)
  • Stearman, Lloyd C. (1989)
  • James Stewart (2009)
  • Stockdale, James (2002)
  • Taylor, Charles Edward (1965)
  • Thaden, Louise (1999)
  • Thomas, Lowell (1992)
  • Tibbets, Paul W., Jr. (1996)
  • Towers, John Henry (1966)
  • Trippe, Juan Terry (1970)
  • Turner, Roscoe (1975)
  • Twining, Nathan Farragut (1976)
  • Ueltschi, Albert Lee (2001)
  • Vandenberg, Hoyt S. (1991)
  • von Braun, Wernher (1982)
  • von Kármán, Theodore (1983)
  • von Ohain, Hans P. (1990)
  • Vought, Chance M. (1989)
  • Wade, Leigh (1974)
  • Wagstaff, Patricia 'Patty' (2004)
  • Walden, Henry W. (1964)
  • Wells, Edward Curtis (1991)
  • Edward H. White, II (2009)
  • Williams, Sam Barlow (1998)
  • Wilson, Thornton Arnold (1983)
  • Woolman, Collett Everman (1994)
  • Wright, Orville (1962)
  • Wright, Wilbur (1962)
  • Yeager, Charles Elwood (1973)
  • Young, John W. (1988)
  • Zemke, Hubert (2002)

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