2002

was was recognized with the Aviation Achievement Award in 2002 The Kentucky Air National Guard received the 2002 Aviation Achievement Award for their service to Kentucky and the nation in […]

Gen. William Thurman is U.S. Naval Academy graduate who accepted a U.S. Air Force commission. He was a T-38 flight instructor, and he flew Top Gun in Vietnam in the

A Cold War veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Roy Shoffner set his sights on raising a Lockheed P-38 Lightening from beneath Greenland’s ice cap and restoring her to flight.

Scrappy Johnson served his country as a pilot in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He won the 1958 Collier Trophy for breaking the world altitude record in the F-104A

A veteran of WW II’s daring and deadly 1943 Ploesti oilfield raids, Col. Dabney was an early OSS agent and flew one of the two planes that destroyed the bridge