was recognized with the Aviation Achievement Award in 2003 Shawnee High School Magnet Career Academy’s Aerospace/Aviation Travel/Tourism Aviation Program in Louisville is a four-year program offering specialized courses to help […]
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David Lee “Tex” Hill was born in Kwang Ju, Korea, on July 13, 1915. His missionary family returned to the US in 1916 and lived in Louisville, Kentucky, while his
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Hugh Lee Grundy, born in 1916 at Valley Hill, Kentucky, earned his pilot’s license at Louisville’s Bowman Field. He attended Curtis Wright Institute of Aeronautics and Plosser Flying School, and
Willa Beatrice Brown was born in 1906 in Glasgow, Kentucky. She graduated from Wiley High School in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1923, attended Indiana State Teachers College and was, at
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Born in 1916 in Thayer, Nebraska, Esther Mueller began flight lessons while working at Lincoln Aeronautical Institute in Lincoln, Nebraska. Trained by Joe Ammerman of Cynthiana, Kentucky, she soloed on
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