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was recognized with the Aviation Achievement Award in 1999 Pulaski County native Rose Will Monroe went to work building B-24 and B-29 bombers at Ford’s Willow Run Aircraft Factory when, […]

This Lexington native was a successful farmer, inventor and businessman. Between 1910 and 1916 he invented several parachute devices for saving aviators’ lives, receiving patents in 1916. Entering the US

Al Ueltschi was a depression-era dairy-farm boy from Franklin County, Kentucky who brought continuing airline-type training to the corporate pilot field. He founded FlightSafety International in the early ’50s when

A Pikeville native, trained in the U.S. Air Service in 1920 and 1921 and thereafter “barnstormed” and operated a flight training and charter service in eastern Kentucky. Later, in Cincinnati,

Gen Noel Parrish, a native of Lexington, had a dramatic impact on the U.S. Armed Forces and our entire nation. He was the white commanding officer of Tuskegee Army Air

A resident of Beaver Creek, Ohio, Ervin Nutter was born in Hamilton, Ohio. He is a 1943 UK Graduate with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He paid for his education

born in Boston, Mass., considers Lexington his hometown following medical study at the University of Kentucky in the 1960s. He earned an MD from Columbia University. He has over 17,700

Born in Corbin, Kentucky, 90 years ago, Evelyn Bryan Johnson has logged more than 57,000 flight hours. She is a current Flight Instructor, an FAA Flight Examiner and has been

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

Gen Gregory completed over 35 years of Air Force service before retiring in 1988. He held every level of command in the fighter business including a fighter squadron in the