Boyington, Gregory 'Pappy' (Coeur D'Alene)
The World War II pilot made famous on TV's Baa Baa Black Sheep
Famous Aviators from United States
-
-
Cochran, Jacqueline (Muskogee)
The aviator who headed women pilots in World War II -
Coleman, Bessie (Atlanta)
The world's first licensed African-American pilot -
Corrigan, Douglas (Galveston)
The flier who 'accidentally' crossed the Atlantic -
Doolittle, James Harold (Alameda)
Leader of the bomber attack on Tokyo in 1942 -
Earhart, Amelia (Atchison)
The pioneering female pilot who disappeared in the South Pacific in 1937 -
Hughes, Howard (Houston)
The 20th century's famous billionaire aviator, businessman and recluse -
Kennedy, Joseph Jr. (Hull)
The older brother of president John Kennedy -
Lindbergh, Charles (Detroit)
The first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean -
Powers, Francis Gary (Jenkins)
The U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union in 1960 -
Selfridge, Thomas E. (San Francisco)
The first air crash fatality -
Slayton, Donald K. "Deke" (Sparta)
The 'Original Seven' astronaut who later flew Apollo-Soyuz -
Sullenberger, Chesley B. (Denison)
The pilot who landed flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009 -
Wright Brothers, The (Millville)
Inventors of the airplane -
Yeager, Chuck (Myra)
The pilot who broke the sound barrier