The Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame was established by the Colorado Aviation Historical Society

Colorado Aviation Historical Society

The Colorado Aviation Historical Society is located in Denver, Colorado and founded in 1966. CAHS home is at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum...

 (CAHS) in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

, USA, on November 11, 1969 for the State of Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

. The original and first ten Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

 aviation

Aviation

Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...

 pioneers were inducted into the Hall on that date. Guest speaker for the event was author Ernest K Gann. The Hall of Fame is part of the Society's Heritage Hall in the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum

Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum

The Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum is located on the former grounds of Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado. The museum, which opened in 1994, is housed in the Hangar #1 built in 1939. The museum preserves the history of Lowry AFB's operations from 1938 to 1994 in its...

, Denver, Colorado.

Originally, to be considered for the Hall of Fame, ones' pioneering activities were to be completed before November 11, 1918. Subsequently, the cut-off date was changed to 1935, then eliminated. Aviation pioneering including development of airports, air mail routes, flying training facilities, flight management and map

Map

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ping, aviation and aerospace

Aerospace

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 manufacturing and maintenance, aviation weather

Weather

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 tracking and forecasting, teaching and educating, advancements in aviation business, and military

Military

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 achievements. These are some of the activities that challenged Colorado aviators and aviation business persons.

In the first 25 years of the Hall of Fame, over 160 Coloradans and organizations have been inducted and so honored.

Original ten inductees of 1969

• 1) Ivy Baldwin^Bio
• 2) Allan F. Bonnalie
• 3) Ira Boyd "Bumps" Humphreys - See Grant-Humphreys Mansion
  Grant-Humphreys Mansion
  Grant-Humphreys Mansion in Denver, Colorado, was built in 1902, in the Neoclassical style of architecture by Boal and Harnois, for James Benton Grant following his one term as the third Governor of Colorado...
  
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• 4) Albert E. Humphreys
• 5) Will D. "Billy" Parker
• 6) Chriss J. Peterson
• 7) Reginald Sinclaire
• 8) George W. Thompson
  George Thompson (aviator)
  George W. Thompson was a self-taught aviator, and is one of the first Coloradan flyers. He was born near Sharon Springs, Kansas. Thompson built a Matthewson biplane, a Curtiss design, and soloed it on January 4, 1911.-History:...
  
  
• 9) Frank A. Van Dersari
• 10) Jerry Cox Vasconcells
  Jerry Vasconcells
  Captain Jerry Cox Vasconcells was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. Vasconcells was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame in its first ceremony of 1969.-History:...
  
  , World War I
  World War I
  World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
  
   Ace
  Flying ace
  A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
  
  

List of current inductees

• Complete list

See also

• Robert Six
  Robert Six
  Robert Forman Six was the CEO of Continental Airlines from 1936 to 1981. Six's career began in the earliest days of U.S. commercial aviation. His determined, scrappy, risk-taking nature paid off for Continental Airlines, the company that would for forty-five years be forged in his image...
  
  
• Early Birds of Aviation
  Early Birds of Aviation
  The Early Birds of Aviation is an organization devoted to the history of early pilots. The organization was started in 1928 and ultimately accepted a membership of 598. Membership was limited to those who piloted a glider, gas balloon, or airplane, prior to December 17, 1916. The cutoff date was...
  
  
• Timeline of aviation
  Timeline of aviation
  This article does not contain direct references or citations but it builds upon other articles in Wikipedia which you can find in the links and in the year by year articles to the left. Those articles have references and citations...
  
  
• Wright brothers
  Wright brothers
  The Wright brothers, Orville and Wilbur , were two Americans credited with inventing and building the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903...
  
  
• Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
  Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
  The Aviation Hall Of Fame & Museum of New Jersey was founded in 1972 and preserves New Jersey's aviation and space heritage. The museum displays historic aircraft, space equipment, artifacts, photographs, art and a model collection, many of which were donations from private sources. It is the first...
  
  
• National Aviation Hall of Fame
  National Aviation Hall of Fame
  The American National Aviation Hall of Fame is located at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, east Dayton, Ohio...
  
  
• Utah Aviation Hall of Fame
  Utah Aviation Hall of Fame
  The Utah Aviation Hall of Fame was established in 1996 to honor and recognize individuals in the State of Utah who have contributed significantly to Utah aviation...
  
  
• military aviation
  Military aviation
  Military aviation is the use of aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling warfare, including national airlift capacity to provide logistical supply to forces stationed in a theater or along a front. Air power includes the national means of conducting such...
  
  
• civil aviation
  Civil aviation
  Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military aviation, both private and commercial. Most of the countries in the world are members of the International Civil Aviation Organization and work together to establish common standards and recommended practices...
  
  
• commercial aviation
  Commercial aviation
  Commercial aviation is the part of civil aviation that involves operating aircraft for hire to transport passengers or cargo...
  
  
• general aviation
  General aviation
  General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...
  
  

External links

• Colorado Aviation Historical Society (CAHS) official website
• Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, Denver CO
• CAF: American Combat Airman Hall of Fame