- Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
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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 facility of its kind developed on a state level.[1] Its library has more than 4,000 volumes and hundreds of aviation video tapes. An annual expo is limited in actual flights due to its proximity to Newark International Airport.[1]
It is located at Teterboro Airport, the oldest operating airport in the Tri-State Region, at 400 Fred Wehran Drive, Teterboro, New Jersey.[2]
Contents
Honorees
Name Year of induction Arthur Raymond Brooks 1980 Aaron Krantz 1973 Albert E. Forsythe 1985 Amelia Earhart 1973 Aline Rhonie Hofheimer 2010 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Anthony Distefano 2005 Anthony Fokker 1974 Arlene B. Feldman Arthur Godfrey 1976 Barry Schiff Ben B. Rock 1977 Benjamin R. Cascio Bernice Falk Haydu Bernt Balchen 1975 Bert Acosta 1976 Boland brothers 1980 Charles A. Lindbergh 1973 Charles E. Durant 1981 Charles Emery Rosendahl 1980 Charles Joseph Fletcher 1989 Charles Healy Day 1981 Charles S. Jones 1984 Charles West 1977 Chester J. Decker 1985 Clarence Duncan Chamberlin 1973 Clyde Pangborn 1973 Cornelius J. Kraissl David A. Van Dyke Dean C. Smith Donald Arthur Luscombe 2006 Donald G. Borg 1974 Donald J. Strait Earl W. Estelle Edward Gorski 1973 Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. 1980 Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr. Floyd Bennett 1973 Francis R. Gerard 1983 Fred L. Wehran 1973 Fred Feldman Frederick Kuhnert Frederick W. Bohlander 1974 Frederick Walker Castle George Augustus Vaughn, Jr. 2006 George DeGarmo 1976 George Hicha 1979 George Meade George Walker Wiliam Gill Robb Wilson 1980 H. V. Pat Reilly 1993 Harold Curtis 1984 Harry A. Nordheim Harry Hamlen Henry Geleski 1978 Henyy J. Esposito 1986 Herbert D. Kelleher Herbert O. Fisher 1983 Hugh Dennis Wisely Issac Schlossbach Ivan Gates 1976 Jack Elliott 1986 Jack O. Webster 1974 James Hart Wyld James Holahan James O. Plinton, Jr. 2006 Jean Pierre Blanchard John W. Olcott 1998 Juan T. Trippe 1975 Jo Kotula John E. Thomson 1979 John M. Habermann John S. Penn, Sr. Jules Decrescendo 1983 Julia Gorski 1978 Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan 1987 Kay A. Brick 1978 Kenneth A. Walsh Kenneth R. Unger 1981 Leo Loudenslager 1982 Louis G. Ranley 1977 Louis T. Reichers Lowell E. White 2006 Malcolm S. Forbes 1985 Michael Bachik Jr. 2004 Michael J. Jackson Neville E. Watson Oliver Colin LeBoutillier Oliver George Simmons 1987 O. R. Herbert 1975 Paul G. Styger Paul Garber 1987 Phillip J. Landi 1986 R.B.C. Noorduyn 1978 Ralph S. Barnaby 1981 Richard C. Cosgrave 2005 Richard C. Dehmel Robert E. Johnson Richard Evelyn Byrd Richard F. Gillis Richard Switlik, Sr. Robert Joseph Collier 1984 Robert L. Copsey 1981 Robert Nietzel Buck 1981 Robert R. Golem Roger O. Williams 1975 Roy LaGrone Royal French Ryder 1979 Russell R. White Ruth Rowland Nichols Samuel C. Barnitt 1977 Sander Lawrance Silvio Cavalier 1987 Solomon Andrews 1980 Stanley Switlik Terry Jonathan Hart Thomas A. Murchio 1983 Thomas B. McGuire, Jr. 1982 Thomas J. O'Malley Thomas W. Robertson 1983 Thor Solberg 1985 Vincent Justus Burnelli Walter M. Hartung Walter M. Schirra 1982 William A. Hartig 1974 William A. Hughes 1983 William Diehl 1973 William Halsey, Jr. 1988 William J. Conrad William E. Rhode 1984 William J. Picune 1979 Wittemann brothers 1973 Aviation timeline for New Jersey- 1793 French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascended from Philadelphia, flew across the Delaware River and landed in Deptford, New Jersey. The Western Hemisphere’s first flight took 45 minutes and covered 15 miles on January 9.
- 1830 Charles Durant of Jersey City, New Jersey became the first American balloonist to fly.
- 1863 Solomon Andrews (balloonist) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey constructed and flew the first American dirigible.
- 1909 The Boland brothers of Rahway, New Jersey built and flew New Jersey's first fixed-wing aircraft. They were also the first to fly in South America.
- 1912 Oliver G. Simmons in a Wright Flyer carried the first official sack of mail across the Raritan Bay from South Amboy to Perth Amboy.
- 1918 Five New Jersey combat pilots became World War I flying aces.
- 1921 The world’s largest hangar and America’s first dirigible, the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), were built in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
- 1922 The world’s largest airplane, the Barling Bomber, was constructed at Teterboro Airport by the Wittemann brothers.
- 1923 Wright aeronautical air-cooled Whirlwind engines, built in Princeton, New Jersey.
- 1925 Hadley Field in South Plainfield, New Jersey was established as an airmail hub.
- 1926 Teterboro-built Fokker trimotor powered by a Whirlwind engines was the first to fly over the North Pole with Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett at the controls.
- 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis powered by a Whirlwind engine. Two weeks later, Clarence Chamberlin in a Wright-Bellanca built in Princeton, New Jersey flew to Germany with a Whirlwind engine. A month later, Richard Byrd used a Whirlwind engine to fly to France.
- 1928 Newark Airport opened.
- 1929 William Conrad (New Jersey) at Newark Airport was America's first air traffic controller.
- 1930 Fokker build’s the world’s largest passenger plane, a Fokker F.32 at Teterboro Airport.
- 1930 Eddie August Schneider of Jersey City, New Jersey established the transcontinental airspeed record for people under 18 years of age.
- 1932 Amelia Earhart prepares for her solo transatlantic flight at Teterboro Airport
- 1933 Teaneck, New Jersey established the first high school aviation course in the nation.
- 1933 The Navy dirigible USS Akron (ZRS-4) crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Barnegat, New Jersey.
- 1936 Chester Decker of Glen Rock, New Jersey becomes the National Soaring Champion. He won the title again in 1939.
- 1937 Hindenburg ignites at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
- 1941 Civil Air Patrol is founded in New Jersey by Gill Robb Wilson.
- 1942-1945 General Motors’ Eastern Aircraft Division built 13,500 Grumman fighter planes at Linden and Trenton plants. The Curtiss-Wright Corporation built 281,164 engines and 146,468 electric propellers in plants in six north Jersey locations.
- 1945 Major Thomas McGuire of Ridgewood, New Jersey became America’s second leading flying ace with 38 enemy kills.
- 1945 General Frederick Castle of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 1st Lt. Kenneth Walsh of Jersey City and McGuire were recipients of the Medal of Honor.
- 1947 Reaction Motors of Denville, New Jersey developed the rocket engine for the Bell X-1
- 1949 Bill Odom flew a single-engine Beach Bonanza non-stop from Hawaii to Teterboro.
- 1953 Charles J. Fletcher of Sussex, New Jersey invents and flies the world’s first hovercraft.
- 1968 Walter M. Schirra of Oradell, New Jersey becomes the only astronaut to fly in all three spacecraft. The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
- 1969 Edwin Aldrin of Montclair, New Jersey was the first astronaut to land a vehicle on the moon.
- 1973 Malcolm Forbes of Far Hills, New Jersey made the first coast-to-coast flight in a hot air balloon.
- 1980 Leo Loudenslager, of Sussex, New Jersey won the World Aerobatic championship. Throughout his career he won seven National Aerobatic championships.
- 1984 Astronaut Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, of Paterson, New Jersey was the first woman to walk in space.
- 1991 During Desert Storm, Major Marie Rossi of Oradell, New Jersey was the first American woman to fly in combat.
- 1991 Rick Trader flew his home-built Ultralight aircraft 15,000 miles from coast to coast and north to Alaska before returning to New Jersey.
- 1994 Kenneth Johnson (pilot) and Larry Cioppi of Ringoes, New Jersey flew around the world in their Glasair monoplane.
See also
- List of aerospace museums
- National Aviation Hall of Fame
- Naval Aviation Hall of Honor
- American Combat Airman Hall of Fame
- Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame
- Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame
- Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame
- Minnesota Aviation Hall of Fame
- Oklahoma Aviation and Space Hall of Fame
- Texas Aviation Hall of Fame
- Utah Aviation Hall of Fame
References
- ^ a b Robert Sullivan (2010-01-11). "Across the River - Flight Time". The New Yorker: pp. 27. ISSN 00028792X.
- ^ Teterboro: A General Aviation Town The Article Writer, October 11, 2005. Retrieved September 30, 2008.
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Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey 1973 Amelia Earhart / Anne Morrow Lindbergh / Floyd Bennett / Clarence Duncan Chamberlin / Clyde Pangborn / Wittemann brothers · 1974 Anthony Fokker · 1975 Juan Terry Trippe · 1976 Bert Blanchard Acosta / Arthur Godfrey · 1980 Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. / Boland brothers / Charles Emery Rosendahl / Gill Robb Wilson · 1981 Robert Nietzel Buck · 1982 Walter M. "Wally" Schirra · 1984 Robert J. Collier · 1985 Malcolm S. Forbes · 1987 Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan / Oliver George Simmons · 1988 William Halsey, Jr. / Frederick Walker Castle · 1989 Charles J. Fletcher · 1993 Jean-Pierre Blanchard · 1996 Vincent Justus Burnelli / Kenneth A. Walsh · 1998 Richard E. Byrd · 1999 Terry Jonathan Hart · 2002 Oliver Colin LeBoutillier
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- Museums in Bergen County, New Jersey
- Organizations established in 1972
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