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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. L. Dean Hoagland

After completing flight instruction as a cadet in the Civilian Pilot Training program in 1940, J.I. "Bud" Hoagland worked as a flight instructor prior to his beginning a 34 year career with Western Air Lines on August 17, 1942. The outbreak of World War II led to the transfer of planes. Western's involvement in "Operation Sourdough," and pilots, as part of the Air Transport Command, to the military in 1944. It was during this time of flying materials from Edmonton, Canada to Nome, Alaska in a C-47 that he was checked out as Captain and moved to the left seat.
As one of aviation's pioneers during the "Golden Age" of commercial flight he was initially based in Salt Lake City, Utah, moved for a few years to Denver, Colorado, and then transferred back to Salt Lake City for several years. His logbook during this time records hours flown in the Boeing 247D, the Lockheed Lodestar, the Douglas DC-3 and its military variant the C-47, and the Convair 240. He flew these classic "propliners" across the Dakotas at night, dodging summer tornados and thunderstorms prior to the invention of on-board radar, and navigated winter's worst weather with the notoriously unreliable radio ranges in the Salt Lake Valley.
A transfer to Los Angeles, California afforded an opportunity for hours in the Douglas DC-6B, and as Western entered the "Jet Age" he was checked out in the Lockheed L-188 Electra, the Boeing 707 and the Boeing 720B. He concluded his career on October 1, 1976 flying the Douglas DC-10.
Some of the routes flown included flights from Salt Lake up through Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and on into Canada. From Denver he has flown routes across the plains to Minneapolis. From Los Angeles there were routes up the West Coast to Seattle, southward to Mexico City, or westbound to Honolulu, Hawaii.