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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Leonard E. Capon, an aeronautical Engineer, worked for 35 years on a number of major aerospace programs including the Apollo Moon Landing, the B-70 mach-3 bomber, and numerous other programs, finally performing design engineering on the 30mm M230 chain gun for the AH-64 Apache helicopter.

After retiring from industry he worked as a volunteer docent at the Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum on Falcon Field Airport, Mesa, Arizona until the museum closed and the aircraft were transferred to the Museum of Flight, Seattle, Washington.