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  • Lt Col Don Taylor
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    Wall of Honor Level:
    Air and Space Friend

    Honored by:
    LTC Donald P. Taylor

    Awards and accomplishments (flying):
    - Combat World War II (WWII), C.P.I., P-40
    - Fighter pilot 1943-1944
    - 79 missions

    Awards:
    - Air Medal with Cluster
    - Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC)
    - Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) (Department of Transportation/Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

    Retired USAF 1962, LtCol, Command Pilot.

    Some Accomplishments, all solo:
    Firsts:
    The smallest home-built aircraft a Thorp T-18 I built myself (N455DT officially N.A.A., Class C.1.b.)
    - Flown around the world and to Japan & the Far East.
    - Flown non-stop across the US.
    - Flown in the North Atlantic, North. Pacific, South Pacific, from the US to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand and return

    Hold about 25 world and U.S. records. Holder of the Harmon-Inter Trophy 1984

    82 yrs. old, still flying (solo)

    1st license issued by CAA. Oct 1940

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