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