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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Sponsor

Honored by:
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Chapman

C. C. Moseley joined the Air Service of the Army Signal Corps in 1917, completed his training in Prance, and flew combat for seven months as Flight Comm, 27th Aero Sq, 1st Pursuit Grp. He was credited with destroying, in combat, one Boche 2-seater. He returned to Washington, D.C, in August 1919, to the office of Chief of Air Service, as chief test pilot for the Army, in Prance and USA.
In November, 1920, Moseley won the first Pulitzer International Air Race, Mitchell Field, Long Island, NY. The Verville-Packard he flew won the race at a speed of 178 mph for the 132 mile circuit. The plane later made 186 mph in this speed race, but the engine blew.
Co-founder and first pilot for the fledgling Western Air Express, later to become Western Airlines, Moseley established the first regularly scheduled commercial airline flights- the Salt Lake City to Los Angeles route, April, 1926. He selected the "Four Horsemen" from a Nat'l. Guard squadron of which he was Commandant: Maury Graham, C.N. Jimmy James (who carried Will Rogers on the LA-SLC run), Fred Kelly, Al DeGarmo, as pilots.
From Washington, D.C, he flew && Dayton, Ohio under Gen. Billy Mitchell, later moving to So. Calif, eventually purchasing Grand Central Airport in Glendale, from Curtiss-Wright. (The control tower at GCAT can still be seen in the wonderful movie "Casablanca"!)
Prior to World War II, he expanded his aeronautical/engineering schools for the training of 25,000 pilots and 13,000 mechanics for the USAF and the RAF.
After the war, he served on the boards of Curtiss-Wright, Douglas, American, Pan Am and of course, Western Airlines.