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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. Dean Malotky

Oscar H. Malotky was born in Clintonville, Wisconsin and worked on the home farm and farming related jobs until World War II broke out and in February 1942 he was inducted into the Army Air Corp. This began his lifelong love of aviation. He served three years and nine months as an aircraft mechanic in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma. He was discharged from the Army Air Corp as a Staff Sergeant. He told stories about flying as a mechanic on bomber pilot training missions in the southwest were navigation occasionally consisted of flying down and reading an unknown town's name off the water tower.
On April 28,1947 he joined as a "pioneer" employee with the newly forming Wisconsin Central Airlines based in Clintonville, Wisconsin. His career developed and matured following the successes and growth of Wisconsin Central and its successors, North Central and Republic Airlines where he served for 34 and a half years. The merger of North Central and Southern to become Republic Airlines, Malotky was the lead of the Maintenance Integration Team. It was no small maintenance feat to keep aircraft flying in the Midwest winter. Malotky was a pioneer of commercial aviation providing the maintenance support necessary for the safety and growth of an industry.
The first aircraft were Lockheed 10-A followed by DC-3, then Convair and Convair 580, and DC-9 and 727.