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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Friend
Honored by:
Ms. Nancy Holderman Durante
Career over 260,000 hours in the air, from the infancy of aviation to the corporate jet.
Stunt Pilot, early Air Mail Pilot, World War 1 and World War II flying instructor, flying school and airport manager in Leroy, NY, leader in corporate aviation - Chief Pilot for Gannett Co. for 26 years (pilot for Frank Gannett)
Member of Early Birds (pilots who soloed before Dec. 17, 1916), 1970 Aviation Hall of Fame, 1940 Curtiss Trophy, Legion of Merit OX5 Aviation Pioneers.
1974 Honorary Doctorate - Embry Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach, FL. 1913 youngest pilot in America
Friend of Eddie Rickenbacker, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Orville (who signed his license #227) & Wilbur Wright.
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