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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Leader

Honored by:
Mrs. Nancy Cohen

Stanley Cohen's career and main lifelong interest in aviation spanned the years of some of the most important developments in manned flight. Beginning his career as a young man in the late 1930s, he worked for Sikorsky during the early years of helicopter development.
Then in the early 1940s studied engineering, a study interrupted by service in the U.S. Army during World War II, for which he received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star.
After working as a machinist in the post-war years of the 1940s and 1950s, he moved to Florida in the 1960s, where for more than 3 1/2 decades, he was the proprietor of "Airpro Corporation of Florida", a machine shop which manufactured precision aircraft parts for military, cargo and corporate jet manufacturers, such as Grumman Aerospace and Gulfstream Aerospace. In the late 1960s, Airpro Corporation of Florida manufactured parts for the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module.
He was nominated as Small Businessman of the Year, and had a chance to visit the Space Museum, where he enjoyed seeing the Lunar Excursion Module. We know he would enjoy having his name on display in this museum.
Stanley Cohen 1918-1996 (From his wife Nancy and his son Philip)