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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:
Mr. David Alan Limmer

Theodore Henry Limmer, Jr. (Ted) was born in Wentworth, South Dakota on May 24, 1924. After graduating from high school he enlisted in the U.S. Navy with training in Pensacola, Florida. Now wearing his proud "Gold Wings" he was assigned in 1944 to the carrier U.S.S. Princeton flying dive bombers in the Pacific and patrol along the China coast making the 10,000th landing on the Princeton. After WW II, he joined the South Dakota Air National Guard flying P-51 Mustangs with Medal of Honor winner and later Governor of South Dakota Joe Foss.
Ted joined Lockheed Aircraft Corp. in California in 1950 as a test pilot flying aircraft in the early jet fighter age such as the F-80 (Shooting Star), F-104 (Starfighter) and the U-2 (Dragon Lady). Ted went to Japan in 1955 to train the Japanese to fly their first jet aircraft, the T-33, which was also the first jet aircraft built in Japan.
In 1958 he was assigned to Lockheed Georgia for engineering testing of the C-140 (Jetstar), the C-l30 (Hercules), the C-141 (Starlifter) and the C-5 (Galaxy) In November 1963 the first (and last) landing of a C-130 transport was made upon the carrier U.S.S. Forrestal. Ted was chosen to train and accompany the Navy crew who received the Navy Cross.
In 1972 Ted was chosen to go to Lockheed California to be the Chief Instructor on the new L-1011 (TriStar) wide-body airliner, training TWA, Delta, British Airways and others. Ted died in 1979 and is buried in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ted served with the Civil Air Patrol in California and Georgia as a squadron commander, Georgia Wing Commander and Southeast Region Commander attaining the rank of Colonel. He was a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Quiet Birdmen.