NAHF reveals ‘Class of 2011′ inductees and Spirit of Flight Award recipient
Home - posted 12.17.10
Tonight the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) revealed the names of the four individuals elected for enshrinement this July, along with the recipient of its 2011 Milton Caniff “Spirit of Flight” Award. The NAHF announcement took place at the Engineers Club of Dayton during a dinner hosted by Dayton-based Aviation Trail, Inc. (ATI) in celebration of the 107th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers first powered flight... | Read more
Remembering Carl Day
Press/News - posted 11.18.10
Carl Day, a longtime Dayton broadcaster and “The Voice of the National Aviation Hall of Fame,” passed away Nov. 17, 2010 after a long battle with cancer. Day, 72, acted as master of ceremonies for many Hall of Fame events, and lent his distinctive voice to videos of enshrines shown during annual enshrinement ceremonies. “We [...] | Read more
Noted author wins Eighth Annual Combs Gates Award
Home - posted 11.01.10
The National Aviation Hall of Fame has announced that pilot and noted aviation author/photographer Philip Handleman of Birmingham, Mich. is the recipient of its Eighth Annual Combs Gates Award. He is being recognized for his work-in-progress, The Rise of American Airpower, an illustrated history of the first century of American airpower with select works from [...] | Read more
49th Annual Enshrinement
Events - posted 6.14.10
When it comes to appropriately and publicly saluting our nation’s aviation pioneers, there may be no other event as significant as the National Aviation Hall of Fame’s Enshrinement gala. Not surprisingly the spectacular formal dinner and ceremony has become known as America’s “Oscar Night of Aviation.” The 2010 edition of historic event will again see a freshman crop of air and space legends inducted before an anticipated audience of 1,000 or more peers and admirers. | Read more
