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Octave Chanute
33 75 01? Paris(FR101), IDF, FR
1832(02/18) - 1910(11/23) 		Samuel Pierpont Langley
1 02119? 617427,42,5,522,4,41,971,83,9
Roxbury(RXBR), Boston, Suffolk County, MA
1834(08/22) - 1906(02/27) 		Thomas Scott Baldwin
1 ? ? ?, Marion County, MO
1854(06/30) - 1923(05/17)
John Joseph Montgomery
1 95991? 530 Yuba City(YBCY), Sutter County, CA
1858(02/15) - 1911(10/31) 		Elmer Ambrose Sperry
1 13040 607? Cincinnatus, Cortland County, NY
1860(10/12) - 1930(06/16) 		Wilbur Wright
1 47362 765? Millville, Henry County, IN
1867(04/16) - 1912(05/30) 		Orville Wright
1 45401? 937? Dayton(DYTN), Montgomery County, OH
1871(08/19) - 1948(01/30)
Ferdinand Marie Lιon Delagrange
33 45234? ? Orlιans, Loiret(FRB06), CVL, FR
1872(03/13) – 1910(01/04) 		Augustus Roy Knabenshue
1 43130 740277,536,652,3,4,81,7,9,746,56
Lancaster(LNCS), Fairfield County, OH
1876(07/15) – 1960(03/06) 		Charles Franklin Kettering
1 44842 419? Loudonville, Ashland County, OH
1876(08/29) - 1958(11/25) 		Frank Purdy Lahm
1 44901? 419? Mansfield(MNFD), Richland County, OH
1877(11/17) – 1963(07/07)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
1 14840 607? Hammondsport, Steuben County, NY
1878(05/21) – 1930(07/23) 		Holden Chester Richardson
1 17872 570221,76,339,73,644,8,72,875
Shamokin(SHMK), Northumberland County, PA
1878(12/07) – 1960(09/02) 		Calbraith Perry Rodgers
1 15233? 412? Pittsburgh(PITB), Allegheny County, PA
1879(01/12) – 1912(04/03) 		William Penn Adair Rogers
1 74053 918 Oologah, Rogers County, OK
1879(11/04) - 1935(08/15) 		Clyde Vernon Cessna
1 51566 712? Hawthorne, Red Oak, Montgomery County, IA
1879(12/05) - 1954(11/20)
Benjamin Delahauf Foulois
1 06777? 860? Washington, Litchfield County, CT
1879(12/09) - 1967(04/25) 		William Lendrum Mitchell
33 06 ? Nice,
Alpes-Maritimes(FRL03), PAC, FR
1879(12/29) - 1936(02/19) 		William Thomas Piper
1 14760 716? Knapp Creek, Olean, Cattaraugus County, NY
1881(01/08) - 1970(01/15) 		Theodore von Karman
36 1011 1 Budapest, BU, HU
1881(05/11) - 1963(05/06) 		William Edward Boeing
1 48231? 313? Detroit(DTRT), Wayne County, MI
1881(10/01) - 1956(09/28)
Thomas Etholen Selfridge
1 94142? 415? San Francisco(SNRF), CA
1882(02/08) - 1908(09/17) 		Alfred Austell Cunningham
1 30301? 404? Atlanta(ATLN), DeKalb County, Fulton County, GA
1882(03/08) - 1939(05/27) 		Robert Hutchings Goddard
1 01613? 508? Worcester(WRCS), MA
1882(10/05) - 1945(08/10) 		Frank Maxwell Andrews
1 37202? 615? Nashville(NSVL), Davidson County, TN
1884(02/03) - 1943(05/03) 		John Henry Towers
1 30161? 706232,3,4,5,6,8,90,1,2,5,368,78,802 Rome(ROME), Floyd County, GA
1885(01/30) – 1955(04/30)
Theodore Gordon Ellyson
1 23232? 804? Richmond(RCMD), VA
1885(02/27) – 1928(02/27) 		Glenn Luther Martin
1 50155 641? Macksburg, Madison County, IA
1886(01/17) - 1955(12/04) 		Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
39 92019 925 Sciacca, AG, IT
1886(03/19) - 1960(12/26) 		Henry Harley Arnold
1 19035 610? Gladwyne, Montgomery County, PA
1886(06/25) - 1950(01/15) 		Eugene Burton Ely
1 52361 319628,44,5,62,8 Williamsburg(WLBG), Iowa County, IA
1886(10/21) – 1911(10/19)
Marc Andrew Mitscher
1 54634 608489 Hillsboro(HLBO), Vernon County, WI
1887(01/26) - 1947(02/03) 		Lincoln Beachey
1 94142? 415? San Francisco(SNRF), CA
1887(03/03) – 1915(03/14) 		Reuben Hollis Fleet
1 98563 360? Montesano, Grays Harbor County, WA
1887(03/06) – 1975(10/29) 		Albert Cushing Read
1 03768 603 Lyme, Grafton County, NH
1887(03/29) – 1967(10/10) 		John Arthur Macready
1 92138? 619? San Diego(SNDG), CA
1887(10/14) – 1979(09/15)
Frederick Brant Rentschler
1 45011? 513 Hamilton(HMTN), Butler County, OH
1887(11/08) - 1956(04/25) 		Grover Cleveland Loening
49 28001? 0421 Bremen, HB, DE
1888(09/12) - 1976(02/29) 		Richard Evelyn Byrd
1 22601? 540? Winchester(WNCH), VA
1888(10/25) - 1957(03/11) 		Allan Haines Loughead
1 94537? 510? Niles, Fremont(FRMT), Alameda County, CA
1889(01/20) – 1969(05/26) 		Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky
380 01000 44 Kyiv, UA
1889(05/25) - 1972(10/26)
George William Goddard
44 ? 20 London, England, GB
1889(06/15) - 1987(09/20) 		George Churchill Kenney
1C B5A 902245,7,
467,524,32,4,8,82,4,
618,9,37,8,43,5,8,9,56,63,5,
723,42,5,6,9,61,2,5,8,9,70,
819,25,34,7,9,40,7,8,75,9
Yarmouth(YRMO), NS, CA
1889(08/06) - 1977(08/09) 		Collett Everman Woolman
1 47401? 812323,30,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,49,53,5,84,
597,828,9,34,55,6,7 Bloomington(BLTN), Monroe, IN
1889(10/08) - 1966(09/11)
Chauncey Milton Vought
1 ? ? ?, Long Island, NY
1890(02/26) - 1930(07/25) 		Silas G. Christofferson
1 50318? 515? Des Moines(DESM), Polk County, IA
1890(03/15) - 1916(10/31) 		Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker
62 66100 342 Blitar, JI, ID
1890(04/06) - 1939(12/23)
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
1 43216? 614? Columbus(CLMB), Fairfield County, OH
1890(10/08) - 1973(07/23) 		Walter Herschel Beech
1 38478 931363,424,68
Pulaski(PLSK), Giles County, TN
1891(01/30) - 1950(11/29) 		Frederick Coolidge Crawford
1 02471? 617? Watertown(WTTW), Middlesex County, MA
1891(03/19) – 1994(12/09) 		Oswald Boelcke
49 06108? 49345 Giebichenstein, Halle, ST, DE
1891(05/19) - 1916(10/28) 		Carl Andrew Spatz
1 19512 610? Boyertown, Berks County, PA
1891(06/28) - 1974(07/14)
Donald Wills Douglas
1 11201? 718? Brooklyn(NYCK), NY
1892(04/06) - 1981(02/01) 		Lowell Jackson Thomas
1 45331 614? Woodington, Darke County, OH
1892(04/06) - 1981(08/29) 		Lawrence Burst Sperry
1 60607? 312?,773? Chicago(CHCG), Cook County, IL
1892(12/21) – 1923(12/13) 		Claire Lee Chennault
1 75428? 903358,468,554,886 Commerce, Hunt County, TX
1893(09/06) – 1958(07/27) 		Clarence Duncan Chamberlin
1 51442 712263,5,674,8 Denison(DESN), Crawford, IA
1893(11/11) – 1976(10/31)
Arthur Roy Brown
1C K7C 613? Carleton Place, ON
1893(12/23) - 1944(03/09) 		Lawrence Dale Bell
1 46539 574353
Mentone(MNTN), Kosciusko County, IN
1894(04/05) - 1956(10/20) 		Alexander Nikolaievich Prokofiev de Seversky
995 162 32 Tbilisi, GE
1894(06/07) – 1974(08/24) 		James Howard Kindelberger
1 26003 304? Wheeling(WLNG), Ohio, Marshall County, WV
1895(05/08) – 1962(07/27) 		Roscoe Turner
1 38834? 662? Corinth(CRNT), Alcorn County, MS
1895(09/29) – 1970(06/23)
Albert Francis Hegenberger
1 02205? 617? Boston(BSTN), Suffolk County, MA
1895(09/30) - 1983(08/31) 		Leroy Randle Grumman
1 11746 516367,422,692,
631271,351,367,385,
421,423,424,425,427,
547,549,673,692,935
Huntington(HNST), Suffolk County, NY
1895(10/04) - 1982(10/04) 		Clyde Edward Pangborn
1 98813 509683,6 Bridgeport(BRPT), Douglas County, WA
1895(10/28) – 1958(03/29) 		John Knudsen Northrop
1 07102? 973? Newark(NWRK), Essex County, NJ
1895(11/10) 1895 – 1981(02/18) 		Ira Clarence Eaker
1 76869 325? Pontotoc, Mason County, TX
1896(04/13) – 1987(08/06)
James Harold Doolittle
1 94501? 510? Alameda(ALMD), CA
1896(12/14) - 1993(09/27) 		Robert Ellsworth Gross
1 02458? 339814,617215,9,43,4,
332,473,527,46,52,8,9,
609,30,641,4,55,6,
796,881,2,5,928,964,5,9
Newton(NWTN), Middlesex County, MA
1897(05/11) – 1961(09/03) 		Frank Luke
1 85034? 602? Phoenix(PHNX), Maricopa County, AZ
1897(05/19) – 1918(09/29) 		Harold Frederick Pitcairn
1 19009 215? Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, PA
1897(06/20) – 1960(04/23) 		Carl Benjamin Eielson
1 58240 701 Hatton, Traill County, ND
1897(07/20) – 1929(11/09)
Nathan Farragut Twining
1 53566 608324,5,8,9,336,
439,65,523,862,934,8,66 Monroe(MONR), Green County, WI
1897(10/11) - 1982(03/29) 		Tubal Claude Ryan
1 67357 620236,44,
421,3,49,73,625,820,912,918233
Parsons(PRSS), Labette County, KS
1898(01/03) - 1982(09/11) 		Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg
1 53201? 414? Milwaukee(MILW), WI
1899(01/24) - 1954(04/02) 		David Sinton Ingalls
1 44101? 216? Cleveland(CLEV), Cuyahoga County, OH
1899(01/28) – 1985(04/26) 		James Smith McDonnell
1 80202? 303? Denver(DNVR), CO
1899(04/09) – 1980(08/22)
Juan Terry Trippe
1 07760 732? Sea Bright, Monmouth County, NJ
1899(06/27) - 1981(04/03) 		Cyrus Rowlett Smith
1 76520 512? Minerva, Milam County, TX
1899(09/09) - 1990(04/04) 		Bernt Balchen
47 4658 ? Tveit, NO
1899(10/23) – 1973(10/17) 		Wiley Hardeman Post
1 75140 903913,62 Corinth, Grand Saline(GRSL), Van Zandt County, TX
1899(11/22) - 1935(08/15) 		Charles Stark Draper
1 65360 660?
Windsor, Henry County, MO
1901(10/02) – 1987(07/25)
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
1 48231? 313? Detroit(DTRT), Wayne County, MI
1902(02/04) - 1974(08/26) 		Robert Campbell Reeve
1 53597 608? Waunakee, Dane County, WI
1902(03/27) - 1980(08/25) 		William Powell Lear
1 63401 573221,31,42,8,67,324,406,629,754,84,847,98
Hannibal(HNBL), Marion County, MO
1902(06/26) - 1978(05/14) 		William John Frye
1 73666 580? Sweetwater, Beckham County, OK
1904(03/18) - 1959(02/03) 		Edwin Albert Link
1 46750 260355,6,8,9,782,6,824,7 Huntington(HNTN), IN
1904(07/26) - 1981(09/07)
John Leland Atwood
1 41094 859485,93 Walton(WLTN), Boone County, KY
1904(10/26) - 1999(03/05) 		James Allan Mollison
44S G 141 Glasgow, Scotland, GB
1905(04/19) - 1959(10/30) 		Howard Robard Hughes
1 77052? 713? Houston(HSTN), Harris County, TX
1905(12/24) - 1976(04/05) 		Curtis Emerson LeMay
1 43216? 614? Columbus(CLMB), Fairfield County, OH
1906(11/15) - 1990(10/01) 		Albert G Boyd
1 37821 423? Rankin, Cooke County, TN
1906(11/22) - 1976(09/18)
Elrey Borge Jeppesen
1 70601? 337? Lake Charles(LKCH), Calcasieu Parish, LA
1907(01/28) - 1996(11/26) 		Frank Whittle
44 CV 23 Coventry, England, GB
1907(06/01) - 1996(08/08) 		Robert Forman Six
1 95208? 209? Stockton(SKTN), San Joaquin County, CA
1907(06/25) - 1986(10/06) 		Mark Edward Bradley
1 29631? 864403,508,624,39,46,53,4,6,8
Clemson(CLSN), Pickens County, SC
1907(12/10) - 1999(05/22) 		Edward Henry Heinemann
1 48605? 989?
Saginaw(SGNW), MI
1908(03/14) - 1991(11/26)
Clarence Leonard Johnson
1 49849 906? Ishpeming, Marquette County, MI
1910(02/27) - 1990(12/21) 		John Paul Stapp
55 40000001 71 ?, BA, BR
1910(07/11) - 1999(11/13) 		Bernard Adolph Schriever
49 28001? 0421 Bremen, HB, DE
1910(09/14) - 2005(06/20) 		Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain
49 06811? 0340 Dessau, ST, DE
1911(12/14) - 1998(03/13) 		Thomas Hinman Moorer
1 36032 334 Mount Willing, Lowndes County, AL
1912(02/09) – 2004(02/05)
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
48 89300 67 Wyrzysk, PL
1912(03/23) - 1977(06/16) 		Robert Morris Stanley
1 73036 405? El Reno, Canadian County, OK
1912(08/19) – 1977(07/16) 		Benjamin Oliver Davis
1 20090? 202? Washington(WASH), DC
1912(12/18) - 2002(07/04) 		Anthony Puck
1 55806? 218? Duluth(DLTH), Saint Louis County, MN
1913(02/14) – 1998(02/06) 		Robert Rowe Gilruth
1 55769 218? Nashwauk, Itasca County, MN
1913(10/08) – 2000(08/17)
Alvin Melvin Johnston
1 66830 620? Admire, Lyon County, KS
1914(08/18) - 1998(10/29) 		Joseph Jacob Foss
1 57101? 605? Sioux Falls(SXFL), Lincoln County, SD
1915(04/17) - 2003(01/01) 		Edward Preston Wells
64 3432 ? Cambridge, WKO, NZ
1916(07/26) - 2005(11/04)
Donald Wills Douglas
1 ? ? ?, US
1917(07/03) - 2004(10/03) 		Franciszek Stanisław Gabryszewski
1 16301 814676,7,8 Oil City(OLCY), Venago County, PA
1919(01/28) - 2002(01/31) 		John Charles Meyer
1 11201? 718? Brooklyn(NYCK), NY
1919(04/03) - 1975(12/02)
Richard L. Cevoli
1 02818 401541,884,5,6 East Greenwich(EGRN), Kent County, RI
1919(10/24) - 1955(01/18) 		Daniel James
1 32501? 850? Pensacola(PNSC), Escambia County, FL
1920(02/11) - 1978(02/25) 		Frank Kendall Everest
1 26554? 304? Fairmont(FAMT), Marion County, WV
1920(08/09) - 2004(10/01) 		Richard Ira Bong
1 54880 715392,4,5,8,9 Superior(SPRR), Douglas County, WI
1920(09/24) – 1945(08/06) 		Dominic Salvatore Gentile
1 45356 937368,615,773,8 Piqua(MMBG), Miami County, OH
1920(12/06) - 1951(01/28)
<1st to mach 2>
Albert Scott Crossfield
1 94704? 510? Berkeley(BKLY), Alameda County, CA
1921(10/02) - 2006(04/19) 		Robert Anderson Hoover
1 37202? 615? Nashville(NSVL), Davidson County, TN
1922(01/24) – 2016(10/25) 		Charles Elwood Yeager
1 25544 304? Myra, Lincoln County, WV
1923(02/13) - 2020(12/07) 		Thomas Jerome Hudner
1 02722? 508? Fall River(FLRV), Bristol County, MA
1924(08/31) - 2017(11/13) 		Robert Aitken Rushworth
1 04950 207? Madison, Somerset County, ME
1924(10/09) - 1993(03/18)
Paul Beattie MacCready
1 06511? 203? New Haven(NWHN), CT
1925(09/25) - 2007(08/28) 		Jesse LeRoy Brown
1 39401? 601? Hattiesburg(HTBG), Forrest County, MS
1926(10/13) - 1950(12/04) 		Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg
1 92502? 951? Riverside(RVSD), CA
1928(08/12) 		William John Knight
1 46060? 317? Noblesville(NBVL), Hamilton County, IN
1929(11/18) - 2004(05/07) 		Elbert Leander Rutan
1 97023 503? Estacada, Clackamas County, OR
1943(06/17)
np

Women in aviation

Thιrθse Juliette Cochet
33 45234? ? Orlιans, Loiret(FRB06), CVL, FR
1873 – 1926 		Bessica Faith Medlar Raiche
1 53511? 608361,2,3,4,5
Beloit(BELT), Rock County, WI
1875(04) - 1932(04/11) 		Harriet Quimby
1 49036 517238,78,9,369,639,741,65,7 Coldwater(CDWR), Branch County, MI
1875(05/11) - 1912(07/01)
Hιlθne Marguerite Dutrieu
32 7500 57081 Tournai, WHT, BE
1877(07/10) - 1961(06/26) 		Matilde Josephine Moisant
1 47942 219? Earl Park, Benton County, IN
1878(09/13) - 1964(02/05) 		Elise Raymonde Deroche
33 75 01? Paris(FR101), IDF, FR
1882(08/22) - 1919(07/18)
Aida de Acosta Root Breckinridge
1 07740 732222,9,63,483,571,728,870,923 Elberon,
Long Branch(LGBR), Monmouth County, NJ
1884(07/28) - 1962(05/26) 		Edna Emma Bissner
1 ? ? ?, Pipestone County, MN
1886(09/04) - 1945(03/08) 		Amelie Hedwig Beese
49 0? ? Dresden, SN, DE
1886(09/13) - 1925(12/22) 		Dorothy Rice Peirce Sims
1 07712? 732502,774,5,6,869,97,988 Asbury Park(ASPK), Monmouth County, NJ
1889(06/24) - 1960(03/24) 		Katherine Stinson
1 35967? 256? Fort Payne(FTPY), DeKalb County, AL
1891(02/14) - 1977(07/08)
Elizabeth Coleman
1 75551 903665,6,796,9 Atlanta(ATLN), Cass County, TX
1892(01/26) - 1926(04/30) 		Georgia Ann Thompson Broadwick Olsen Brown
1 27565 919603,90,2,3 Oxford(OXFR), Granville County, NC
1892(04/08) - 1978(08/25) 		Amelia Mary Earhart
1 66002 913? Atchison, KS
1897(07/24) - 1937(07/02) 		Ruth Rowland Nichols
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1901(02/23) – 1960(09/25) 		Florence Leontine Lowe
1 91109? 626? Pasadena(PSDN), Los Angeles County, CA
1901(07/22) - 1975(03/30)
Kus-de-cha
1 98563 360? Bruceport, Montesano, Grays Harbor County, WA
1902(04/22) - 1981(10/25) 		Amy Johnson
44 HU 1482 Kingston upon Hull, England, GB
1903(07/01) - 1941(01/05) 		Olive Ann Mellor Beech
1 66871 785? Waverly, Coffey County, KS
1903(09/25) - 1993(07/06) 		Willa Beatrice Brown
1 42141? 270? Glasgow(GLSG), Barren County, KY
1906(01/22) - 1992(07/18) 		Jacqueline Cochran
1 32501? 850? Pensacola(PNSC), Escambia County, FL
1906(05/11) - 1980(08/09)
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
1 07631 201227,503,541,567,568,569,
816,817,833,837,862,871,894
Englewood(ENWD), Bergen County, NJ
1906(06/22) – 2001(02/07) 		Jane Gardner Batten
64 3010 7 Rotorua, BOP, NZ
1909(09/15) - 1982(11/22) 		Helen Richey
1 15134? 412 McKeesport(MCRK), Allegheny County, PA
1909(11/21) - 1947(01/07) 		Elinor Regina Patricia Ward Smith
1 10001? 212?,718? New York, NY
1911(08/17) - 2010(03/19) 		Dorothy Eleanor Kocher Olsen
1 97071 503980,1,2 Woodburn(WDBN), Marion County, OR
1916(07/10) - 2019(07/23)
Sheila Christine Hopkins Scott
44 WR 1905 Worcester, England, GB
1922(04/27) - 1988(10/20) 		Betty Skelton Frankman Erde
1 32501? 850? Pensacola(PNSC), Escambia County, FL
1926(06/28) - 2011(08/31) 		Emily Joyce Hanrahan Howell Warner
1 80202? 303? Denver(DNVR), CO
1939(10/30) - 2020(07/03) 		Beverly Lynn Burns
1 21203? 410? Baltimore(BLTM), MD
1949(08/15) 		Jammie Jamieson
1 98402? 253? Tacoma(TACM), Pierce County, WA
1982
Millicent Maude Harvey Bryant61 2280 ? Wellington, NSW, AU1878(01/08) - 1927(11/03)
Ann G. Baumgartner Carl1 30903? 706? Augusta(AGST), Richmond County, GA1918(08/27) - 2008(03/20)
Lois Ann Russell1 50026 641? Bagley, Guthrie County, IA1920(03/13) - 2007(12/02)

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