Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey

The Aviation Hall Of Fame & Museum of New Jersey was founded in 1972 and preserves New Jersey's aviation and space heritage. The museum displays historic aircraft, space equipment, artifacts, photographs, art and an aircraft model collection.[1] The library has more than 4,000 volumes and a collection of aviation video.[1] It is located at Teterboro Airport, the oldest operating airport in the Tri-State Region, at 400 Fred Wehran Drive, Teterboro, New Jersey.

Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
Lockheed L-402 Bushmaster on display in front of the museum
Location within New Jersey
Established1972
LocationTeterboro, New Jersey
Coordinates40.854748°N 74.053199°W / 40.854748; -74.053199
TypeAviation museum
FounderPat Reilly & Donald G. Borg
Websitewww.njahof.org

History

The museum was founded in 1972 by Pat Reilly and Donald G. Borg. Initially located in a radio tower at Teterboro Airport, it moved to a nearby building in 1985, and again in 1997 to a much larger facility.[2]

Aircraft on display

Honorees

GlideMobile inside the museum
Wright R-2160 Tornado inside the museum
Bell AH-1 Cobra on display
Name Year of induction
Arthur Raymond Brooks1980
Aaron Krantz1973
Albert E. Forsythe1985
Amelia Earhart1973
Aline Rhonie Hofheimer2010
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anthony Distefano2005
Anthony Fokker1974
Arlene B. Feldman
Arthur Godfrey1976
Barry Schiff
Ben B. Rock1977
Benjamin R. Cascio
Bernice Falk Haydu
Bernt Balchen1975
Bert Acosta1976
Boland brothers 1980
Calvin J. Spann2006
Charles A. Lindbergh1973
Charles F. Durant1981
Charles Emery Rosendahl1980
Charles Joseph Fletcher1989
Charles Healy Day1981
Charles S. Jones1984
Charles West1977
Chester J. Decker1985
Clarence Duncan Chamberlin1973
Clyde Pangborn1973
Cornelius J. Kraissl
David A. Van Dyke
Dean C. Smith
Donald Arthur Luscombe2006
Donald G. Borg1974
Donald J. Strait
Earl W. Estelle
Edward Gorski1973
Edward P. McNeff2009
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.1980
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr.
Floyd Bennett1973
Francis R. Gerard1983
Fred L. Wehran1973
Fred Feldman
Frederick Kuhnert
Frederick W. Bohlander1974
Frederick Walker Castle
George Augustus Vaughn, Jr.2006
George DeGarmo1976
George Hicha1979
George Meade
George Walker Wiliam
Gill Robb Wilson1980
H. V. Pat Reilly1993
Harold Curtis1984
Harry A. Nordheim
Harry Hamlen
Henry Geleski1978
Henyy J. Esposito1986
Herbert D. Kelleher
Herbert O. Fisher1983
Hugh Dennis Wisely
Issac Schlossbach
Ivan Gates1976
Jack Elliott1986
Jack O. Webster1974
James Hart Wyld
James Holahan
James O. Plinton, Jr.2006
Jean Pierre Blanchard
John W. Olcott1998
Juan Terry Trippe1975
Jo Kotula
John E. Thomson1979
John M. Habermann
John S. Penn, Sr.
Jules Decrescendo1983
Julia Gorski1978
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan1987
Kay A. Brick1978
Kenneth A. Walsh
Kenneth R. Unger1981
Leo Loudenslager1982
Louis G. Ranley1977
Louis T. Reichers
Lowell E. White2006
Malcolm S. Forbes1985
Michael Bachik Jr.2004
Michael J. Jackson
Neville E. Watson
Oliver Colin LeBoutillier
Oliver George Simmons1987
O. R. Herbert1975
Paul G. Styger
Paul Garber1987
Phillip J. Landi1986
R.B.C. Noorduyn1978
Ralph S. Barnaby1981
Richard C. Cosgrave2005
Richard C. Dehmel
Robert E. Johnson
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Richard F. Gillis
Richard Switlik, Sr.
Robert Joseph Collier1984
Robert L. Copsey1981
Robert Nietzel Buck1981
Robert R. Golem
Roger O. Williams1975
Roy LaGrone
Royal French Ryder1979
Russell R. White
Ruth Rowland Nichols
Samuel C. Barnitt1977
Sander Lawrance
Selma Cronan 1994[4]
Silvio Cavalier1987
Solomon Andrews1980
Stanley Switlik
Terry Jonathan Hart
Timothy A. Chopp
Thomas A. Murchio1983
Thomas Buchanan McGuire, Jr.1982
Thomas J. O'Malley
Thomas W. Robertson1983
Thor Solberg1985
Vincent Justus Burnelli
Walter M. Hartung
Walter M. Schirra1982
William A. Hartig1974
William A. Hughes1983
William Diehl1973
William Halsey, Jr.1988
William J. Conrad
William E. Rhode1984
William J. Picune1979
Wittemann brothers 1973

See also

References

  1. Robert Sullivan (2010-01-11). "Across the River - Flight Time". The New Yorker (LXXXVI ed.). p. 27. ISSN 0028-792X.
  2. Brewer, Caroline (25 July 1999). "A hard-working volunteer takes a museum under his wing". The Record. pp. L-1, L-3.
  3. Castiglione, Roger A.; Rethage, Fritz (October 2016). "Self Guided Tour of The Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey" (PDF). Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  4. "WWII Female Pilot Honored". The Palm Beach Post. 28 May 1994. Retrieved 2019-01-06 via Newspapers.com.

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