History
Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame
Georgia History
1907 Ben Epps first Georgian to build and fly an airplane
1912 Alfred Cunningham: First U.S. Marine Pilot
1917 – 1918 Eugene Bullard: first African American combat pilot, WWI Ace, awarded the Croix de Guerre
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honor
1923 Departing from Souther Field, Charles Lindbergh makes first solo flight
1926 Atlanta Hartsfield Airport opens as Chandler Field
1926 Naval ROTC founded at Georgia Tech
1928 Delta Air Service founded
1941 - 1942 RAF Pilots train in Albany and Americus Georgia
1941 Bell Aircraft selected to build B-29s
1941 – 1945 General Robert Scott: WWII Ace, flew the Hump, wrote God is My Co-Pilot
Given a P-40 by Chennault (AVG) to fly transport escort
1941 - 1945 Henry Tift Myers: 1st to fly around world at equator, flew Roosevelt & Churchill to Yalta
1941 Maule Air founded: oldest of the small aircraft manufacturers in Georgia
1941 – 1945 Hazel Raines: Georgia's First Lady in Flight, logged highest ATA flight hours
1942 Eighth Airforce assigned to Savannah
1942 – 1943 Bell Aircraft begins operations in Marietta
1945 Delta Air Lines founded
1948 - 1949 General Lucius Clay organized the Berlin Airlift
1951 Lockheed begins operations in Marietta
1954 C-130 Hercules begins, becomes world's longest continuously running production line
1967 Gulfstream begins operations in Savannah
1995 Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems Company (LMASC) begins operations
1998 Atlanta Hartsfield becomes world’s busiest airport
G-400 Gulfstream.com Photo
C-130 Hercules New Georgia Encyclopedia Photo
C-141 Starlifter New Georgia Encyclopedia Photo
Maule M-4-180V New Georgia Encyclopedia Photo
F-22 Raptor
C-5 Galaxy Infinite Flight Photo