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
Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey is located in New Jersey
Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey
Location within New Jersey
Established1972
LocationTeterboro, New Jersey
Coordinates40°51′09″N 74°03′19″W / 40.8524°N 74.0554°W / 40.8524; -74.0554
TypeAviation museum
FounderPat Reilly & Donald G. Borg
Executive directorRalph Villecca Sr.
Websitewww.njahof.org

History

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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

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Honorees

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GlideMobile inside the museum
 
Wright R-2160 Tornado inside the museum
 
Bell AH-1 Cobra on display
Name Year of induction
Bert Acosta 1976
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. 1980
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Sr. 1990
Solomon Andrews 1980
Michael Bachik Jr. 2004
Bernt Balchen 1975
Ralph S. Barnaby 1981
Samuel C. Barnitt 1977
Floyd Bennett 1973
Jean Pierre Blanchard 1993
Frederick W. Bohlander 1974
Boland brothers 1980
Donald G. Borg 1974
Kay A. Brick 1978
Arthur Raymond Brooks 1980
Robert Nietzel Buck 1981
Vincent Justus Burnelli 1996
Richard Evelyn Byrd 1998
Benjamin R. Cascio 2000
Frederick Walker Castle 1988
Silvio Cavalier 1987
Clarence Duncan Chamberlin 1973
Timothy A. Chopp 2013
Robert Joseph Collier 1984
William J. Conrad 1990
Robert L. Copsey 1981
Richard C. Cosgrave 2005
Selma Cronan 1994[4]
Harold Curtis 1984
Charles Healy Day 1981
Chester J. Decker 1985
Jules Decrescendo 1983
George DeGarmo 1976
Richard C. Dehmel 1991
William Diehl 1973
Anthony Distefano 2005
Charles F. Durant 1981
Amelia Earhart 1973
Jack Elliott 1986
Henyy J. Esposito 1986
Earl W. Estelle 2005
Arlene B. Feldman 2002
Fred Feldman 2002
Herbert O. Fisher 1983
Charles Joseph Fletcher 1989
Anthony Fokker 1974
Malcolm S. Forbes 1985
Albert E. Forsythe 1985
Paul E. Garber 1987
Ivan Gates 1976
Henry Geleski 1978
Francis R. Gerard 1983
Richard F. Gills 2005
Arthur Godfrey 1976
Robert R. Golem 1993
Edward Gorski 1973
Julia Gorski 1978
John M. Habermann 1991
William Halsey, Jr. 1988
Harry Hamlen 2002
Terry Jonathan Hart 1999
William A. Hartig 1974
Walter M. Hartung 1990
Bernice Falk Haydu 2000
O. R. Herbert 1975
George Hicha 1979
Aline Rhonie Hofheimer 2010
James Holahan 1994
William A. Hughes 1983
Michael J. Jackson 1994
Robert E. Johnson 1991
Charles S. Jones 1984
Herbert D. Kelleher 2000
Jo Kotula 1999
Cornelius J. Kraissl 1989
Aaron Krantz 1973
Frederick Kuhnert 1990
Roy LaGrone 2001
Phillip J. Landi 1986
Sander Lawrance 1994
Oliver Colin LeBoutillier 2002
Anne Morrow Lindbergh 1997
Charles A. Lindbergh 1973
Leo Loudenslager 1982
Donald Arthur Luscombe 2006
Thomas Buchanan McGuire, Jr. 1982
Edward P. McNeff 2009
George Meade 2001
Thomas A. Murchio 1983
Ruth Rowland Nichols 1988
R.B.C. Noorduyn 1978
Harry A. Nordheim 1988
John W. Olcott 1998
Thomas J. O'Malley 1996
Clyde Pangborn 1973
John S. Penn, Sr. 1998
William J. Picune 1979
James O. Plinton, Jr. 2006
Louis G. Ranley 1977
Louis T. Reichers 1989
H. V. Pat Reilly 1993
William E. Rhode 1984
Thomas W. Robertson 1983
Ben B. Rock 1977
Charles Emery Rosendahl 1980
Royal French Ryder 1979
Barry Schiff 2002
Walter M. Schirra 1982
Issac Schlossbach 2001
Oliver George Simmons 1987
Dean C. Smith 1986
Thor Solberg 1985
Calvin J. Spann 2006
Donald J. Strait 1989
Paul G. Styger 1995
Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan 1987
Richard Switlik, Sr. 1996
Stanley Switlik 1989
John E. Thomson 1979
Juan Terry Trippe 1975
Kenneth R. Unger 1981
David A. Van Dyke 1995
George Augustus Vaughn, Jr. 2006
George Walker 1991
Kenneth A. Walsh 1997
Neville E. Watson 1993
Jack O. Webster 1974
Fred L. Wehran 1973
Charles West 1977
Lowell E. White 2006
Russell R. White 1998
Roger O. Williams 1975
Gill Robb Wilson 1980
Hugh Dennis Wisely 1995
Wittemann brothers 1973
James Hart Wyld 1997

Aviation timeline for New Jersey

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b 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. ^ a b c d e f g 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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