The American National Aviation Hall of Fame is located at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, east Dayton, Ohio. It is open to the public. The group holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code. He National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) is a non-profit, membership-based organization which honors America’s air and space pioneers. Its signature event is the black-tie NAHF enshrinement banquet held in the Dayton Convention Center in July.
The Hall of Fame Learning Center, located inside the National Museum of the United States Air Force, honors the legacies of America’s air and space pioneers—the individuals whose ambition, innovation and inspiration gave wings to mankind’s pursuit of flight. At the Hall of Fame, you’ll come to appreciate the achievements of the nearly two hundred enshrines, including Wilbur and Orville Wright, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Doolittle, Benjamin O. Davis, Chuck Yeager, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong and others. And the list of honorees continues to grow, as each year a handful of individuals are honored with their formal induction into the Hall of Fame.
The National Aviation Hall of Fame is a celebration of America’s spirit of innovation…and your opportunity to meet the fascinating, exciting and sometimes surprising individuals who wrote the history of aviation and space exploration.
The members of National Aviation Hall of Fame are as follows:
- Adrian Buzz
- Alison, John R
- William McPherson Allen
- Frank M. Andrews
- William Anders
- Bud Anderson
- Harry George Armstrong
- Neil Alden Armstrong
- Henry Harley Arnold
- J. Leland Atwood
- Bernt Balchen
- Thomas Scott Baldwin
- Lincoln Beachey
- Olive Ann Beech
- Walter Herschel Beech
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Lawrence Dale Bell
- Giuseppe Mario Bellanca
- Vincent Hugo Bendix
- William Edward Boeing
- Richard Bong
- Frank Borman
- Albert Boyd
- Walter J. Boyne
- Mark E. Bradley
- George Scratchley Brown
- Clayton J. Brukner
- Richard Evelyn Byrd
- Marion E. Carl
- Eugene Cernan
- Clyde Vernon Cessna
- Clarence Duncan Chamberlin
- Octave Chanute
- Claire Lee Chennault
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Eileen Collins
- Michael Collins
- Bessie Coleman
- Harry B. Combs
- Charles Conrad
- Laurence Craigie
- Frederick C. Crawford
- Scott Crossfield
- Alfred Austell Cunningham
- Glenn Hammond Curtiss
- Herbert A. Dargue
- Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
- Alexander P. de Seversky
- James Harold Doolittle
- Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.
- Charles Stark Draper
- Ira Clarence Eaker
- Amelia Earhart
- Carl Benjamin Eielson
- Theodore Gordon Ellyson
- Eugene Burton Ely
- Joe H. Engle
- Frank K. Everest
- Sherman Mills Fairchild
- Reuben Hollis Fleet
These people are included and are most important people of the National Aviation Hall of Fame.
NAHF’s Learning and Research Center adjoins the National Museum of the United States Air Force and is accessible through the museum. It features exhibits and activities grouped into five eras of flight: Early Years, World War I, Golden Age, World War II, Jet Age and Space Age.