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National Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinees

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. The Hall has inducted the following people, arranged in alphabetical order, with their year of induction in parentheses.

Buzz Aldrin (2000) John R. Alison (2005) William McPherson Allen (1971) Frank M. Andrews (1986) William Anders (2004) Bud Anderson (2008) Harry George Armstrong (1998) Neil Alden Armstrong (1979) Henry Harley Arnold (1967) J. Leland Atwood (1984) Bernt Balchen (1973) Thomas Scott Baldwin (1964) Lincoln Beachey (1966) Olive Ann Beech (1981) Walter Herschel Beech (1977) Alexander Graham Bell (1965) Lawrence Dale Bell (1977) Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1993) Vincent Hugo Bendix (1991) William Edward Boeing (1966) Richard Bong (1986) Frank Borman (1982) Albert Boyd (1984) Mark E. Bradley (1992) George Scratchley Brown (1985) Clayton J. Brukner (1997) Richard Evelyn Byrd (1968) Marion E. Carl (2001) Eugene Cernan (2000) Clyde Vernon Cessna (1978) Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1976) Octave Chanute (1963) Claire Lee Chennault (1972) Jacqueline Cochran (1972) Michael Collins (1985) Bessie Coleman (2006) Harry B. Combs (1996) Charles Conrad (1980) Laurence Craigie (2000) Frederick C. Crawford (1993) Scott Crossfield (1983) Alfred Austell Cunningham (1965) Glenn Hammond Curtiss (1964) Herbert A. Dargue (1997) Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (1994) Alexander P. de Seversky (1970) James Harold Doolittle (1967) Donald Wills Douglas, Sr. (1969) Charles Stark Draper (1981) Ira Clarence Eaker (1970) Amelia Earhart (1968) Carl Benjamin Eielson (1985) Theodore Gordon Ellyson (1964) Eugene Burton Ely (1965) Joe H. Engle (2001) Frank K. Everest (1989) Sherman Mills Fairchild (1979) Rueben Hollis Fleet (1975) Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker (1980) Henry Ford (1984) Joseph Jacob Foss (1984) Steve Fossett (2007) Benjamin Foulois (1963) Betty Skelton Frankman (2005) William John Frye (1992) Fitzhugh Fulton (1999) Francis Stanley Gabreski (1978) Dominic S. Gentile (1995) Robert R. Gilruth (1994) John Herschel Glenn (1976) George William Goddard (1976) Robert Hutchings Goddard (1966) Arthur Godfrey (1987) Barry Morris Goldwater (1982) Virgil I. Grissom (1987) Robert Ellsworth Gross (1970) Leroy Randle Grumman (1972) Harry Frank Guggenheim (1971) Daniel J. Haughton (1987) Albert Francis Hegenberger (1976) Edward Henry Heinemann (1981) David Lee Hill (2006) Robert A. Hoover (1988) Howard Hughes (1973) David Sinton Ingalls (1983) Daniel James (1993) Elrey Borge Jeppesen (1990) Clarence Leonard Johnson (1974) Alvin M. Johnston (1993) Thomas V. Jones (1992) Herbert D. Kelleher (2008) George Churchill Kenney (1971) Charles Franklin Kettering (1979) James Howard Kindelberger (1972) Joe W. Kittinger (1997) A. Roy Knabenshue (1965) William J. "Pete" Knight (1988) Frank Purdy Lahm (1963)

Samuel Pierpont Langley (1963) William Power Lear (1978) Curtis Emerson Lemay (1972) Anthony William Levier (1978) Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1979) Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1967) Edwin Albert Link (1976) Allan H. Lockheed (1986) Grover Loening (1969) Nancy Harkness Love (2005) James Arthur Lovell (1998) Raoul Gervais Lufbery (1998) Frank Luke (1975) Paul B. MacCready (1991) John Arthur Macready (1968) Glenn Luther Martin (1966) David McCampbell (1996) James Smith McDonnell (1977) Thomas McGuire (2000) John C. Meyer (1988) William Mitchell (1966) Marc A. Mitscher (1988) William A. Moffett (2008) John J. Montgomery (1964) Thomas H. Moorer (1987) Sanford Alexander Moss (1976) Gerhard Neumann (1986) Ruth Rowland Nichols (1992) Carl L. Norden (1994) John Knudsen Northrop (1974) Robin Olds (2001) Clyde Edward Pangborn (1995) William Allan Patterson (1976) Frank Piasecki (2002) William Thomas Piper (1980) Harold Frederick Pitcairn (1995) Paul Poberezny (1999) Wiley Hardeman Post (1969) Harriet Quimby (2004) Albert Cushing Read (1965) Robert Campbell Reeve (1965) Frederick Brant Rentschler (1982) Ben Rich (2005) Holden Chester Richardson (1978) Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1965) Sally Ride (2007) Jack Ridley (2004) Cliff Robertson (2006) Calbraith Perry Rodgers (1964) Will Rogers (1977) Robert A. Rushworth (1990) Burt Rutan (1995) Dick Rutan (2002) T. Claude Ryan (1974) Walter M. Schirra (1986) Bernard Adolf Schriever (1980) Thomas Etholen Selfridge (1965) Alan Shepard (1977) Igor Ivan Sikorsky (1968) Robert Forman Six (1980) Donald K. Slayton (1996) C.R. Smith (1974) Carl Andrew Spaatz (1967) Elmer Ambrose Sperry (1973) Lawrence Burst Sperry (1981) Thomas P. Stafford (1997) Robert M. Stanley (1990) John Paul Stapp (1985) Lloyd C. Stearman (1989) James Stockdale (2002) Charles Edward Taylor (1965) Louise Thaden (1999) Lowell Thomas (1992) Paul W. Tibbets (1996) John Henry Towers (1966) Juan Terry Trippe (1970) Sean D. Tucker (2008) Roscoe Turner (1975) Nathan Farragut Twining (1976) Albert Lee Ueltschi (2001) Hoyt S. Vandenberg (1991) Wernher Von Braun (1982) Theodore Von Karman (1983) Hans P. Von Ohain (1990) Chance M. Vought (1989) Leigh Wade (1974) Patty Wagstaff (2004) Henry W. Walden (1964) Edward Curtis Wells (1991) Robert M. White (2006) Sam Barlow Williams (1998) Thornton Arnold Wilson (1983) Collett Everman Woolman (1994) Orville Wright (1962) Wilbur Wright (1962) Charles Elwood Yeager (1973) John W. Young (1988) Hubert Zemke (2002)

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