Curtis Pitts

Curtis Pitts

male, deceased (2005)
Curtis Pitts of Stillmore, Georgia, was a designer of a series of popular aerobatic biplanes, known as the Pitts Special. Curtis grew up in...
Tony Jannus

Tony Jannus

male, deceased (1916)
Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as Tony Jannus (1889-1916), was an early American pilot who piloted the first flight of the St...

Albert Berry

male
Captain Albert Berry is one of two people credited as the first person to make a successful parachute jump from a powered aeroplane. The other...
Noel Wien

Noel Wien

male
Noel Wien was a pioneer aviator in the U.S. state of Alaska and founder of Wien Air Alaska, Alaska's first airline. Born in Lake Nebagamon,...
Henri Pequet

Henri Pequet

male, deceased (1974)
Henri Pequet (1888-1974) was a pilot in the first official airmail flight on February 18 1911. The 23 year old Frenchman, in India for an airshow,...

Taras Kiceniuk Jr.

male, 54 years old
Taras Kiceniuk, Jr (c. 1955 -) was a hang glider pioneer from southern California. Kiceniuk began building hang gliders in 1971 while still in high...
Eugene Burton Ely

Eugene Burton Ely

male, deceased (1911)
Eugene Burton Ely (October 21 1886 - October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing....

Nick Mamer

male
Nicholas B. “Nick” Mamer was a noted aviation pioneer and pilot in the Pacific Northwest during the 1920s and 1930s. Mamer served with the Unit...

Frank S. Scott

male, deceased (1912)
Corporal Frank S. Scott (December 2, 1883-September 28, 1912) was the first enlisted member of the United States armed forces to lose his life in...

E. Henry Wemme

male
E. Henry Wemme (died late 1910s) was an immigrant from Germany who became a wealthy Portland, Oregon businessman. He was an active business...