Inductees

Seventy-three persons (29 posthumously) have been inducted into the Delaware Aviation Hall of Fame since the first honors ceremony was held in 2000. In addition, the DAHF has conferred the Delaware Youth Aviation Achievement Award upon nine young persons who aspire to a career with wings.

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Inaugural Year 2000:

Giuseppe M. Bellanca (1886-1960)

Janet I. Churchill

Floyd H. L. Durham (1918- 2010)

George P. Durney

Gen. Richard H. Ellis (1919-1989)

Anne C. Eriksen

James R. Sulpizi

Year 2002:

Richard C. du Pont, Sr. (1911-1943)

Edmond I. (Eddie) Edwards (1913-2009)

Frank R. (Mike) Guididas (1912-2005)

Hugh R. Sharp, Jr. (1909-1990)

William W. Spruance

Ralph P. Thompson (1914-2002)

Year 2004:

Clarence E. (Ed) Atkinson

J. Allison Buck (1897-1933)

David G. Clark

Richard C. (Kip) du Pont, Jr. (1937-1986)

Ulysses S. (Sam) Nero (1898-1980)

Susan Rogers Regele (1950-1992)

Year 2006:

Marilyn M. Alderman

Michael D. Brock

A. Felix duPont, Jr.

Louis W. Prost

Robert P. Sheaffer

Brig. Gen. (Ret) Ronald B. Stewart

Year 2008:

Willis Lloyd Carter (1920-2010)

Theodore P. Crichton

Alfred F. Johnson Jr.

Michael D. Leister

Norman H. Runge (1934-2006)

William C. Voigt

Year 2010

Donald M. Clark

Edward J. Czarnecki (1922-1955)

Theodore C. Freeman (1930-1964)

Stanley P. Lawruk

Daniel M. Rusk, Jr.

Alfred D. Walker, Jr. (1920-1995)

Year 2001:

Henry Belin du Pont

Walter C. Evans, Sr. (1932-2000)

Ethel Meyer Finley (1921-2006)

Reynolds L. Jones

James R. Leech

John McChesney Morgan

George S. Welch

Year 2003:

Wayne C. (Pappy) Brubaker (1915-1993)

John G. Hite (1914-2008)

Joseph C. Jenkins

Louisa Spruance Morse

John J. Strusowski (1918-2010)

George R. (Bobby) Veazey, Sr.

Year 2005:

Joseph A. Barkley, Jr. (1923-2005)

Rayvon Burleson (1920-2003)

Wallace B. McCafferty (1918-1987)

Ralph L. Minker, Jr. (1924- 2008)

Linda Morelli

J. Byrton D. Winder

Year 2007:

Virginia "Scotty" Bradley Gough

William F. Hutchinson (Brig.Gen.Ret.)

Elinor Patricia Smith (1912-2010)

Douglas W. Thompson (1918-2010)

Col. Carol Anne Timmons

Year 2009:

Rubel V. Archuleta (1914-2010)

David P. Cannavo

Douglas L. Harris

Holger Hoiriis (1901-1942)

James M. Kohler

Jon A. Reynolds

Year 2011:

Daniel E. Coons, PhD

Nancy J. Currie, PhD

John A. Jordan

John D. Kroening

David F. McCallister (1920-1961)

John P. Renzetti