Inductees
140 persons (61 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 nineteen 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 (1923-1998)
Gen. Richard H. Ellis (1919-1989)
Anne C. Eriksen (1930-2020)
James R. Sulpizi (1930-2017)

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 (1916-2011)
Ralph P. Thompson (1914-2002)

Year 2004:
Clarence E. (Ed) Atkinson (1923-2021)
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 (1939-2013)
Michael D. Brock
A. Felix duPont, Jr. (1905-1996)
Louis W. Prost (1920- 2022)
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 (1920- 2017)

Year 2010
Donald M. Clark (1923-2020)
Edward J. Czarnecki (1922-1955)
Theodore C. Freeman (1930-1964)
Stanley P. Lawruk (1924-2022)
Daniel M. Rusk, Jr. (1922-2013)
Alfred D. Walker, Jr. (1920-1995)

Year 2012:
William O. McCabe (1941-2023)
Jenness F. Steele
Ernest G. Talbert
E. N. Tyndall (1918-2017)
Tenney H. Wheatley


Year 2014:
Gordon R. Farquhar
Robert L. Farris, Jr.
Harry Griffith
Daniel T. Kirk (1948-2014)
James A. LeNoir
William F. Nutter (1918-2014)
Herman R. Richardson

Year 2016:
LeSans Alexander
David Archino
David Ham
Fred Johnson (1924-2017)
Thomas Nale
James Vreeland

Year 2018:
Thomas Carper
George Hebbel (1923-2017)
David Henderson
Kathleen Lambert
Gerard Van Dyk
Franklin Wooten

Year 2021:
Harlan Durham
Robert McMahon
Anthony NeCastro
Jason Pennypacker
Kennard Robert Wiggins (1924-2002)
Robert Wilson (1924-1963)


Year 2023:
Kip Becker
Albert Burk
Adrian Byers
Jo'Andrew Cousins
Richard Kimm (1938-2014)
A. King Lotz Jr. (1929-2014)
Year 2001:
Henry Belin du Pont (1898-1970)
Walter C. Evans, Sr. (1932-2000)
Ethel Meyer Finley (1921-2006)
Reynolds L. Jones (1920-2006)
James R. Leech
John McChesney Morgan (1915-1981)
George S. Welch (1918-1954)

Year 2003:
Wayne C. (Pappy) Brubaker (1915-1993)
John G. Hite (1914-2008)
Joseph C. Jenkins (1918-2016)
Louisa Spruance Morse (1912- 2009)
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:
V."Scotty" Bradley Gough (1922-2013)
William F. Hutchinson (Brig.Gen.Ret.)
Elinor Patricia Smith (1912-2010)
Douglas W. Thompson (1918-2010)
Col. Carol Anne Timmons (1958-2020)


Year 2009:
Rubel V. Archuleta (1914-2010)
David P. Cannavo (1955-2018)
Douglas L. Harris
Holger Hoiriis (1901-1942)
James M. Kohler
Jon A. Reynolds

Year 2011:
Daniel E. Coons, PhD (1932-2017)
Nancy J. Currie, PhD
John A. Jordan
John D. Kroening (1923-2016)
David F. McCallister (1920-1961)
John P. Renzetti

Year 2013:
Allen Chorman
James Fiorelli (1940-1994)
Joseph Hudson
John Pavlock
Rogelio Rodriguez, Jr.
Stephanie Wright

Year 2015:
Gary Dempsey
Arthur Gorman
Richard Dorsey Morgan (1905-1973)
John Reed (1914-1980)
Ernest Schwab (1932-2023)
Brian Woodcock


Year 2017:
Raymond Firmani
Sharon Forbes
Caroline duPont Prickett
Hans Reigle
Leonard Rippa (1927-2010)
Edward Scully (1940-2018)

Year 2019:
James Connell
Gaylan Crumley
Homer Reihm (1938-2023)
George Schofield (1920-2020)
Don Sloan
Harry E. Van Den Heuvel

Year 2022:
Scott Alwine
Lloyd Austin
Hugh Broomall
Larry D. Kelley
Walter Lekites III
Jo Manship
Bill Welser

Year 2024:
John Chirtea
Jeff Chorman
Michael Hales
Luna Isaac Mishoe
Jessica Stephenson
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