Hall of Fame
The Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame began in 1990. It preceded the opening of the Iowa Aviation Museum, home of the Hall of Fame.
Nominations to the Hall of Fame are accepted until February 1st of each year. A selection committee, appointed by the Museum's Board of Directors, evaluates the nominations on a point system. A permanent tribute for each Hall of Fame inductee is featured at the Museum. The Museum is the only place in Iowa which focuses on the state's aviation heritage.
If you have a nomination for the Hall of Fame, please download the application and send it to the Iowa Aviation Museum.
Ronald Eugene Narmi was born in Council Bluffs on June 27, 1933. Growing up he loved to build model airplanes. As a boy in WWII he watched Army Air Force glider pilots train at Eppley Airfield in Omaha while standing…
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Jerome C. Hunsaker was born on August 26, 1886, at Creston, Iowa. Hunsaker was admitted to the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1904, and graduated at the head of his class in 1908. He obtained an appointment to MIT…
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Colonel Charles C. Bock was born on November 24, 1925, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Col. Charles C. ‘Charlie’ Bock, Jr. graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering in 1949. He had a long and distinguished…
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Marie Mountain Clark was born at West Liberty in 1915. Reared on a farm in West Des Moines, Iowa, she and her younger sister were assigned to turn on the aircraft marker lights on the Des Moines Radio Range tower. …
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Carroll T. Tomkins was born in Stockport, Iowa in 1923. Carroll T. “TOMMY†Tomkins career would take him from the aerial battlefields of World War II to the operations of a successful southwest Iowa flight service and continued as a…
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Irwin (Irv) Lindner was born in Keokuk, Iowa in 1916. He became interested in flying early in his childhood; although, his early attempts at flying were disastrous, jumping from haystacks on the family farm with homemade wings. This did not…
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Fred M. Wallace was born in Davenport, Iowa on the 4th of July in 1900. In 1919, he and his brother Frank formed the Wallace Brothers Aero Company and established Wallace Field, the first airport in Bettendorf. The brothers provided…
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Milford L. Juhl was born in Guthrie County. At the age of 12, he was sent to live with an uncle when his mother died. He graduated from high school in Nevada, Iowa. Milford joined the Army after Pearl Harbor…
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Born in Missouri, Olin “Olie†Pash came to Iowa as a young child. He was educated in Harlan, Iowa. After serving in the Navy, he returned to Harlan and became a farm implement dealer. In 1987, he became the manager…
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George Everette Day was born in Sioux City, Iowa on February 24, 1925. In 1942, he dropped out of high school and enlisted in the Marines. He served two and a half years in the South Pacific during World War…
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