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This section will help you get a glimpse of some of the most famous aviation pioneers who have helped shape the industry. Please click on a name to learn more about the pioneer in question.
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A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P R S
T V W Y
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A

Clément Ader
1841-1925
Sir John Alcock 1892-1919
Oleg Antonov 1906-1984


B

General Italo Balbo 1896-1940
Captain Frank S. Barnwell 1880-1938
Jean Gardner Batten 1909-1982
Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922
Lawrence Dale Bell 1894-1956
Giuseppe Mario Bellanca 1886-1960
Noel Pemberton Billing 1881-1948
Mark Birkigt 1878-1953
Ronald Eric Bishop 1903-1989
Robert Blackburn 1885-1955
Louis Blériot 1872-1936
Marcel Bloch 1890-1938
William E. Boeing 1881-1956
Hauptmann Oswald Boelcke 1891-1916
Gabriel Borel (birth and death unknown)
Air Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker 1877-1930
Louis Breguet 1880-1955
Paul W.S. Bulman 1896-1963
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd 1888-1957


C

Sir Sydney Camm 1893-1966
Gaston & René Caudron 1882-1915, 1884-1959
Sir George Cayley 1773-1857
Clyde Cessna 1880-1954
Sir Roy Chadwick 1893-1947
Octave Chanute 1832-1910
Juan de la Cierva 1895-1936
Colonel Virginus E. Clark 1886-1948
Henri Coanda 1886-1972
Sir Alan Cobham 1894-1973
Jacqueline Cochran 1906-1980
Samuel Franklin Cody 1867-1913
Paul Cornu 1881-1944
Captain Dieudonné Costes 1896-1973
Group Captain John Cunningham 1917-
Glenn H. Curtiss 1878-1930


D

Sir Geoffrey de Havilland 1882-1965
Léon Delagrange 1873-1910
Armand Deperdussin 1869-1924
Lieutenant General James Doolittle 1896-1993
Professor Claude Dornier 1884-1969
Donald Wills Douglas 1892-1981
Armand & Henri Dufaux 1883-1941, 1879-1980
Félix du Temple de la Croix 1823-1890


E

Amelia Earhart 1898-1937
Sir George Edwards 1908-
Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer 1871-1946
Robert Esnault-Pelterie 1881-1957
Doktor Igo Etrich 1879-1967


F

Henri Fabre 1882-1984
Sir Richard Fairey 1887-1957
Henry & Maurice Farman 1874-1958, 1877-1964
Sir Roy Fedden 1885-1973
Anton Flettner 1885-1961
Doktor Heinrich Karl Johann Focke 1890-1979
Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker 1890-1939
Henry Phillip Folland 1889-1954


G

Sir Arthur Gouge 1890-1969
Hans Grade 1879-1946
Claude Grahame-White 1879-1959
Louis Greve 1882-1942
Daniel Guggenheim 1856-1930
Mikhail Guryevich 1893-1976


H

Lawrence Hargrave 1850-1915
Harry George Hawker 1889-1921
Edward H. Heinemann 1908-1991
Ernst Heinkel 1888-1958
William Samuel Henson 1812-1888
Herbert John Louis Hinkler 1892-1933
Jiro Horikoshi 1903-1982
Reimar & Walter Horten 1915-1993
Howard Robard Hughes 1905-1976


I

Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin 1894-1977


J

Amy Johnson 1903-1941
Clarence Leonard Johnson 1910-1990
Professor Hugo Junkers 1859-1935

K

Alexander Kartveli 1896-1974
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith 1897-1935
Frederick Koolhoven 1886-1946


L

Doctor Frederick William Lanchester 1868-1946
Samuel Pierpont Langley 1834-1906
Syemyen Alekseyevich Lavochkin 1900-1960
Jean-Marie le Bris 1808-1872
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Léon Levavasseur 1863-1921
Otto Lilienthal 1848-1896
Charles Augustus Lindbergh 1902-1974
Professor Alexander Martin Lippisch 1894-1976
Allan Haines Lockheed 1889-1969
Grover Cleveland Loening 1888-1976


M

Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim 1840-1916
James Smith McDonnell 1899-1980
Professor Willy E. Messerschmitt 1898-1978
Artyem Ivanovich Mikoyan 1905-1970
Mikhail Leontyevich Mil 1909-1970
Reginald Joseph Mitchell 1895-1937
James Allan Mollison 1905-1959
Léon & Robert Morane 1885-1918, 1886-1968
Aleksandr F. Mozhaiskii 1825-1890


N

Édouard de Nieuport 1875-1911
John Dudley North 1893-1968
John Knudsen Northrop 1895-1981


O

Dr. Hans Von Ohain 1911-1998


P

Sir Frederick Handley Page 1885-1962
Percy Sinclair Pilcher 1867-1899
Rheinhold Platz 1886-1966
Nikolai Nikolayevich Polikarpov 1892-1944
Wiley Post 1898-1935
Henry Charles Alexandre Potez 1891-1981
Zygmunt Pulawski 1901-1931


R

Sir Alliott Verdon Roe 1877-1958
Adolf Karl Rohrbach 1889-1939


S

Alberto Santos-Dumont 1873-1932
Raymond Saulnier 1881-1964
Louis & Laurent Seguin 1869-1918, 1883-1944
Alexander Prokofieff de Seversky 1894-1974
Horace Leonard, Albert Eustace & Hugh Oswald Short 1872-1917, 1875-1932, 1883-1969
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky 1889-1972
Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith 1888-1989
Dr. Elmer & Lawrence Burst Sperry 1860-1930, 1892-1923
William Bushnell Stout 1880-1956
John Stringfellow 1799-1883
Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi 1898-1975


T

Kurt Waldemar Tank 1898-1983
Juan Terry Trippe 1899-1981
Andrei Nikolayevich Tupolev 1888-1972


V

Alfred Victor Verville 1890-1970
Gabriel & Charles Voisin 1880-1973, 1888-1912


W

Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle 1907-1996
Wilbur & Orville Wright 1867-1912, 1871-1948


Y

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev 1906-1989
General Charles Elwood Yeager 1923-
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