The Aviation Hall Of Fame & Museum of New Jersey was founded in 1972 and is dedicated to the preservation of the New Jersey's aviation and space heritage. The museum offers visitors an opportunity to view historic air and space equipment and artifacts, photographs, art and an extensive model collection. The Library has more than 4,000 volumes and hundreds of aviation video tapes. The building is located at 400 Fred Wehran Drive, Teterboro Airport, Teterboro, New Jersey. FAA diagram of Teterboro Airport (TEB) Main article: Transportation in New York City Teterboro Airport (IATA: TEB, ICAO: KTEB) is a general aviation reliever airport located in the Boroughs of Teterboro, Moonachie, and Hasbrouck Heights in Bergen County, New Jersey[1]. It is operated by the Port Authority of New... Map highlighting Teterboros location within Bergen County. ...

Aviation timeline for New Jersey

• 1793 French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard ascended from Philadelphia, flew across the Delaware River and landed in Deptford, New Jersey. The Western Hemisphere’s first flight took 45 minutes and covered 15 miles on January 9.
• 1830 Charles Durant of Jersey City, New Jersey became the first American balloonist to fly.
• 1863 Solomon Andrews (balloonist) of Perth Amboy, New Jersey constructed and flew the first American dirigible.
• 1909 The Boland brothers of Rahway, New Jersey built and flew New Jersey's first fixed-wing aircraft. They were also the first to fly in South America.
• 1912 Oliver G. Simmons in a Wright Flyer carried the first official sack of mail across the Raritan Bay from South Amboy to Perth Amboy.
• 1918 Five New Jersey combat pilots became World War I flying aces.
• 1921 The world’s largest hangar and America’s first dirigible, the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), were built in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
• 1922 The world’s largest airplane, the Barling Bomber, was constructed at Teterboro Airport by the Wittemann brothers.
• 1923 Wright aeronautical air-cooled Whirlwind engines, built in Princeton, New Jersey.
• 1925 Hadley Field in South Plainfield, New Jersey was established as an airmail hub.
• 1926 Teterboro-built Fokker trimotor powered by a Whirlwind engines was the first to fly over the North Pole with Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett at the controls.
• 1927 Charles Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic in the Spirit of St. Louis powered by a Whirlwind engine. Two weeks later, Clarence Chamberlin in a Wright-Bellanca built in Princeton, New Jersey flew to Germany with a Whirlwind engine. A month later, Richard Byrd used a Whirlwind engine to fly to France.
• 1928 Newark Airport opened.
• 1929 William Conrad (New Jersey) at Newark Airport was America's first air traffic controller.
• 1930 Fokker build’s the world’s largest passenger plane, a Fokker F-32 at Teterboro Airport.
• 1930 Eddie August Schneider of Jersey City, New Jersey established the transcontinental airspeed record for people under 18 years of age.
• 1932 Amelia Earhart prepares for her solo transatlantic flight at Teterboro Airport
• 1933 Teaneck, New Jersey established the first high school aviation course in the nation.
• 1933 The Navy dirigible USS Akron (ZRS-4) crashes in the Atlantic Ocean off Barnegat, New Jersey.
• 1936 Chester Decker of Glen Rock, New Jersey becomes the National Soaring Champion. He won the title again in 1939.
• 1937 Hindenburg ignites at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
• 1941 Civil Air Patrol is founded in New Jersey by Gill Rob Wilson.
• 1942-1945 General Motors’ Eastern Aircraft Division built 13,500 Grumman fighter planes at Linden and Trenton plants. The Curtiss-Wright Corporation built 281,164 engines and 146,468 electric propellers in plants in six north Jersey locations.
• 1945 Major Thomas McGuire of Ridgewood, New Jersey became America’s second leading flying ace with 38 enemy kills.
• 1945 General Frederick Castle of Mountain Lakes, New Jersey 1st Lt. Kenneth Walsh of Jersey City and McGuire were recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
• 1947 Reaction Motors of Denville, New Jersey developed the rocket engine for the Bell X-1
• 1949 Bill Odom flew a single-engine Beach Bonanza non-stop from Hawaii to Teterboro.
• 1953 Charles J. Fletcher of Sussex, New Jersey invents and flies the world’s first hovercraft.
• 1968 Walter M. Schirra of Oradell, New Jersey becomes the only astronaut to fly in all three spacecraft. The Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
• 1969 Edwin Aldrin of Montclair, New Jersey was the first astronaut to land a vehicle on the moon.
• 1973 Malcolm Forbes of Far Hills, New Jersey made the first coast-to-coast flight in a hot air balloon.
• 1980 Leo Loudenslager, of Sussex, New Jersey won the World Aerobatic championship. Throughout his career he won seven National Aerobatic championships.
• 1984 Astronaut Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, of Paterson, New Jersey was the first woman to walk in space.
• 1991 During Desert Storm, Major Marie Rossi of Oradell, New Jersey was the first American woman to fly in combat.
• 1991 Rick Trader flew his home-built Ultralight aircraft 15,000 miles from coast to coast and north to Alaska before returning to New Jersey.
• 1994 Kenneth Johnson (pilot) and Larry Cioppi of Ringoes, New Jersey flew around the world in their Glassair monoplane.

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Honorees

Bert Acosta (1895-1954) in 1927 Bert Acosta (1895-1954) in New Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport, CT, September 02, 1954 Obituary in New Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport, CT, September 02, 1954 Bertrand Blanchard Acosta (January 1, 1895 - September 1, 1954) was an aviator who flew in the Spanish Civil War and was... Buzz in the LM Colonel Edwin Eugene Buzz Aldrin, Jr. ... Bernt Balchen, D.F.C., (23 October 1899 – 17 October 1973), was a Norwegian-American polar (and general) aviation pioneer. ... Floyd Bennett (25 October 1890 – 25 April 1928) was an aviator who flew with Richard E. Byrd to the North Pole in 1926. ... Jean-Pierre Blanchard (aka Jean Pierre François Blanchard), (7 July 1753 – 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, most remembered a pioneer in aviation and ballooning. ... Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, USN (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was a pioneering American polar explorer and famous aviator. ... Frederick Walker Castle (14 October 1908 - 24 December 1944) was a general officer in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, and a winner of the Medal of Honor. ... Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893-1976) Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893-1976) Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (November 11, 1893 – October 30, 1976) was the second man to solo pilot across the Atlantic Ocean, and he was the first to carry a passenger. ... Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893-1976) Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (1893-1976) Clarence Duncan Chamberlin (November 11, 1893 – October 30, 1976) was the second man to solo pilot across the Atlantic Ocean, and he was the first to carry a passenger. ... New York Times; November 11, 1918 Robert Joseph Collier (June 17, 1876 – November 9, 1918) was the publisher of Colliers Weekly magazine and president of the Aero Club of America. ... Amelia Earhart (1897-1937?) Tyler Allen Rowden is a douchebag Earhart was an influential early female pilot[1]instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, a womens pilots organization[2]. Among her many awards and achievements, Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross[3... Charles J. Fletcher is an American inventor and businessman, the original inventor of the Hovercraft and holder of over seventy patents. ... Anton Herman Gerard Anthony Fokker (April 6, 1890 – December 23, 1939), was born in Kediri (Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia) and became a Dutch aircraft manufacturer. ... Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. ... William Frederick Bull Halsey, Jr. ... Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. ... Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an author and pioneering American aviator. ... Maj. ... Clyde Upside-Down Pangborn was the first person to fly non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. ... Walter M. “Wally” Schirra Walter Marty Schirra, Jr. ... Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan, Ph. ... Trippe, Time, 1933 Juan Terry Trippe (June 27, 1899 – April 3, 1981) was an airline entrepreneur and pioneer. ... Kenneth Ambrose Walsh (24 November 1916 - 30 July 1998) was a leading United States Marine Corps fighter ace in World War II. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Walsh enlisted in the Marines at age 17, becoming a mechanic and radioman. ... Gill Robb Wilson was an American pilot, Presbyterian minister, and military advocate. ...

External links

• Official website