A pioneer commercial pilot who logged 10,031 hours, 38,225 flights, and 18,259 passengers and never lost a passenger or student. Fuller worked as a stunt pilot, a test pilot, and served as president of TWA.
Byron Gordon MacNabb served in the Navy from 1943 to 1948 as an ordnance officer, including early work in barrage anti-aircraft rockets tested to defend the carrier USS Midway from kamikaze attacks. He worked for Sandia in New Mexico, and then Pullman, directing pioneering research in production and storage of cryogenic liquid hydrogen for the nuclear weapons program. He was hired by Convair in 1953, becoming Operations Manager for the Atlas development flight test program at Cape Canaveral throughout the development and flight career of the Atlas missile. From 1966 to 1975 he worked for General Electric as Manager of Test and Operations for its military space projects.
Capt. Knefler McGinnis served in the U.S. Navy from 1912 to 1946, having been trained as a naval aviator and serving aboard several naval destroyers. He was presented a Distinguished Flying Cross as commanding officer for a record-setting 1935 flight.
Collection is of artifacts collected since the 1950s for Caribair passenger airline company which ceased operations in 1973.
Carl Gwartney was born June 11, 1920 in Hooper, Colorado. He grew up in that rural state until hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Carl was 21, newly married, and still living in his hometown. He was a part owner of a light plane, had a pilot’s license and had amassed more than 300 flying hours. During the Second World War, he was a glider pilot in the 29th Troop Carrier Squadron
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