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Our Enshrinees
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Pilot & Military Leader
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Enshrined: 2018
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Birth: January, 1942
Ronald R. Fogleman
- Joined the 510th Tactical Fighter Squadron in June, 1968 as a fighter pilot stationed at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam. Fogleman was shot down in 1968 and escaped by clinging to the outside of a AH-1 Cobra helicopter.
- Taught as an associate professor of history at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Served as an F-4 pilot, instructor pilot and commander of the Laredo forward air controller flight while stationed in Thailand.
- Assigned to the 36th Tactical Fighter Wing at Bitburg Air Base, West Germany, in 1976 as assistant deputy commander for operations where his unit became the first operational F-15 aircraft wing stationed outside the continental United States.
- Served as chief of staff of the United States Air Force.
- Amassed 6,800 flying hours in fighter, transport, tanker and rotary wing aircraft, 315 combat missions, and logged 806 hours of combat flying in fighter aircraft.
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Pilot & Military Leader
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Enshrined: 2018
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Birth: January, 1942
You’re Invited 2023 Enshrinement
Join us for the “Oscar Night of Aviation” as we induct a new group of aviation leaders into the National Aviation Hall of Fame!
Friday, September 22, 2023
National Building Museum | Washington, DC
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