2021 Inductee
Forrest Lovley
Forrest Lovley has had a lifelong passion for vintage aviation. He learned to fly in Minnesota during high school, and at age 18, just after graduation, made a solo flight from Minneapolis to Maine. He returned in a Model A-powered Pietenpol Air Camper, which had been built in 1933, some 30 years earlier. Forrest was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he served in the Airborne Infantry. In 1976, he married his wife, Linda, and went on to raise two sons, Vaughn and Matthew. Alongside raising a family, Forrest managed to restore more than 15 antique airplanes.
IIn 1972, he restored an original Model A Pietenpol Sky Scout with a Chevrolet Vega auto engine, winning Best Auto-Powered Homebuilt at Oshkosh in 1972. Five years later, he restored the Kari-Keen Sioux Coupe, one of just 32 examples ever built. His Sioux Coupe won Grand Champion Antique at Oshkosh in 1977. In 1980, Forrest rebuilt the Wittman Big X, a one-of-a-kind build by Steve Wittman from 1945.
Previous Inductees
Steve Dyer
John Richard Turgyan
Ron Alexander
Jim Moss
Phil Coulson
Dale "Gus" Gustafson
Timothy Talen
Susan Dusenbury
Clyde Smith Jr.
John W. Underwood
Morton Lester
Stephen Pitcairn
Bill Pancake
Chester L. Peek
Charlie Harris
Richard Knutson
Charlie Nelson
Espie "Butch" Joyce
Al Kelch
Nick Rezich
John M. Miller
Ted Koston
Roy Wicker
Jack Cox
Gene Chase
Tom Flock
Edward C. Wegner
None
Harold Armstrong
Ann Pellegreno
Paul Poberezny
Jim Younkin
None
Joe Juptner
Cole Palen
Kelly Viets
None
E.E. "Buck" Hilbert
George York