Charles Blosser

1990
Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame

Blosser taught himself to fly in a Lincoln Standard with a World War I 0XX-6 engine. Throughout the 1920’s and 1930’s he thrilled audiences with airshows. Blosser traveled cross-country as a salesman for American Eagle Airplane Company, and even airlifted victims of the Republican River flood in 1935. In 1986 at 91 years of age, Blosser was the oldest certified pilot in the United States. In tribute to his role as an aviation pioneer, civic leaders in Concordia, Kansas named their airport after him. The Blosser Municipal Airport is situated on a corner of the 160—acre farm originally owned by Blosser and his wife, Isabell.