OSHKOSH, WIS. – Six aviators will be inducted into the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame (WAHF) at the EAA Museum in October 2014 including Brig. Gen. Peter Drahn (ret.), Vice Admiral James H. Flatley, Jr., Donald Voland, and brothers James, Ed, and Ray Knaup.
Drahn had a 30-year career in the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard, a 20-year career as director at Dane County Regional Airport in Madison, and as executive director of the Wisconsin Airport Management Association (WAMA).
Flatley of Green Bay, Wis., was a World War II ace, Naval tactician, and served as Commanding Officer of the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kansas.
Voland served in the Armed Forces and in 1986, established Aero Optics Inc. in East Troy, Wis.
The Knaup brothers were from Milwaukee, Wis., and early aviators who founded Midwest Airways in September 1927.