n a career spanning nearly 60 years, there isn't a phase in aviation that Clay Lacy hasn't been involved with.
He's flown commercial and military planes; set records in air racing; piloted the first flights of five aircraft; was a pioneer in corporate aviation in the San Fernando Valley; and developed an expertise in aerial photography for feature films and commercials.
It is for all these accomplishments that Lacy will be inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in Dayton, Ohio on July 17.
Lacy has done more flying out of Van Nuys Airport than probably any other pilot alive. He helped inaugurate the longer runway when it was extended over Sherman Way and piloted the large cargo aircraft dubbed the Pregnant Guppy, which had been built at Van Nuys.