Fairgrave graduated from St. Paul Mechanic Arts High School in 1920. She went to Curtiss-Northwest Airport and tried to find someone to take her up for a parachute jump. Ray Miller, one of the pilots there at the time, would not take her, but insisted she go home and strengthen her muscles. She took his advice, but returned, making her first jump from a plane flown by Vern Omlie, who would become her future husband. She made many jumps and performed wing-walking with Omlie on a barnstorming tour of the South. They married and Phoebe learned to fly. She was quite skillful and entered women's air races and cross-country tours, winning the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland, and the Dixie Derby from Washington, D. C. to Chicago in 1930. From 1932 to 1936, she campaigned for President Roosevelt by flying around the country advertising and speaking on his behalf. He appointed her Special Advisor for Air Intelligence to the National Advisory Council for Aeronautics. She opened a flying school in Memphis and later joined the CAA, from which she retired in 1952.

Inducted 1988

One of the early pilots working for William Kidder at Curtiss-Northwest Airport in St. Paul. He instructed Phoebe Fairgrave, who would become a well-known woman pilot and racer, took her barnstorming with him around the country, and married her. He joined the 109th Observation Squadron as a pilot and was a Lieutenant in 1921. Omlie also flew along the barnstorming trail with Clarence Hinck and the Federated Fliers.

As a young man, St. Paul native Arthur Otis helped his family build Otis Lodge on Sugar Lake near Grand Rapids. In 1925, inspired by aircraft flying over the lodge, he created a landing strip amidst a golf course on the property. He and his wife, Eleanor, who hails from Hibbing, began inviting pilots from around the state to stop there for chicken dinners, overnight lodging and fishing. He established the state's first fly-in fishing resort and continued to develop the land through World War II, lengthening the runway and adding a night beacon and a seaplane base. Otis Lodge became a mecca for fly-in diners and fishers.

In 1946, Otis received his private license. With Eleanor as navigator, he flew a Piper Cub round-trip to Florida, and at the age of 72, he flew the two of them to Alaska in a Bonanza.

Inducted 1997