DeLloyd Thompson

[1] On August 6, 1914, Thompson set the flight altitude record by flying to a height of 15,256 feet (4,650 m) over Overland Park, Kansas in his Day-Gyro plane.

WAKE UP AND PREPARE"[1] That same year, he broke the air speed record over Long Island by traveling 108.4 mph.

[3] In 1937, developed and constructed the DeLloydCabinaire, a 2 seat monoplane, but that venture failed, due in part to the continuing Great Depression, and only 2 were ever built.

[2] However, the plates were removed from the grounds, and were at risk of being sold for scrap before being rescued by Margaret Thompson, DeLoyd's daughter-in-law.

[1] In 2013 and 2014, Clay Kilgore, executive director of the Washington County Historical Society, led an effort to restore the plaques to the airport.

The plaque, created by Early Birds of Aviation , which was installed at the Washington County Airport in 1949.