Glenn Messer

[1][2] He began his flying career by taking lessons on a Wright biplane from aviator George Gustafson in Bay City, Michigan.

He and fellow pilot Jack Turner completed a successful demonstration U. S. Air Mail flight from Birmingham's Roberts Field to Marr Field in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on March 24, 1925, under a temporary commission.

In 1927 he started the Southern Aircraft Corporation which designed and built the Air Boss.

The highway from 5th Avenue North in downtown Birmingham to the airport was named the Glenn E. Messer Airport Highway in his honor.

[citation needed] In 1991 he was inducted into the Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame.