Training and Workforce
Bizav’s Bolen, Carr among Kansas Hall of Fame Inductees
Class spans test piloting, ATC, and fractional ownership; Clay Lacy receives lifetime achievement award
Ed Bolen's nephew, Patrick Bolen, accepted on his behalf.
Ed Bolen’s nephew, Patrick Bolen, accepted on his behalf. © Christopher Clark/NBAA

Ed Bolen, who retired from NBAA last week to focus on cancer treatment, was inducted into the Kansas Aviation Hall of Fame last evening as part of a six-member class of 2026 honored in a ceremony at WSU Tech’s National Center for Aviation Training.

A native Kansan, Bolen was introduced by Tim Rogers, the retired executive director of Salina Regional Airport and a 2024 inductee. Rogers credited Bolen’s work as legislative director for then-Senator Nancy Kassebaum, and later as president and CEO of GAMA and of NBAA, with enabling the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 and the Wichita manufacturing growth that followed.

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