Randy Acord, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Randy Acord

American historian

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1919

Place of Birth: Clarendon, Texas, United States

Date of Death: 19-May-2008

Profession: historian, aircraft pilot

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Randy Acord

  • Randall Keith Acord (February 27, 1919 – May 19, 2008) was a historian of American aviation who in 1992 founded the Alaska Air Pioneer Museum at Pioneer Park in Fairbanks, Alaska.Acord was a native of Clarendon, the seat of Donley County in the Texas Panhandle some sixty miles east of Amarillo.
  • He attended college for two years and worked as an electrician, when on August 18, 1941, he enlisted in the United States Army Air Corps in Lubbock, Texas.
  • In 1943, Acord was a young test pilot stationed at Ladd Field, now Fort Wainwright, an Army post in Fairbanks.
  • He flew planes with the Cold Weather Testing Station and experimented with heating systems and landing planes with skis.
  • He left the then United States Air Force with the rank of major.
  • Subsequently, he was awarded the Alaska-Siberia Lend Lease Award for his contributions to Russian-North American relations during World War II.Acord had a vast knowledge of aeronautics.
  • He recorded an oral history of the technical details of his flights.
  • His wife of fifty years, Marion Acord, who survived him, took detailed notes for the benefit of future researchers.
  • Mike Cox, a former manager at Pioneer Park, which houses the aviation museum, said that Acord possessed a "depth of knowledge about anything related to aviation .
  • .
  • .
  • a treasure trove of information."Acord conceived the idea for the museum in the late 1970s when the military was considering closing Fort Wainwright.
  • However, the post remains open.
  • The museum opened to the public in 1992 after Acord spent thousands of dollars of his own money to overcome construction setbacks.Acord told the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner that "There is so much history going away nowadays.
  • People don't record events, and then they pass on, and it's gone.
  • I would like to see this history passed on to the younger people of this country."Acord flew a small carrier for several years and went into business as a food distributor to outlying villages.
  • He continued to fly until he was in his early eighties.
  • He died in Fairbanks from complications of pneumonia.He was a member of the Air Force Memorial Foundation, chaired by H.
  • Ross Perot.
  • He was a member of the Federal Aviation Administration "Master Pilot Award List".

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