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Name
  
Grover Nash


Died
  
1970

Grover C. Nash Grover C Nash Hill Air Force Base Display

Grover Cleveland Nash (1911–1970) was the first black pilot to fly the mail for the US Postal Service. He was first issued a pilot's license in 1938 and was a member of the Challenger Air Pilot's Association in Chicago and a founding member of the National Airmen's Association of America.

Grover Nash was issued a private pilot's license in 1939 by Harry Hopkins, the US Secretary of Commerce.

Grover Nash of was one of many African-American aviators who lived and worked in the Chicago area where the Challenger Aero Club was founded.

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Grover C. Nash Wikipedia