Kent City Historian Jack Becvar will present, “History of Kent Aviation,” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 15 at the Kent Historical Museum. Admission is $10 for museum members, $13 for nonmembers and free for students, and includes dessert, coffee and tea. Space is limited; reservations are required.
The city of Kent has been a hub for aviation development and production dating from at least as early as World War II, when many Kent residents went to work for the Boeing Company building airplanes for national defense. One of the biggest events in the city’s aviation history was Boeing’s building of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), which was used for NASA’s Apollo program, at the Kent facility in 1969.
Today there are no fewer than 14 aerospace and aviation companies and organizations operating in the Kent area. Becvar will discuss these major events and what they meant for people living in Kent.
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