Raymond A. Johnson

Raymond A. Johnson
Born	1912 Laramie, Albany County Wyoming, USA
Died	1984
Residence	Cheyenne, Laramie County Wyoming
Occupation	Aviator: Inductee of the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame

Raymond A. Johnson, known as Ray Johnson (1912-1984), a native of Laramie, Wyoming, was one of his state's pioneer aircraft pilots. Besides commercial flights, his career included the tasks of weather observation, crop dusting, air racing, and lookouts for forest fires. In 2013, he became posthumously the 22nd inductee into the Wyoming Aviation Hall of Fame in Cheyenne.

During World War II, Johnson was a test pilot on the North American P-51 Mustang and North American B-25 Mitchell for North American Aviation in Kansas City, Missouri. Afterwards, he worked at airports in Mitchell, Nebraska; Huron, South Dakota, and Great Falls, Montana. Johnson also flew for such companies as Rocky Mountain Airways and Plains Airways. He was operations manager of the United States Army Air Corps training program at Cheyenne, Laramie, and Fort Morgan in northeastern Colorado.

Johnson was certified by the former Civil Aeronautics Authority to conduct flight training at the University of Wyoming in Laramie and at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1951, Johnson became flight instructor and later flight commander at Columbus Air Force Base in Columbus, Mississippi, where he was responsible for training pilots during the Korean War. He was one of the first flight instructors at the time of the formation in 1947 of the United States Air Force. Pilots entering the Korean War were trained at a time when planes were switched from piston engines to jet aircraft.

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