Albert Francis Hegenberger
Aviator, United States Army general
Born on: September 30, 1895Died on: August 31, 1983
Aged: 87 years 335 days (1055 months)
Birth Sign: Libra
Albert Francis Hegenberger was a major general in the United States Air Force and a pioneering aviator who set a flight distance record with Lester J.
Maitland, completing the first transpacific flight to Hawaii in 1927 as navigator of the Bird of Paradise. Hegenberger was an aeronautical engineer of note, earning both the Mackay Trophy (1927) and Collier Trophy (1934) for achievement.
Hegenberger also invented the non-directional beacon, adopted for both military and civil use.
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