{"id":308,"date":"2019-11-07T19:19:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T19:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimaair.wpengine.com\/?post_type=hall_of_fame&#038;p=308"},"modified":"2019-12-30T11:20:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T18:20:34","slug":"elgin-roy-newell","status":"publish","type":"hall_of_fame","link":"https:\/\/pimaair.org\/hall-of-fame\/elgin-roy-newell\/","title":{"rendered":"Elgin Roy Newell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Elgin Roy Newell<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame<\/strong><br \/><strong><em><span style=\"color: #2387c3;\">Enshrined 2007<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Elgin Newell was born on September 10, 1906, in Balsa, California. He received his pilot\u2019s license in 1932 and went to work for Browne Flying Service in Sacramento, California. In the early 1940\u2019s he went to work for Southwest Airways as a flight instructor at Thunderbird Field near Phoenix, Arizona. 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