Dates

• Existence: 1901 March 7 - 1971 January 14

Biography

Jack Kerr was an aeronautical engineer for Curtiss-Wright Corporation in the late 1930s and early 1940s and then Consolidated Aircraft until the 1960s.

John Alexander "Jack" Kerr was born on March 7, 1901 in Colorado to Joseph and Maude (Guthrie) Kerr. Kerr studied engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He took flight training at Brooks Field Army Air Corps Flight Training School and participated the in Summer Training program at Mitchel Field in New York in 1929 and then served with the 302nd Observation Squadron also based at Mitchel Field.

Kerr worked at the Curtiss-Wright Corporation as a project manager on the XP-46 program based in Buffalo, New York and Ohio. Around 1949 he moved to Fort Worth, Texas to work on power plants for Consolidated Aircraft/Convair. He served as engineer for propulsion on the B-36 and B-58 programs, retiring in 1966.

Kerr was a member of the National Rifle Association and the American Rocket Society. He was married to Frances Kerr. He died on January 14, 1971 in Fort Worth.

Biographical note derived from donor information and records on Ancestry.com

Occupations

• Aeronautical engineers

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