Biography

Dan Hagedorn served as Senior Curator and Director of Collections at The Museum of Flight from 2008 until his retirement in 2016. Prior to his tenure at TMOF, he was Adjunct Curator and Research Team Leader at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Hagedorn is a graduate of Villa Maria College, the State University of New York, and the Command and General Staff College, and served in the U.S. Armed Forces for almost three decades. He has written numerous books and articles about aviation history in general and Latin American aviation in particular. For his work in documenting Latin American aviation history, he received the Orden Merito Santos-Dumont from the Brazilian Government in 2006. Since his retirement in 2016, Hagedorn has served as a Curator Emeritus at the Museum.

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