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Collection Summary
Collection: FND003 - SHSND Foundation - Aviation Hall of Fame
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 00008
Title: Vincent S. Buraas
Date: 2000
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Summary: Vincent Buraas, a native of Northwood, ND, began his aviation career working for Douglas Aircraft Company in Chicago as a manufacturing design engineer for the C-54 cargo plane. He served one year in the US Navy during WWII. In 1940, Vince Buraas began earning many ratings over the years. He purchased his first aircraft, an Aeronca, in 1941. He established Vince Field as the first airport in Northwood Township in 1946. He also organized the Vincent School of Aeronautics in 1947 and operated it for forty years. In 1947, Vince began operating an aerial crop spraying service. By 1960 he was operating in six states. He was an original member of the Half A Hundred Club (100/2) whose members are the fifty largest ag operators in the USA. He was the first to have the Navy TBM modified and approved for crop spraying in North Dakota. The TBMs were also used for fighting forest fires in Minnesota. Vince Buraas was an innovator and developed many new ways to use emerging technology. He was the first aerial applicator to use chemicals to effectively control grain aphids and barley thrips in the 1950s. He also was the first to use infrared aerial photography to detect blight in pinto beans and for other crop diseases that could be treated with chemicals in the early 1970s. Over the years he worked closely with North Dakota State University in many ag research projects and continued to train pilots, giving dual flight instruction in tail dragger aircraft and biannual flight reviews.
Red ID: FND_I_77357 Image ID: 509178 Image Notes: 10950 00003 00008

Collection: FND003 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - Aviation Hall of Fame
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Summary: The North Dakota Aviation Hall of Fame honors those in North Dakota aviation who brought exceptional recognition to themselves during their aviation careers. A 12-member committee of the North Dakota Aviation Council judges the merits of nominees based on: - Major achievements in aviation in North Dakota - - Significant contributions to the development of others in aviation in North Dakota - - Special service to the State of North Dakota in aviation activities - - Activities that bring credit to North Dakota aviation either nationally or internationally - - Significant contributions to the local community or the state of North Dakota that are not related to aviation (service clubs, church related, political action, etc.) -

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