David Walter Menard

Preferred Name: Dave
Date of Birth: May 5, 1936
Highest Military Grade: E-8 – Master Sergeant
Hometown: Elmhurst, IL
Headed West Date: February 5, 2013

Dave Menard knew more than almost anyone about the F-100. Author of many books on military aircraft, he was the go-to guy if you needed to know something about the Hun.

He followed his boyhood dream and joined the air force in 1955 where he served as a maintainer of aircraft in Africa, four countries

in Europe, Greenland, and five Asian countries, in addition to six stateside postings. After retiring as a master sergeant in 1977, he immediately continued his work on aircraft at the Air Force museum at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, later serving as a historian due to his encyclopedic knowledge of aviation history.

Retiring from that is 1999, he began following his other passion, care of children by volunteering at the Dayton children’s Hospital, amassing 32,000 hours, the equivalent of working 16 years at forty hours a week fifty weeks a year!!!

As a member of the Super Sabre Society, Dave was always there when the association called upon him for technical and historical information – He was a true aviation and military professional in every respect and held in high regard by our members. (source: Benjamin Dailey)

He will be missed.