Hansel Wallace Turley, Jr.

Preferred Name: Turk
Date of Birth: December 15, 1930
Highest Military Grade: 0-5 – Lieutenant Colonel
Hometown: Brighton, AL
Headed West Date: August 11, 2008

Hansel “Turk” Turley served in the USAF from 1951 to 1971. “Turley of Mariposa is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force (USAF) who has done just about everything with airplanes, including flying 105 North Vietnam fighter pilot missions in a F-4 Phantom II.

Now in retirement, Turley stays in the air as a member of the 475th Aero Demo Squadron, a selectively qualified air show team known as “Eagle Flight.” Eagle Flight is the only West Coast based bi-wing flight of four planes that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) permits to fly in close formation for airshows.”(1)

Source: (1) https://www.f-106deltadart.com/piwigo/picture.php?/4124