Charles Oswald Cary

Background

Cary, Charles Oswald was born on July 10, 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Charles P. and Adeline J. (Oswald) Cary.

Education

Student, Northeastern U., 1937-1939; student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1941-1942.

Career

With commercial airlines, 1936-1944; superintendent operations, general traffic manager, Alaska Star Airlines, 1943-1944; executive assistant to chairman, Civil Aeronautics Board, 1944-1946; special assistant to assistant secretary navy for air, 1946-1948; member, Civil Transportation Aircraft Evaluation and Development Board, 1948-1949; executive secretary, Air Coordinating Committee, 1949-1954; general secretary, Air Transportation Mobilization Survey, National Security Resources Board, 1950-1951; deputy administrator, Defense Air Transportation Administration, 1951-1954; director marketing & sales electronics division, Curtiss-Wright Corporation, 1954-1963; vice president, Hazeltine Corporation, 1963-1965; assistant administrator department transportation international aviation affairs, Federal Aviation Administration, 1965-1978; special representative of administrator, Federal Aviation Administration, Brussels, Belgium, 1978-1979; retired, 1979; senior lecturer, director international studies, Flight Transportation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979-1995. Member United States delegate 1st assembly Provisional International Civil Aviation Organisation, 1945, United States delegations assemblies, 1947, 51, 53, 70, 74, 77. Consultant to administrator Federal Aviation Administration, 1963.

Board of Governors Flight Safety Foundation, Washington, 1979-1993. Vice chairman State of N.H. Aviation Users Advisory Board, 1986-1989, chairman, 1989-1992.

Achievements

• Charles Oswald Cary has been listed as a noteworthy Aviation executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate). Member Diplomatic and Consular Officers Club Retired (Washington), Lake Sunapee Yacht Club.

Connections

Married Jean M. Cochran, May 8, 1948.

Father:

Charles P. Cary

Mother:

Adeline J. (Oswald) Cary

Spouse:

Jean M. Cochran