WARNER ROBINS GA USA — At the Museum of Aviation’s World War II Hangar on most any Wednesday afternoon, visitors don’t have to read the placards scattered about to learn history. They can hear it straight from a man who lived it.
Frank Cross, a World War II bomber pilot who turns 92 in January, is not only the museum’s oldest volunteer but also has the record for most volunteer hours. He has worked more than 13,000 hours, and that’s not even counting the hours he put in before the museum started keeping track.
He was volunteering for the museum before it even existed, helping clear the land and constructing the first building. Besides flying planes in World War II and Korea, he also was an aircraft mechanic. He helped restore planes at the museum until he was 75. That’s when Peggy Young, the museum director at the time, called him up to the office.