Business aviation loses a corporate aircraft pioneer
Durrell Unger “Dee” Howard, a determined and talented pioneer in the post- World War II development of business aviation, died on February 11 at age 88 in

Durrell Unger “Dee” Howard, a determined and talented pioneer in the post- World War II development of business aviation, died on February 11 at age 88 in San Antonio, Texas.

An Air Force mechanic during the war, Howard turned wrenches on airliners then started his own company, Howard Aero, in San Antonio in 1947. As Howard
Aero gained experience maintaining Lockheed B-34/PV-1 Venturas, the company began converting them to executive transports. The Howard 250 was so named because of the airplane’s cruising speed, 250 mph, according to Mike Zoeller’s detailed history of the Lockheed twins (http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m. zoeller/).

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