Photo Courtesy William E. Martin
The photograph of the signboard above was taken in September 2011. It confirms that Abken Aviation Co. is still in business, sixty-seven years after its founding by my father, Warner Kenyon, and his business partner, L. D. Abernathy, in 1944.
Mr. Abernathy died in 1968 and my father in 1998. Dick Brannock, a former Ashland Oil pilot, bought my father's portion of Abken Aviation Co. over 30 years ago. Mr. Brannock remained active as a pilot flying corporate jets well into his eighties. Today he retains his co-ownership in Abken Aviation along with Mr. Abernathy's two children, Dale and Shirley.
Updated October 12, 2013.
Updated October 12, 2013.
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