On this National Aviation Day, we want to share a special honor recently given to an aviation pioneer from Kentucky.

Captain B Osborne was Kentucky's first Army pilot.

He made history after taking a plane for a test run during World War One.

The Kentucky Army National Guard recently honored Osborne's place in aviation history.

Dayton, Ohio, and the Wright Brothers, North Carolina and Kitty Hawk, Kentucky has the.

Today we gather to celebrate a true pioneer, a patriot, and a person of remarkable courage and conviction.

Captain born the first aviator in the history of the Tucky National Guard.

In 1917, Osborne was deployed to France to support the war effort.

He assumed the role of chief test pilot and commander of the 1106 Aero Squad.

He is one of the first the very first pilots that flew in the javelin for airplane when it went to France to become part of the war effort, and so he tested the airplanes as they arrived, and he created, the organization that did all the testing of the airplanes that went to France.

Now, that's the significance is the fact that this airplane that they have land for, he is the first combat airplane that the United States constructed, built for American troops to fly, American pilots to fly in, in France.

Now, you have to understand what these airplanes were like back in World War One.

They were wooden made.

They had cloth covers.

In a lot of cases, in this case, they were multiple wing airplanes, and people had not done a lot of test flying to know how to fly.

He basically, had to teach himself.

Now, he did go to a school.

He was selected to do a special training and, to be the first production aviator for the Kentucky Guard.

We didn't know a lot about flying and what the skills were.

So he was taken it upon himself, based on the training, limited training that he had in order to do the job.

And it's always risky.

Every time you flew, you weren't sure what the results were going to be.

B Osborn was one of those rare visionaries.

In an era when flight was still considered dangerous, even foolish by some B, Osborn embraced it with a sense of purpose.

For Osborn, aviation was a way to serve the way to defend the homeland.

To answer the call of duty and to inspire a new a new generation of Kentuckians.

To believe that the sky was not the limit, but merely the beginning.

Captain Osborn didn't inherit a legacy in the sky.

He created what?