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Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Bob" Ashby (Retired), a former Tuskegee Airman, was hired in 1973 as an Airline Pilot (Captain) by Frontier Airlines to become the 1st African American Pilot with Frontier Airlines. This event was also marked as the only time that a Tuskegee Airman in became an commercial airline pilot.
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