DAVE VAUGHAN
1954 - 196?
DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE
FTW GSW


I recently ran across your Central Airlines website and really enjoyed the content.  
I vividly remember my first flight of any sort and it was a non-rev flight 
from Carter Field to Kansas City (via Love, Paris , Ft Smith, Fayetteville , and Joplin ).  
I was thrilled with aviation and ultimately joined the Air Force and flew Phantoms.
My Mom worked briefly for Central, first at Meacham, then at Carter Field in the old hangar.  
I think she was the secretary to a Mr. Vaughan who I believe was head of maintenance.  
Her good friend was T. Doyle, the chief Stewardess, 
and I still have a book that Thelma gave Mom as a thank you.
I have a print of the beautiful Hubbell DC-3 framed in my home.
Keep up the good work,
-B.J. Polk
(4/11/08)

Dave Vaughan was Central's director of maintenance and started in Mar 1954.
What was your mom's name and what years did she work for Dave?
Is she still alive?
Dave died Jan 8, 1999, age 88, in Ft. Worth.
I'm attaching a few pix of Thelma for you.
Do you or your mom know anything about her whereabouts?
-Jake Lamkins
(4/11/08)

Dave S. Vaughan
Born Oct 22, 1910
Died Jan 8, 1999
Age 88
At Ft. Worth, TX
Date of hire with CN Mar 1954
Director of Maintenance at FTW/GSW
-Ken Schultz database
(4/11/08)

Thanks for the photos. My mom passed away in 1998 at age 86.  
Her name is Anne Polk, and she worked for Central (I think) from 1958 through about 1962 or 3. 
I just remember that they occupied the old original AA hangar at Meacham 
and then she worked from the new hangar on the south end of Carter Field.  
I really don’t know anything about T’s whereabouts as its been a long time 
and I was naturally more interested in airplanes than stewardesses at that time.  
I do recall that my older sister had a high school classmate that flew as a stew with Central; 
Penny Belford I think was her name.
-B.J. Polk
(4/11/08)

Posted at the FL Club:
Updated memorial webpage 
Dave Vaughan, 1954-196?, FTW GSW director-maintenance
http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Dave_Vaughan.html
We don't have much info on Dave such as when he left, obituary, etc.
Post anything you have.
-Jake Lamkins
(4/29/08)

FLacebook - FL Club
FLight West: Dave Vaughan
GSW director-maintenance Dave Vaughan's memorial webpage has been updated:
http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Dave_Vaughan.html
Still need a full obituary for Dave.
-Jake Lamkins
(2/18/16)