1995 US Code
Title 36 - PATRIOTIC SOCIETIES AND OBSERVANCES
CHAPTER 75 - AVIATION HALL OF FAME
Sec. 4303 - Purposes of corporation

The purposes of the corporation shall be—

(1) To receive and maintain a fund or funds, and to use and apply the whole or any part of the income therefrom, and the principal thereof, exclusively for charitable, scientific, literary, or educational purposes, either directly or by contributions to organizations duly authorized to carry on similar activities, but no part of such income or principal shall be contributed to any organization whose net earnings or any part thereof inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual, or any substantial part of the activities of which is carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation. The detailed purposes hereinafter set forth shall at all times be subject to and in furtherance of the provisions contained in this paragraph.

(2) To honor citizens, aviation leaders, pilots, teachers, scientists, engineers, inventors, governmental leaders, and other individual 1 who have helped to make this Nation great by their outstanding contributions to the establishment, development, advancement, or improvement of aviation in the United States of America.

(3) To perpetuate the memory of such persons and record their contributions and achievements by the erection and maintenance of such buildings, monuments, and edifices as may be deemed appropriate as a lasting memorial.

(4) To foster, promote, and encourage a better sense of appreciation of the origins and growth of aviation, especially in the United States of America, and the part aviation has played in changing the economic, social, and scientific aspects of our Nation.

(5) To establish and maintain a library and museum for collecting and preserving for posterity, the history of those honored by the organization, together with a documentation of their accomplishments and contributions to aviation, including, but not limited to, such items as aviation pictures, paintings, books, papers, documents, scientific data, relics, mementos, artifacts, and things relating thereto.

(6) To cooperate with other recognized aviation organizations which are actively engaged and interested in similar projects.

(7) To engage in any and all activities incidental thereto or necessary, suitable, or proper for the accomplishment of any of the aforementioned purposes.

(Pub. L. 88–372, §3, July 14, 1964, 78 Stat. 314.)

1 So in original. Probably should be “individuals”.