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The inventor’s handmade tools are now museum artifacts.
Once retired, it earned a spot in the Steven Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and today headlines the “Nation of Speed” exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, ...
Steven Udvar-Hazy can claim something few people can. He invented an industry sector: aircraft leasing. The Hungarian-born-and-California-raised businessman did so more than 50 years ago, when air ...
Many of Goddard’s early rockets are today part of the National Air and Space Museum’s permanent collection, some of which are on display at the Museum in Washington, D.C., and at the Steven F.
LOS ANGELES, March 13, 2025--Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL) ("ALC" or the "Company") today announced that Executive Chairman Steven Udvar-Házy will retire on May 2, 2025, following the Company ...
In 1973, Mr. Udvar-Házy proceeded to co-found and lead International Lease Finance Corp. (“ILFC”), which was sold to AIG for $1.3 billion. Mr. Udvar-Házy led ILFC until his retirement in 2010.
Air Lease (AL) “announced that Executive Chairman Steven Udvar-Hazy will retire on May 2, 2025, following the Company’s 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Mr.
Udvar-Házy and his wife, Christine, have also donated more than $100 million to Stanford University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona.
Once Udvar-Hazy’s family made it to New York, he spent time at LaGuardia and JFK, then called Idlewild Airport. Udvar-Hazy started brokering aircraft leases while he was still a student at UCLA ...
One of the most memorable couples from the longtime ABC series Wife Swap has called it quits. Steven and Jodi Spolansky quietly divorced earlier this year, according to Page Six. Court documents ...
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy and his wife Christine attend a Museum event in 2018. Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum/Jim Preston The expansive Center features two cavernous exhibit spaces.
Hungarian billionaire Steven Udvar-Hazy was not. The airplane mogul built the Italian-inspired mansion in 1998 and listed it for $165 million in 2017, which at the time was one of the most ...