Ponton de Arce, Leroy.
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Leroy Ponton de Arce was an American aviator, air force officer, and federal air traffic control official during the twentieth century. Ponton de Arce learned to fly in the U.S. Army Signal Corps Aviation Section in 1917 and served in France with the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I. After holding a number of jobs during the 1920s and 1930s, he became a federal air traffic control official in 1937. He went on to a long and distinguished career with the Civil Aeronautics Authority and its successor agencies, the Civil Aeronautics Administration, and the Federal Aviation Agency, serving as Chief of Oakland, California Air Traffic Control Center (1937-1939), Air Traffic Control Coordinator of 6th and 7th Regions (1939-1942), and Chief of Air Traffic Control Division, 6th Region (1946-1961). He also served in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and held several command posts, including Commanding Officer of the 7th Ferrying Group at Gore Field in Great Falls, Montana.
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Aeronautics
Aeronautics, Commercial
Aeronautics, Military
Air pilots
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Air traffic control
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World War, 1939-1945
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Gore Field (Mont.)
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