Clay Lacy

Another of the San Diego paintings is of Clay Lacy. Clay is a legend within the aviation community. He started the first Learjet charter business west of the Mississippi. He raced a P-51 Mustang at the Reno Air Races, winning in 1970. He also raced in the 1971 California 1,000 Mile Air Race at Mojave in a Douglas DC-7B. Yes, a 4 engined DC-7B in a closed coarse race around pylons! I was there. I saw it! He came in sixth place.

While doing all this, he was moving up the seniority food chain at United Air Lines as a Captain. He had started with United at the age of 19 flying DC-3s. Upon his retirement from United, he was number one on the seniority list for all of United. He has the most pilot in command time of any pilot with over 50,000 hours.