Albert J. Huber died of cancer on May 2, 2000, at his home in Roseville, California. Newspapers in several cities where he had worked printed obituaries. Born in San Francisco in 1925, Al spent most of his youth in San Leandro. After graduating from San Leandro High School in 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and worked in base operations at Hobbs, NM. After discharge, he studied at the University of Southern California, first at the College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, then at the main campus in Los Angeles. He received one of that university's first degrees in Commercial Aviation. He began his career as office manager at the Hayward Air Terminal, then became Assistant Manager there. In 1951, he joined the Air Force as a commissioned officer and served in Japan and Korean as a combat transport pilot and Squadron Commander. He was awarded the Air Medal and received commendations from the presidents of the United States and South Korea. Here are links to three sites with photos of the C-119 Flying Boxcar that he flew in Asia: one · two · three While he was Provost Marshal (chief of Military Police) in Charleston, South Carolina, he wrote a short account of his life up to that point.

Discharged in 1956, he returned to his old job in Hayward. In 1958, he became Director of Airports for Kern County, where he oversaw sixteen airports in that large county. In 1962, he was hired as Sacramento County's first Director of Airports. He oversaw the land acquisition, financing, design, and construction of the Sacramento International Airport. In 1972, he became the President and Executive Director of the Metro Nashville Airport Authority, which operates Nashville International Airport. In 1977, he became General Manager and CEO of the Regional Airport Authority for Louisville, Kentucky, which operates Louisville International Airport. He retired in 1985 and returned to Sacramento. At the time of his death he resided in Roseville.

Al had been President of the Tennessee and California chapters of the American Association of Airport Executives, and a Director of the National AAAE. He was a member of the American Society of Transportation and Logistics, and founder of Kentuckians for Better Transportation. He was Kentucky's Transportation Man of the Year for 1984.

Best of all, he was my Dad. I'll add much more to this page one day.