Airlines was rewarded with United States Air Cargo Certificate #1. On March 20, 1942, Elliott captained the first scheduled air cargo flight in the United States. Death and honors Elliott retired from Hawaiian Airlines in 1951 and moved to the US mainland. Christine died in 1961, and on November 14, 1962 Elliott married Bertha Widmann in Las Vegas, Nevada. Elliott died in Burbank, California on July 5, 1972 from a stroke at the age of 79. He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. On November 11, 1964, the House of Representatives for the State of Hawaii named "Elliott Street" at the Honolulu International Airport in his honor On November 11, 2017, Hawaiian Airlines named its 21-acre "Charles I. Elliott Maintenance and Cargo Facility" in his honor References 1892 births 1972 deaths Aviation pioneers Commercial aviators Aviators from Hawaii Aviators from West Virginia United States Naval Aviators Aviators from Oregon United States Navy personnel of World War I Hawaiian Airlines people People from Mineral County, West Virginia