of the Lafayette Flying Corps. In 1973, he was inducted into the Colorado Aviation Hall of Fame. Personal life In 1936, Combs married Clara Van Schaack. They had three children—Harry B. Combs Jr., Anthony "Tony" Combs, and Clara Combs—before divorcing in 1954. He married his second wife Virginia (Ginney) in 1956. Combs liked skiing, fishing, and big game hunting, going on safaris in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, and Zambia. He was an avid horseman and owned three cattle ranches in Colorado—The Sleeping Indian in Ridgeway, a 19,000-acre ranch and game preserve in Elbert and El Paso counties, and a 6,000-acre cattle ranch and game reserve in Ouray County. After he retired, he summered at a ranch in Montana and spent the winters in Wickenburg. However, he also maintained a house in Denver. For the First Flight Centennial Celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight, Combs donated a full-scale reproduction of the 1903 Wright Flyer to the National Park Service. Valued at $1 million, the airplane replica was reversed engineered using documents from the Wright brothers. On December 17, 2003, he attended the dedication ceremonies for the Combs-Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk. The replica was displayed at the Wright Brothers National Memorial at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. He gave $1.2 million to the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2001 for a learning and research center. In 2003, he died in New York City at the age of 90 due to a heart condition. References 1913 births 2003 deaths People from Denver Taft School alumni Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science alumni Yale Bulldogs athletes St. Anthony Hall Aviators from Colorado Aviation pioneers American aviators Aircraft designers American glider pilots American flight instructors American aerospace engineers Aviation inventors NASA people American aviation writers 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers