Albert C. Hansen was a general contractor, vintage aircraft re-builder, owner, and collector. Born in December 1930, he was raised in South Pasadena and moved to Mojave after service in the U.S. Army in 1956. He first came to Mojave in 1947 with his father, Homer Hansen, and worked on the Hansen Wilderness Ranch north of Mojave. For 25 years he was active in renting his aircraft for movie production work. He participated in many adventuresome aviation projects, including the B-29 “Keebird” retrieval effort in Greenland; flying seven C-7 Caribou aircraft from Kwajalein Atoll; purchasing and flying a PBY Catalina across the Atlantic from Madrid, Spain, to Mojave; flying a HU-16 Albatross from Grand Turk in the British West Indies to Mojave; and ferrying numerous UH-1H helicopters across the nation. His favorite activity was flying his F-86E Sabre and Fouga Magister CM-170 through the clear Mojave skies. He had been a licensed pilot since 1960, with single land and sea, multi-engine land and sea, helicopter, and type ratings for the F-86, Hawker Hunter, Fouga Magister, and T-33. He owned UH-1B, UH-1H, and Bell 206 Jet Ranger helicopters; an Antonov AN-2; a Grumman S2F Tracker; three Canadair F-86E aircraft; a CM-170 Fouga-Magister; a Commander 500A; a 1947 Republic SeaBee; a Cessna 150; and North American T-28B’s. His first airplane was a T-28B that he purchased in 1962, and when he flew it from a ranch west of Lancaster to Mojave Airport, it began his love affair with aircraft and Mojave Airport.