"Grampa Nick"

Alva Nichols Rogers

CWO3 U.S. Army (ret)

A True

American & Southerner

14 May 1940 - 27 July 1999

Vietnam Veteran

D/227 AVN 1 CAV

1965-66

Somewhere around 1979 -1980

My Mom Our Gramma G

met "Nick"

a Northrop Aviation

helicopter test pilot

from Ft. Rucker, Alabama

who was at Ft. Eustis

for  training on the AH-1 Cobra

When the city of Newport News

wanted to develop a mall at

Endview Plantation

Grandpa Nick fought again..... without his Huey

Save Endview Campaign

to save a piece of our family history

and Endview is still in operation.

After moving to Virginia

Nick spent many hours as a volunteet at

Yorktown Victory Center

On Aviation Career