Monday, July 25, 2011

Aviation Expert Ron Wilson Dies: Ron Wilson, who spent more than four decades as the spokesperson of SFO, passed away over the weekend.

Ron Wilson 


Longtime Belmont resident Ron Wilson, the spokesperson of San Francisco International Airport for 43 years and most recently an aviation consultant at ABC7, died over the weekend.

Wilson worked at SFO as the director of public affairs from June 1959 to December 2002, according to Wilson's Facebook page.

During those four decades, if you saw a news article or segment about SFO, Wilson was more than likely at the center of the story.

After he retired in 2002, Wilson worked as an aviation consultant for ABC7, where KGO News Director Kevin Keeshan said Wilson was known as "a gem of a guy who was always gracious and accommodating."

"He brought understanding to sometimes complex aviation issues and made all of us smarter with his explanation," Keeshan said in an e-mail to Belmont Patch. "He will be missed for his expertise, but even more so for his kind hearted disposition and enthusiastic love of aviation."

In an article on ABC7's website, the news agency calls Wilson "a walking encyclopedia of institutional history" and says he not only was an aviation icon but a trusted and reliable spokesperson.

The article states Wilson was almost always available to the media, even on Christmas Eve.

Wilson reportedly passed away of cancer.

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