"Built in 1924 as the entrance to Pierce Brothers Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery, the 75-foot Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation is a Spanish/Mission Revival style monument and burial site for 13 pioneers of aviation.
It was dedicated in 1953 as a final resting place for pilots, mechanics and other pioneers of flight."
Here, "Spectators gather around the wreckage of a Navajo-Piper aircraft scattered at the base of the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in Burbank. The twin-engine plane crashed shortly after taking off from the Hollywood-Burbank Airport. Photograph dated July 21, 1969."
http://skyscraperpage.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5482841&postcount=5220
the shuttles Columbia and Challenger are represented by this model shuttle.
The cremated remains of the co-founder of Lockheed are in it, as are the 2nd female licensed pilot, and plaques commemorating important aviation events.
http://wesclark.com/burbank/portal/page1.htm
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