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Jorge Chavez - Peru's Most Famous Aviator

Jorge Chavez - Peru's Most Famous Aviator

I've always found it a curiosity that Lima's international airport, built in 1960, is named after Jorge Chavez - a man who never visited Peru and who died in a plane crash. How, then, did this man, who was born and bred in France, come to be a Peruvian national hero?