Robertson attended the initial Reel Stuff Film Festival of Aviation in Dayton in 2008 and discussed his memories of filming “633 Squadron,” a movie in which he starred as a Royal Air Force squadron commander. In 2009, he returned to present “The Pilot,” a 1980 movie he directed and starred in about an airline pilot.
He would fly to Dayton from his New York home in his own Beech Baron airplane, the National Aviation Hall of Fame noted. He attended the organization’s annual enshrinement ceremonies and would sometimes conclude them with a reading of the poem “High Flight.”
“It was ever obvious that the aviation community was one that Cliff adored and was proud to contribute his talents to,” the hall of fame noted in a tribute posted on its website at www.nationalaviation.org.
The organization is housed in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Its annual July enshrinement ceremonies are attended by executives of prominent aerospace companies and receive corporate sponsor support.