17 Facts About Larry Connor

Larry Connor was a member of Who's Who of College Students and was one of 22 students out of a class of 4,500 undergraduates selected to the Ohio University J Club.

Larry Connor had operations in central Florida and Cincinnati, OH, providing hardware and software to businesses.

Larry Connor bought out his partners and established the Larry Connor Group in 2003.

Larry Connor has been a member of the National Council of McLean Hospital since 2008.

Larry Connor was tasked with raising $33 million of the $72 million total.

Larry Connor made a substantial donation himself, before finding other donors to raise the amount required.

Larry Connor co-founded First Billing Services in 2003, which provided payment solutions to utility and municipal government clients.

Larry Connor agreed to fund childcare expenses and expanded the company-sponsored loan program.

Larry Connor is a private pilot involved in several aerobatic competitions.

In 1983, Larry Connor had a single start in the Atlantic Championship, named Formula Mondial North America at the time, and raced intermittently at various levels of SCCA and Formula 2000 competition since, as well as vintage racing.

In 2000 and 2001, Larry Connor was the winner of the SCCA Formula Atlantic National Championship.

In 2003, Larry Connor was part of the winning team at Petit Le Mans in the LMP675 class.

In 2005, Larry Connor signed with Genoa Racing to make his Infiniti Pro Series debut at the Liberty Challenge, but an airborne crash during qualifying left him out of the event, being credited with a finishing position despite not starting the race.

Larry Connor later came back at Watkins Glen, finishing 8th in his only start in the series.

Larry Connor reported that he aimed to go both to space and to the deepest part of the ocean within the same year.

At 72 years of age, Larry Connor was the second oldest person to enter orbit, after John Glenn who entered space aged 77.

In September 2024, Larry Connor received the National Aviation Hall of Fame's Armstrong Award, recognizing his leadership and innovation in aviation and aerospace.