Ex-Tuskegee Airman Alfred Thomas Farrar dies at age 99 Farrar left his Lynchburg hometown for Tuskegee after graduating from high school to began his aviation training in 1941. Credit: Kendall Warner/The News & Advance via AP, File FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, file photo, Alfred Farrar, a Tuskegee Airman who is celebrating his 100th birthday in December, poses for a portrait in the doorway of his home in Lynchburg, Va. Farrar died on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, in Virginia, only days before a ceremony planned to honor his service in the program that famously trained Black military pilots during World War II. He was 99. Farrar's 100th birthday would've been on Dec. 26.