Date of
Disappearance |
Aircraft Type |
Number/Serial |
Persons
on Board |
Point of
Departure / Destination |
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| 5/2/16 |
Cessna 172N
|
N739ZE |
2 |
En route from
Catalina Island to Van Nuys Airport on training flight. Stratus clouds
present. Reward $125,000 for location of crash site, and recovery of student
pilot’s body. Presumed in Pacific Ocean. No ELT signal received.
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12/17/12
 |
Mooney MK20F |
N952AM |
1 |
Santa Ynez
Airport to Mammoth Lakes Airport. Wreckage located by hiker near the
Vogelsang in Yosemite National Park on July 6, 2013.
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| 2/2/08 |
Kidd Harmon Rocket |
N96KR |
1 |
Small airstrip near Taft /
Ranch in New Cuyama
Wreck found 2/6/08 south of Maricopa.
|
2/2/08
|
Cessna 340A |
N354TJ |
4 |
Bermuda
Dunes/Chino /
Wreck was located 2/9/08 San Bernardino Mnts.
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| 9/3/07 |
Bellanca 8KCAB-180 |
N240R |
1 |
Flying M Ranch, NV /
Unknown (possibly in CA)
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Hikers found personal effects belonging to Steve Fossett on 9/28/08 near
Minaret Lake NW of Mammoth Lakes in the High Sierra of California. Fossett wreckage found 10/03/08.
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| 7/7/07 |
Cub Crafters
CC11-100 |
N222TB |
1 |
Disappeared on
local flight from Aurora State Airport, Oregon
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| 9/24/06 |
Cessna 172K |
N2700Q |
2 |
Aircraft departed
Deer Valley Airport near Phoenix, Arizona en route to the Sedona, Arizona.
Last known location within nine miles NE of Sedona.
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On
4/19/09 a search team appears to have located the burned wreckage of N2700Q
that vanished on a local flight north of Sedona, AZ. The research and
detective work by Chris Killian was key to resolving this case. The wreckage
was located close to the last known radar position on 9/24/06. More updates
on this important story will be posted soon.
Wreck found: News reports:
http://www.kpho.com/news/19278369/detail.html
and
http://www.kpho.com/news/19275959/detail.html
|
| 6/3/01 |
Piper PA-28-181 |
N8253W |
1 |
Perris Valley /
Brackett Field
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On
9/21/08 San Bernardino County Sheriff’s helicopter crew located the remains
of pilot Daniel Katz and his aircraft at the 5,700’ MSL in the San Gabriel
Mnts. only a few air miles from his last known location.
Katz Found
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| 8/29/87 |
Cessna 172P |
N65797 |
|
Departed Van Nuys
CA to coastal area with one person on board. Aircraft is presumed to have
crashed in the Pacific Ocean.
|
| 6/2/67
|
Piper PA-28 |
N4389J |
3 |
San Jose /
Ogden,
Utah (last radio contact Tracy/Modesto area)
|
| 12/20/64 |
Piper Tri-Pacer |
N9536D |
2 |
Las Vegas NV /
Long Beach CA
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| 8/12/64
|
Cessna 210A |
N9492X |
1 |
Oakland to Las
Vegas. No flight plan filed. Pilot, Charles C. Ogle
|
| 3/3/64 |
Cessna 150 |
N1910Z |
1 |
Van Nuys local
flight
|
| 9/21/62 |
Champion
Tri-Champ |
N9888B |
2 |
Compton /
Local flight presumed in Pacific Ocean
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| 6/19/61 |
Grumman F9F-8T
USN |
BuNo 146381 |
2 |
Moffett Field
NAS /
Local flight presumed in bay/ocean
|
| 3/15/61 |
Cessna L-19A ANG |
51-12546 |
2 |
Oxnard AFB /
Santa Barbara (presumed down in Santa Barbara Channel)
|
| 2/5/58 |
Boeing B-47E USAF |
52-388 |
3 |
Missing
approximately 50 nautical miles WSW of San Miguel Island without trace at
night.
|
| 5/9/57 |
Lockheed T-33A
USAF |
52-9232 |
1 |
Oakland
International Airport /
Luke AFB AZ (pilot rescued but his plane has never been found)
|
| Mid-April 1953 |
Piper Cub |
N62708 |
|
Vanished on local
AM flight from Santa Clara Valley Airport with twenty-one year old pilot
Bruce Olson a Stanford University Student. While this aircraft may have
crashed in San Francisco Bay, the Santa Cruz Mountains were considered a
prime search area in 1953.
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4/21/45
|
North American
AT-6C USAAF |
42-32900 |
2 |
Kingman, AZ /
Palmdale, Mines Field, CA
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| 3/5/45 |
Grumman F6F-3
USN
|
Bu No 42702 |
1 |
Training mission
over Monterey Bay
|
| 10/26/44 |
North American
P-51D USAAF |
44-15669 |
1 |
Mines Field/LAX /
Palm Springs Presumed to be in Santa Monica Bay
|
| 1/29/44 |
Lockheed B-34
USAAF |
Serial # unknown |
8 |
March Field /
Santa Maria AAB
|
| 9/4/43 |
Grumman TBF-1
USN
|
Bu No 06414 |
3 |
Training mission
over Monterey Bay
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| 7/16/43 |
Grumman TBF-1 |
|
2 |
Vanished over
Monterey Bay, CA on
training flight in cloudy conditions with Lt. Cmdr. S. Stephens, pilot and
radio operator/gunner A.D. Gilder. Information courtesy Rhian Ellis
|
| 4/26/43 |
Grumman TBF-1
USN
|
Bu No 01743 |
3 |
Training mission
over Monterey Bay
|
| 3/14/43 |
(3) Grumman TBF-1
USN
|
Bu Nos unknown |
6 |
Arizona to North
Island NAS /
presumed in Pacific Ocean |
|
3/13/43 |
Douglas SBD-4 |
Bu No 10331 |
|
en route Reeve NAS, CA /
Seattle, WA wreck found 11/5/81. No trace of pilot
|
| 12/6/42 |
Consolidated
B-24D |
#41-24260 |
5 |
The flight
originated at Tucson, AZ, landing at Hamilton Field, CA from where the long
range training mission continued over the Pacific Ocean. #41-24260 vanished
somewhere NW of Stewarts Point possibly several hundred miles from the
nearest land. Weather may have been a factor in this disappearance.
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| 10/24/41 |
Curtiss P-40
USAAF |
39-194 |
1 |
March Field /
Sacramento (pilot rescued but his plane has never been found)
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3/28/38
|
Kinner XRK-1 |
Bu No 9748 |
2 |
Missing on a
flight from Palm Springs to North Island Naval Air Station U.S.N.
|
| 7/30/35 |
Northrop 3A |
Test aircraft |
1 |
Jack Northrop
Field to Santa Monica Bay for stall spin tests |
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Additional listings to be posted soon! |
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The missing how they
haunt us,
how we need to know their fate
for the sake of families and friends
closure is essential,
and never comes too late.
G. Pat Macha 2/6/08 |
