EAA Sport Aviation - October 2009

gone west
Not alone into the sunset but into the
company of friends who have gone before them

Stephen Adams (EAA 721401), Russellville, Alabama Bill Albee (EAA 835310), Copperopolis, California Norman Anderson (EAA 396769), Newport, Rhode Island George Austin (EAA 79131), Panama City, Florida Reid Averill (EAA 538666), Collierville, Tennessee Lowell Baker (EAA 70322), Genoa, Ohio

Edward Beck (EAA 30908), Hudson, Ohio George Bonner (EAA 199748), Virginia Beach, Virginia Keith Broyles (EAA 809047), Billings, Montana Dorr Carpenter (EAA 21124), Stanardsville, Virginia Michel Chetboun (EAA 642127), Mitry-Mory, France Chandra Clanton (EAA 493975), Lincoln, Nebraska D. Clark (EAA 72133), Chatsworth, California Donald Coyne (EAA 757151), Santa Cruz, California Bonham Cross (EAA 98013), Minneapolis, Minnesota Vicki Cruse (EAA 491499), Santa Paula, California Carl Dalrymple (EAA 593624), Holt, Michigan Gerald Edmonds (EAA 152276), Columbus, Georgia James Foley (EAA 413453), Lompoc, California Charles Funston (EAA 56394), Bolingbrook, Illinois Henry Gee (EAA 867536), Harrison Hot Spring,

British Columbia, Canada

Rudolf Gehrmann (EAA 545145), Sun Prairie, Wisconsin Robert Georges (EAA 613669), Divide, Colorado Helmut Graffunder (EAA 670674), Verden, Germany Donald Hales (EAA 9000362), New Carlisle, Indiana Michael Harris (EAA 847247), Jacksonville, Florida Peter Heintz (EAA 838040), Cordova, Tennessee John Horne (EAA 214755), Brookfield, Wisconsin Wayne Huff (EAA 240394), Baton Rouge, Louisiana William Jackson (EAA 774948), Lincoln, California Edward Kilanski (EAA 35546), Knapp, Wisconsin James Lantz (EAA 729061), Greentown, Indiana Curtis Larson (EAA 236803), Stephen, Minnesota Cornell Lederman (EAA 411239), Spencerville, Indiana L.C. Lederman (EAA 752871), Spencerville, Indiana Cole Levenson (EAA 491439), Pikeville, Tennessee S. Lundgren (EAA 499672), Coleman, Wisconsin Constance Lutz (EAA 57674), Buffalo, Missouri Donald Marks (EAA 618490), High Point, North Carolina Richard McAfee (EAA 258440), Dillon, Montana George McCutcheon (EAA 830784), Gaylord, Michigan Thomas McGatha (EAA 547585), Centre, Alabama Kirby McKinney (EAA 62712), Greenville, South Carolina James Miller (EAA 439050), Gretna, Louisiana Ralph Mohr (EAA 277471), Milwaukee, Wisconsin Howard Newman (EAA 258268), San Diego, California Ray Orwig (EAA 833343), Reading, Pennsylvania Frederick Ott (EAA 730698), Battle Creek, Michigan

Andrea Parker (EAA 327343), Jeffersonville, Vermont Rodolpho Penteado (EAA 298863),

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Jonathan Sargent (EAA 138909), Arcadia, Florida Joe Speight Sugg (EAA 509193), Tarboro, North Carolina Dennis Starling (EAA 678128), Columbus, Georgia Don Stoegbauer (EAA 640919), Appleton, Wisconsin Loren Thompson (EAA 726572), Minooka, Illinois

R. Trojan (EAA 25364), Reno, Nevada

Joseph Valasek (EAA 431631), Ford City, Pennsylvania H. Wells (EAA 56096), The Plains, Virginia

Timothy Williams (EAA 588603), Wilsonville, Oregon Kenneth Wilson (EAA 812521), Salisbury, United Kingdom Lester Wright (EAA 97972), El Dorado Hills, California Robert Zipser (EAA 513388), Claremont, California

Chandy Clanton (11/28/1972–7/10/2009)

Aerobatic performer Chandy Clanton perished in a plane crash on July 10. She was 36.

Clanton, a member of EAA and IAC (Chapter 80), had been practicing about 75 miles southwest of Omaha, Nebraska, in preparation for a performance at the next day’s Wing Nuts Flying Circus Fly-In in Tarkio, Missouri. According to reports, her Edge 540 went down in a bean field. The FAA is investigating what caused the plane crash.

Clanton, who had
two sons ages 7 and 10,
became known to many

EAAers in 2003 when performing as the only woman pilot in the Stars of Tomorrow, a group of six up-and-coming aerobatic pilots. She returned to perform in

Oshkosh at AirVenture the following two years and was scheduled to fly in the Friday and Sunday air shows this year. She was also a three-time member of the U.S. Unlimited Aerobatic Team.

Friends and family are invited to post obituaries and sign a memorial guestbook online for Chandy and other EAAers who have “gone west” at www.EAA.org/obituaries. The names and stories of each person enshrined on EAA’s Memorial Wall in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, are also available here.