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Originally Posted by Lady Jane
On this date in 1973, Jim Croce died in a crash in a Beech Model 18 at age 30.
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In the summer of 1966, I entered active duty for training in the Marine Corps Reserve while in the Philippines and needed to get to Quantico, Virginia, for Officer Candidate School. I needed to get from the Naval Station Sangley Point, Philippines, on Manila Bay to Clark Air Base to catch a flight. There was a bus, but my Dad, always eager to get out of the office and into the cockpit, flew me up to Clark in the station's UC-45J 'Bugsmasher.' The only time I got to fly with him in an active Navy aircraft and a treasured memory. I think I even got a few minute's worth of pilot time myself on the brief trip.
The photo is of a UC-45J warbird and I think the paint job is just a little off but it's a pretty good portrait.