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[2012.201.B0051.0169]

Description: An aircraft flies over a flipped plane. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "INSTANT NOSE JOB was performed by a wind gust Thursday on this Cessna 172 aircraft parked at Oklahoma City's Expressway Junction Airpark. Owned by Gerald Nelson, operator of a Guthrie Flying service, the craft had been flown in by Bruce McCoy, Guthrie student pilot, and was parked and unattended when a small, gusty whirlwind flipped it over. No other planes were damage… more
Date: March 28, 1969
Creator: Heaton, Dave
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0051.0170]

Description: Plane wreckage in a open field. Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A 41-year-old Bethany pilot, who celebrated his birthday Sunday, was in satisfactory condition at Baptist Hospital Monday after surviving a crash Sunday in his single-engine aircraft. A hospital spokeman said John C. Orf, 7609 NW 29, a former Oklahoma City policeman, was improving. Orf was pulled from the burning wreckage by two men, David Dawkin, 29-year-old former air force … more
Date: April 6, 1969
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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