Plane Crashes in the Tucson Area

How Decea Originating, landing Many Date Type Plane Location of Incident sed or assigned airport Accident near Municipal Aavation 1 5/9/1926 Airplane Field 0 Municipal Airport 1 2/20/1928 Ex Army Airplane 1 Crashed near the Canda del Oro or 1 10/23/1928 Ryan Monoplane the Santa Catalina range 4 Municipal Airport Training plane crashed about a mile 1 8/7/1930 Curtis "Jenney" from Municipal Airport 0 Municipal Airport 1 4/7/1942 B17 Crashed 2 miles east of Vail 5 DM 1 6/20/1942 B-24 3 miles southeast of DM 8 DM 1 7/8/1942 B-24 Southeast of of DM 1 DM Rincon Mountains, Saguaro National 1 7/30/1942 B-24 Liberator Park 9 Unknown Rincon Mountains, Saguaro National 1 12/28/1942 AT-6 Park 1 Unknown 1 1/18/1943 B-24 50 miles southeast of DM 11 DM 1 1/26/1943 P-38 Hale Road by Muncipal Airport 0 DM 1 1/26/1943 Observaation Plane Davis Monthan 0 DM Crashed into mess hall on landing at 1 2/2/1943 P51 DM 3 DM 1 2/17/1943 Training Plane Giliuro mountains 0 Marana Army Field 1 2/17/1943 B-24 Consolidated Aricraft Plant 6 Consolidated Aircraft 1 3/11/1943 B-24 3 miles southeast DM 6 DM 1 4/12/1943 B-24 2 miles southeast of DM 10 DM 1 4/23/1943 B-24 East Whittier St & S. Alvernon Way 0 DM 1 5/7/1943 Training Plane Southwest of Marana Air Field 2 Marana Army Field Ryan School of 1 6/8/1943 Training Plane 7 miles west of Amado 1 Aeronautics 1 6/22/1943 Army Plane Crashed a Marana Airm Field 1 Marana Army Field crashed 40 miles southeqast of 1 7/9/1943 Vultee BT-13 Marana Army Field 2 Marana Army Field Consolidate 4 motor 1 9/16/1943 plane Crashed at DM 1 DM 1 3/7/1944 Training Plane 10 miles northwest of Ryan Field 1 Ryan Field 1 3/18/1944 B-24 In Sabino Canyon 10 Hamilton Field Calif. 1 3/22/1944 B-24 22 miles southeast Willcox 4 DM 10 miles southwest of Marana Army 1 9/8/1944 Training Plane Air Field 1 Marana Army Field 1 9/14/1944 B-24 6 miles southeast of DM 3 DM 1 10/22/1944 B-24 Takeoff at DM 6 DM 1 11/28/1944 Cargo Plane 25 miles east of DM 3 Yuma Rincon Mountains, Saguaro National 1 11/28/1944 Cessna Park 3 Pecos Army Air Field 1 11/30/1944 B-24 7 miles east of Tucson 18 DM Rincon Mountains, Saguaro National 1 1/20/1945 B-25D Mitchell Park 5 Kelly Field, TX 1 4/29/1945 Bommer Crashed 10 miles southwest of DM 0 DM 1 5/10/1945 Bommer 8 miles southesst of DM 0 DM 1 6/23/1945 B-29 Landed while on fire at DM 0 DM 1 6/24/1945 B-29 3 miles southeast of DM 0 DM 1 7/24/1945 B-29 14 miles north of Oracle Junction 6 DM 1 8/31/1945 Teo seater Near Cortaro 1 Silverbell Airport 35 miles south of Marana Army Air 1 8/31/1945 Training Plane Field 1 Marana Army Field American Airlines DC- Trying to land at DM bad wind gusts 1 1/1/1947 3 caused accident. 0 DM 1 2/18/1947 B29 Engine caught fire over U of A 0 DM 1 6/27/1947 Plane Near Downtown Airport 0 Downtown Airport Along Santa Cruz river bed near 1 7/1/1947 Light Plane Silver Lake Road Tucson Air Park 1 12/16/1947 B-29 5 miles southwest of DM 12 DM 1 5/4/1948 PT-19 Tucson Air Park 0 Tucson Air Park 1 3/23/1950 B-50 Hyder, AZ 12 DM 1 7/13/1950 B-50 50 miles E of Tucson 4 DM 1 8/13/1950 B-50 2 miles east of DM 0 DM 1 9/10/1950 Monoplane East 22nd Street 0 Municipal Airport 1 9/22/1950 B-50 Goose Bay, Labrador 0 DM 1 11/16/1950 B-50 Near Sells AZ 13 DM 1 1/25/1952 F-84 Crashed near 31st Street 1 DM 1 3/26/1952 B-29 Southeast of DM 8 DM 1 6/14/1952 T-6 Training Plane 4 miles northeas of field 1 Marana Army Field Destroyed by fire at Municipal 1 6/18/1952 Stinson V Airport 0 Municipal Airport Crashed near farm by Country Club 1 7/31/1952 Piper crop duster Estates 0 Unknown 1 8/14/1952 Piper Cub Crashed on farm on Ina Rd. 1 Unknown 1 2/8/1953 T-33 Jet Trainer Landing at DM 0 Luke Air Force Base 1 8/20/1953 B-50 Falls in Flames Near Picacho 2 DM Exploded in air, crashed into 1 12/3/1953 B-47 Rincons, from DM 4 DM Got in trouble right after takeoff from Municiple Airport and crashed 1 6/28/1954 C46 near Benson 0 TIA 1 8/24/1954 AT-6 Training Plane 15 miles west of Tucson 2 Marana Air Field 1 11/5/1954 Air Force T-29 T-29 crashed returning to TIA 4 TIA Drashed on runway while practicing 1 10/18/1954 B-47 "shooting Landings" 1 DM Cessna crashed 1 mile from Mt. 1 1/6/1955 Cessna Lemmon in Catalina Mountains 4 Phoenix 1 3/22/1955 Plane Crash Santa Rita Mountains 2 Marana Air Field Trainin jet crashed on landing at 1 3/29/1955 Training Jet Municipal Airport 0 Municipal Airport Just northeast of Red Rock near 1 6/16/1955 T-28 Training Plane Saguaro power plant 2 Marana Air Filed 1 7/16/1955 B-47 Stratojet Made desert landing near DM 0 DM 1 8/2/1955 AFB Stratojet Crippled landing at DM 0 DM C-46 crashed into twin tail booms of 1 8/4/1955 C-46--C-119 C-119 0 Municipal Airport 1 1/15/1956 Private Plane Flowing Wells School practive Field 4 Gilpin Airport 1 2/10/1956 Training Plane 10 miles northeast of base 2 Marana Air Filed 1 6/5/1956 Blimp Blinp had troubled landing-DM 0 DM F86D crashed and blurned taking off 1 6/18/1956 F86D Jet from DM 1 DM 1 8/25/1956 C47 Crashed on takeoff 0 Municipal Airport 1 7/8/1957 2 F86 Jet Fighters Mount Bigelow, Cataline Mountains 0 DM Blew tire on takeoff at Municipal 1 8/29/1957 F84-F Airport 0 Municipal Airport Crashed southeast of Municipal 1 9/16/1957 Twin Engine Airport 0 Municipal Airport 1 4/28/1958 Light Plane Crash landing at Municipal Airport 0 Municipal Airport 1 5/23/1958 T-33 Jet Trainer Had problem on landing at DM 0 DM 1 8/24/1958 T-33 Jet Trainer Northern Slope of Mt. Graham 0 DM Crshed on takeoff 5 miles on Wilmot 1 1/12/1959 F-100A Rd 0 TIA Crashed 3 miles northeast of unkno 1 4/4/1959 B47 Helvetia south of DM wn DM 1 5/13/1959 Light plane Near Kearney mining town 2 Unknown 1 10/1/1959 Helio Courier Crashed at Prince and Romero Rds. 0 Freeway Airport 1/2 mile from Tucson Municipal 1 1/4/1960 Cessna 182 Airport 1 Municipal Airport 1 8/17/1960 F100 Made belly landing at TIA 0 Municipal Airport Two engines knocked off when wing 1 3/23/1961 B47 hit ground in landing 0 DM Crashed on road in front of San 1 1/13/1962 Cessna 172 Xavier Mission 0 Unknown Fliped over landing at Randolph Golf 1 2/10/1962 WW1 Fokker D-7 Coure 0 DM 1 5/22/1962 Converted Military Crash landed in Rillito River bed. 0 Freeway Airport Rincon Mountains,Saguaro National 1 11/9/1962 Piper PA-23 Park 3 Unknown 1 3/27/1963 Cesena 150 trainer Crash landed a DM 1 DM Loose parts from fire over Randolph 1 8/29/1963 B47 Park 0 DM 1 1/23/1964 Piper Tr-Pacer 33 miles east of Tucson 3 Tombstone to Tucson 1 12/1/1964 HC24 Copter Smashed on its side at DM 0 DM 1 2/21/1966 Light plane Crashed 3 miles north of Ryan Field 0 Ryan Field 1 3/20/1966 bi-plane DM Air Show 1 DM 1 6/16/1966 Bell Hilicopter Crashed on Takeoff 0 DM Tucson International 1 2/18/1967 T-28 private plane Nose gear collapsed on takeoff 0 Airport 1 5/2/1967 Hillcopter Crtashed at DM. 2 DM Plane his high voltage lines at Ajo 1 5/29/1967 Piper Tri-Pacer Way and Park Avenue 0 DM 1 10/21/1967 Single Engine Forced down in Schoolyard 0 Local 1 12/18/1967 F-4D Jet Crashes into Food Giant 4 Unknown Voodo Crashed at end of runway takin off at 1 6/10/1968 reconnaissance DM 1 DM 1 10/13/1968 F-4C Jet Crashed on training mission. 2 DM Crashed in Chiricahuas after takeoff 1 1/31/1969 1948 Swift from Freeway Airport 2 Freeway Airport 1/4 miles north of Prince Road near 1 5/7/1969 Light plane the freeway 0 Freeway Airport Crashed at Tucson International Tucson International 1 5/12/1969 Piper Comanche Airport 3 Airport 1 6/3/1969 Single engine 30 miles north of Tucson 2 Freeway Airport 1 8/28/1969 American Airlines Landing at TIA 0 TIA Crashed on the Freeway Airport 1 11/25/1969 Light Plane Runway 0 Freeway Airport Crashed in vacant lot next to 1557 1 11/26/1969 Light Civilian craft W. Prince Rd. 0 Freeway Airport Crashed 100 yds beheind homes on West Gardner Lane by Freeway 1 11/26/1969 Navy A-4 Jet Airport, landing at DM 0 DM 1 7/17/1970 F100 Crash landed in training mission 0 TIA Crashed near Tucson National Gulf 1 8/11/1970 Small plane Course 2 1 8/13/1970 F100 jet Crash landed at TIA 0 TIA 1 12/5/1970 4-FC Jet explodes and burnes at DM 1 DM Crashed on Mt. Lemmon a few minutes aftrer taking off from 1 12/18/1971 Single engine Freeway Airport 1 Freeway Airport 1 2/12/1972 Single engine Crahed 2 miles from TIA runway 0 TIA

1 6/9/1973 Light plane Crashed at Flowing Wells High school 0 Freeway Airport Crashed in the desert area south of Hughes Aircraft Co plant, landing at 1 3/22/1974 Single engine TIA 0 TIA Craashed southeast of TIA cvoming 1 6/20/1974 F100F in for landing 1 TIA 1 1/3/1975 C34 cargo Crahhed after takeoff nearr DM 0 DM Crash landed on Golf Links Rd, west 1 3/6/1975 Single Engine of Pantano Wash 0 TIA Crashed in Romero Canyuon in the 1 10/18/1975 Piper Cherokee Six Santa Catalina Mountains 2 Freeway Airport 1 1/21/1976 Piper Navajo Crash landing at Freeway Airport 0 Freeway Airport Amerrican Airlines 1 10/18/1977 jet Fire in wheel well forced evacuation 0 TIA Crashed in a Westside 1 11/27/1977 Light Plane neighborhood, W. San Juan Trail 2 TIA 1 12/3/1977 2 Censna's 2 planes crshed near N. Silverbell 4 TIA 1 9/18/1978 Frontier Airlines 737 Emergencvy landing with blowout 0 TIA 1 10/26/1978 Jet 6th street 2 DM 1 5/4/1979 Single Engine Crashed on takeoff at TIA 0 TIA Crashed into a sand pit east of 1 5/9/1979 Cessna Hughes access Rd. 1 TIA Exploded 2 1/2 miles southwest of 1 3/14/1980 Cessna Ryan Field 2 Ryan Field Unknown & Piper 2 planes mid air crash, in desert area 1 3/18/1981 Cherokee southwest of Tucson 2 Ryan Field Navigational Training 1 9/4/1981 Plane Crashed near Tombstone 1 DM TFD FF David Lance Davis was killed when his motorized glider crashed in 1 2/13/1983 Glider Marana 1 Marana Field

1 8/2/1983 Vaireze Experimental Crashed near West Valencia Rd 1 Ryan Field 1 8/8/1983 Chopter Crash Near Midtown in Tucson 0 Police 1 9/11/1983 Single Engine Plane Engine quits lands near eastside 0 TIA Crashed practicing emergency 1 11/13/1983 Single Enigine landings at Ryan Field 0 Ryan Field 1 11/17/1983 Viscount Turboprop Crash landing at TIA 0 TIA Crashed on ranch northwestt of Ajjo 1 12/11/1983 Training plane Way 1 Ryan Field Crashed near W Speedway and N 1 3/20/1984 Piper Comanche Greasewood Rd 0 Unknown Rincon Mountains, Saguaro National 1 8/29/1984 Cessna 3120 Parks 4 Drug Smuggling American Airlines landed with faulty 1 1/20/1985 AM Jet landing gear 0 TIA Crashed and exploded near the 11,000 block of West Massingale Rd, 1 7/8/1985 Cessna 150 northwest of tucson 2 Unknown 1 10/11/1985 Bellanca Airplane Crash landing at TIA 0 TIA 1 2/11/1987 Cessna Crashed on takeoff at Tyan Field 0 Ryan Field Crashed approaching landing at Ryan 1 3/5/1987 Grumman Amerrican Field. 3 Ryan Field Crashed 25 miles south of Tucson 1 6/13/1987 F-4 Phantom Jet from DM 2 DM 1 8/23/1987 Single Engine Plane Crashed half mile north of TIA 0 TIA

Crashed on the Tohono O'odham 1 5/19/1988 Piper Tomahawk reservation after taking off from TIA 1 TIA 1 1/22/1989 Home Built Plane Crashed near Avra Valley 2 La Cholla Air Park 1 3/12/1989 CH-3 Helicopter Crashed 11 miles west ot Tucson 15 DM Crashed into a mesquite tree south 1 3/18/1989 Ultralight aircraft of Tucaon 0 Unknown 1 9/18/1989 Cargo plane Crashed at TIA 0 TIA Crashed into telephone pole at 12th 9/25/1989 Single Engine Plane Ave and Bilby Road 0 TIA 1 9/26/1989 Cesna RG-2 Crash landed at TIA 0 TIA 1 12/30/1989 American West Jet Skids off TIA runway 0 TIA

Crashed after hitting house near East 1 2/12/1990 Single Engine Plane Chalk Creek Drive in Oro Valley 1 Unknown 1 3/2/1990 AF OV-10 Bronco Catches fire while landing at DM 1 DM Crashed during an aerobatic stunt in 1 8/19/1990 Experimental Plane Marana 2 Marana Crashed at La Cholia Air Park, Oro 1 8/23/1990 Experimental Plane Valley 1 La Cholia Air Park 1 9/20/1990 Boeing 707 Crashed on Takeoff 1 Marana 1 2/19/2020 F-16 Skids to fiery halt at DM 0 DM Crashed landed in a wash on the San 1 3/8/1991 Cessna 150 Xavier Indian Reservation 0 Ryan Field Crashed after takeoff from TIA at 1 3/11/1991 Cessna 421B Sears Blvd and E. Ginter Rd. 0 TIA

Crashed doing aerobatic maneuvers 1 3/27/1991 Beechcraft 58 in a wash southeast of Vail 2 TIA Crash-landed southeast of Tucson 1 6/16/1991 Piper Tri-Pacer after taking off from Ryan Field 0 Ryan Field Crashe landed at Ryan Field 1 1/9/1992 Cessna 150 practcing landing. 0 Ryan Field 1 3/30/1992 Aero-Commander Crash landed when landing failed. 0 TIA Crash landed in a neighborhood on Armada Lane west of 4400 block of 1 6/12/1992 Cessna 152 North Drake Place. 0 Unknown Crashed west of Tucson east of 1 10/4/1992 Cesenna 150 Sasabe Rd, in the Robles Junction 0 Ryan Airfield 1 12/17/1992 Experimental Plane Crashed southwest o fRyan Airfield 1 Ryan Airfield Crashed and burned on takeoff at 1 4/25/1993 Beechcraft, six seater TIA 2 TIA Crashed near North Craycroft in 1 7/1/1994 Helicopter Catalinas 0 Unknown Plane crashed into house on 1 7/13/1994 Single engine plane southside 0 Santa Fe Crashed in the desert hillside east of 1 1/23/1995 Small Plane Marana 1 Avra Velley Airport Crashed in the 500 Block of West Swanson Rd in the area of Tangerine 1 8/30/1995 Piper Sztec and Insterstate 10 0 Avra Velley Airport Crashed in the Silver Bell Mountain 1 11/1/1996 Experimental Plane northwest of Tucson 2 Mansville airstrip Crash landed on a moving truck at Air National Guard Bse trying to land 1 8/20/1998 Cessna 140 at TIA 0 TIA Crashed shortly after takeoff from 1 12/18/1998 Experimental Plane Ryan Airfield 1 Ryan Airfield 1 4/8/2000 Osprey Marana 19 Marana Airport Crashed into garage at 7100 North 1 9/16/2001 Cessna Omar Drive 1 La Cholla Air Park Army plane Civilian 1 3/15/2002 Plane 2 planes collide at Marana Airport 1 Marana Airport Crashed on Tohono O'odham 1 5/29/2002 F-16 Reservation 0 Phoenix Airport Crashed right after takeoff from 1 7/13/2002 Experimental Plane Ryan Airfield 1 Ryan Airfield 1 7/18/2002 Experimental Plane Crashed on landing at TIA 0 TIA Crashed into Mt. Lemmon near 1 7/27/2002 Single Engine Summerhaven 0 Unknown Crashed near Coyote Mountain just 1 9/14/2002 Single Engine west of three Points 2 Ryan Airfield Crashed moments after takeoff from 1 1/1/2003 Beechcraft Ryan Airfield 1 Ryan Airfield The plane clipped a construction 1 4/22/2003 Myers 200 D 4 Seater trailer in Corona de Tucson. 1 Marana Airport

1 1/8/2005 Cessna 172 Crashed on North Trico Rd in Marana 1 Marana Airport 1 8/10/2006 Helicopter Crashed in Sabino Canyon Area 1 Unknown 1 12/20/2007 1929 MS Bullet Crashed in back yard 0 Marana Airport 1 7/3/2009 Near TIA Crashed just after takeoff from TIA 0 TIA 1 7/28/2010 Helicopter Crashed on North Park Avenue 3 Marana Crashed at Marana Northwest Marana Northwest 1 8/29/2010 Remos G3-600 Regional Airport 1 Regional Airport Crshed practicing touch and go 1 11/13/2010 Cessna 150 landings, at Ryan Airfied 1 Ryan Airfield 1 2/1/2011 Hilicopter Crashed in Ironwood National Park 1 Unknown Crashed about 1 1/2 miles south of 1 12/15/2011 Hilicopter TIA 0 TIA Crashed in undevelopede area of 1 12/14/2012 Hillcopter Raytheon Missile System facility 0 Unknown 1 8/8/2013 Cessna Makes rough landing at TIA 0 TIA 1 10/10/2015 Cessna 310 Sikdded of the runway at TIA 0 TIA 1 1/23/2017 Beechcraft 300 Crashed shortley after takeoff 2 TIA Crashed at Redington Road and El 1 5/14/2020 Small Plane Camino Rinconado 0 TIA

209 345 Crashes not in Tucson area but DM was home base. 1 9/11/1942 B-24 40 miles west of Alpine 10 DM 1 12/4/1942 B-24 5 miles south of Kelvin, AZ 7 DM 1 7/14/1944 B-24 40 miles NE of Palm Springs CA 3 DM 1 9/29/1944 B-24 Near Alamogordo, NM 8 DM 1 4/9/1947 C-47 Kelly Air-field Texas 1 DM 1 6/15/1947 B-29 Springfield VT 12 DM 1 7/27/1948 B-29 Gulf of Aden, Arabia 17 DM 1 9/4/1948 B-29 Over English Cannel 1 DM 1 11/13/1948 B-50 Eielson Airforce Base 6 DM 1 12/22/1948 B-50 Eielson Air Base 10 DM 1 3/16/1949 B-29 Philippine Islands 9 DM 1 10/13/1949 B-50 Stationed in England 12 DM 1 1/26/1950 B-29 Fort Stockton, Texas 0 DM Crashed in desert country near 8/14/1964 Air Force WU2 Boise, Idaho 0 DM 1 7/16/1979 B-57 Bomber Crashed in Salt Lake on way to DM 0 DM 1 9/??/1988 C-130 Aircraft Lost propeller over Verrmont 0 DM 13 96

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