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N6471K
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AIRCRAFT DATA |
| Manufacturer: |
Republic
Aviation Corporation; Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, USA. |
| Model: |
RC-3 Seabee |
| Type
Certificate No: |
A-769 |
| Serial
Number: |
722 |
| Manufacturing
Date: |
1947-04-?? |
| Engine: |
Franklin
6A8-215-B9F (215 HP at 2500 RPM)
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| Remarks: |
Mode
S codes 52100701
/ A881C1 |
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| Reg.
No. |
Date |
Remarks |
NC6471K
N6471K |
1947-04-?? |
Manufacturing
Date. |
| 1947-04-?? |
Test
flight. |
| 1947-04-28 |
Officially
delivered from Republic Aviation Corporation to Seabee distributor
Rankin Aviation Industries; Tulare, California, USA. |
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| 1952-10-15 |
C
of R issued to:
Robert L. Wooldridge; 8 Waldeck Court, Oakland, CA 94601. |
| 1962-01-14 |
Clear
Lake, California: Aircraft went missing on sightseeing flight.
Eastbay Trio Missing In
Mountain Flight
Wide Search For Craft in
Lake County
LAKEPORT (Lake County) — A plane with three Eastbay persons aboard
is missing today in this rugged mountain region.
Aboard are: Robert Wooldridge, 48, well known
Oakland contractor and pilot; Wooldridge's son, Richard, 11, and
Richard Thunder, 49, Alameda realtor.
Search for the plane, a single-engine
amphibian, is being conducted by Civil Air Patrol and Air Force rescue
teams.
The trio left Lakeport at 11 a.m. yesterday
for a brief sight-seeing flight. Wooldrige's wife, Constance, said the
three planned to fly over Clear Lake and nearby Lake Billsburry and
return by noon.
The Wooldridge and Thunder families departed
Saturday for Wooldridge's cabin near here to spend the weekend. The
plane, based at Buchanan Field near Concord, can land on both water
and land.
Wooldridge, of 8 Waldeck Court, Oakland, is a
veteran flier and was a World War II flight instructor.
Major Ben Hall of the Redwood Empire Group,
Civil Air Patrol, said 10 planes, including aircraft from the Air
Force Western Air Rescue Center at Hamilton Field, comprised the
search party. Three planes were dispatched from the CAP'S Air-Sea
Rescue Support Center at Redwood City.
Major Hall said the search was being
concentrated around Lake Pillsbury, Clear Lake, Lake Berryessa, as
well as other bodies of water in the mountain area. He said he hopes
to dispatch ground crews by this afternoon.
Thunder is operator of the Shaw and Lunt
Realty Co., and has participated in various civic projects in Alameda.
His home is 1380 Eastshore Drive. Wooldridge has constructed several
apartment and home projects in Alameda's South Shore and Oakland.
[Oakland Tribune; Monday, January 15, 1962]
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| 1962-01-15 |
Small
pieces of wreckage found floating in Clear Lake, near Glenhaven.
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| 1962-01-15 |
Pilot's
logbook was found floating in lake, together with part from seat.
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| 1962-01-17 |
The
search is presently located in the Narrows area some 10 between miles
east of here between Glenhaven on the north shore of the lake and the
Soda Bay - Buckingham Park area. Five boats and an airplane manned by sheriff's
deputies and volunteers are participating.
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| 1962-01-25 |
Body
of passenger Richard Wooldridge, 11, recovered from Clear Lake.
Body of Plane Victim Found
In Clear Lake
LAKEPORT (AP) - Sheriff's deputies Thursday found the body of Richard
Wooldridge, 11, of Oakland, who had been missing since the Jan 14 crash of a single engine plane near Clear Lake.
Officers said his body was recovered in Clear
Lake about nine miles southwest of Lakeport.
His father, Robert, 48, a contractor, and
Richard Thunder, 49, Alameda real estate man, were still missing.
[The Humboldt Times; Friday, Jan. 26, 1962]
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| 1962-04-13 |
Body
of passenger Richard P. Thunder, 49, recovered from Clear Lake.
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| 1962-04-15 |
Body
of pilot Robert L. Wooldridge, 48, recovered from Clear Lake.
Oaklander's Body Found in
Lake
LAKEPORT. Lake County — The body of the third victim of a Jan. 14
plane crash has been recovered from Clear Lake.
He is Robert Wooldridge, 48, of 8 Waldeck
Court, Oakland, a contractor. The body of his son, Richard, 11, was
found Jan. 25, and the body of Richard P. Thunder. 49, of Alameda, was
recovered Friday.
Wooldridge was the pilot of the small plane.
Thunder, of 1380 Eastshore Drive, Alameda, was operator of a realty
firm.
[Oakland Tribune; Monday, April 16, 1962]
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| 1970-05-07 |
Cancelled
from FAA Aircraft Registry.
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Sources: |
RAC Seabee Delivery List.
FAA Aircraft Registry.
Barry Collman.
Matt Miller. |
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