Lost Mohawk Valley by Cudmore Bob

Author:Cudmore, Bob [Cudmore, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

DEMONSTRATION FLIGHT TRAGEDY

During the time when Carpet City Airport was most active, two men died when a two-seater Aeronca plane crashed during a demonstration flight twelve minutes after takeoff on Sunday afternoon, October 6, 1946.

The Aeronca was owned by Ray A. Shaver of 88 Forest Street in Gloversville. Willis E. “Slip” Slater, thirty-three, of 401 Locust Avenue in Amsterdam, was demonstrating the plane to Edward Rytel, twenty, of Perth, who had expressed interest in buying it.

Slater, a longtime pilot and army air corps veteran, was a flying instructor at the airport. He died on impact. Slater’s wife, the former Marcella Flaherty, had given birth to their son eight days before the airplane tragedy. Rytel, a wounded veteran and student of aviation, survived about three hours, dying at St. Mary’s Hospital. It was not clear who was at the controls at the time of the crash.

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