{"id":540,"date":"2016-04-06T19:04:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2016-12-18T10:28:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-18T15:28:38","slug":"local-air-force-aircraft-accidents-1919-to-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/local-air-force-aircraft-accidents-1919-to-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Air Force Aircraft Accidents, 1919 to 1954"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have lately been researching local air crashes, and become increasingly curious about military aircraft incidents. (Have found a couple, including a B-17 crash in Garner in 1944.) Let\u2019s get more exhaustive via this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationarchaeology.com\/src\/dbaf.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">database of Air Force Accident Reports<\/a>\u00a0from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationarchaeology.com\/\">Aviation Archaeological Investigation &amp; Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve indexed USAAF and USAF reports from 1918 to 1955, though with gaps in 1948-49, and 1952-55. Their database contains (by my count) 1,725 records where State = North Carolina. From those, fifty-one took place in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. (That\u2019s by eyeballing the results.)<\/p>\n<p>They also sell copies of the reports, which can be ordered from their site. Might have look into that! (They\u2019re also looking for volunteers, to read microfilm and enter data.) See the table below.<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After September 18, 1947, the Air Force split from the Army. Thus the records after that date are non-Army, and thus the January 2, 1953, crash of an Army transport plane in Morrisville isn\u2019t listed.<\/li>\n<li>Known fatal accidents in <strong>bold.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Flocal-air-force-aircraft-accidents-1919-to-1954%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"540\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Local Air Force Aircraft Accidents, 1919 to 1954\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Flocal-air-force-aircraft-accidents-1919-to-1954%2F&text=Local+Air+Force+Aircraft+Accidents%2C+1919+to+1954\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"540\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Local Air Force Aircraft Accidents, 1919 to 1954\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Flocal-air-force-aircraft-accidents-1919-to-1954%2F&description=Local+Air+Force+Aircraft+Accidents%2C+1919+to+1954\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"540\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Local Air Force Aircraft Accidents, 1919 to 1954\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have lately been researching local air crashes, and become increasingly curious about military aircraft incidents. 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