I work/worked at Detroit City Airport

[Charlie Malesev AT2 W8EIV]

Any former or current employees care to share your experiences while working at the airport?
Thanks,Dfd

I also had the pleasure of working at Detroit City Airport from 1978 to 1995 with Beacon Avionics in Hanger #13... It was the best years of my life besides being aboard the USS Kitty Hawk CV63, at Beacon Avionics my manager was Clinton Mack a Veit Nam vet that was an AVIONICS technician in Spain and was responsible for avionics aboard the B52 Bombers I truly admired Mack he was a genius, Mack passed away in summer of 2003 of Sickle Cell Anemia. Our hanger was an museum of old fighter planes and a B17 Bomber owned by it's WW2 pilot Kernel Lamont. Sorry got to get out of here for now it is Sabath but I will come back with many stories of Our Detroit City Airport.

Ok I'm back for awhile.. Sonny Elliot, Mort Krim, Paul Newman, Jeff Danials, Atty. Wm. Mc. Carther just a few of the well known pilots that I had opportunity to work on their aircraft.

In 1986 the wife of the owner of Jet Care backed her Lincoln out of the hanger into the props of a plane that was chocked and tied down for a rebuilt engine power test, she hit the brakes in time to save her life but the rear half of the Lincoln was sliced up like a chunk of cheese.

Then as I remember it in 1988 the owner of Jet Care was killed along with one of his pilots and a newly hired pilot , it occurred on a Saturday morning, they were training the new pilot to recover the jet from an engine flame out during take off, n extremely dangerous situation, well they could not restart the engine and the craft went down in the cemetery at the end of the runway at six mile road, they were all three killed in that crash.

Be back tomorrow.





Tnx

Charlie