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Fatal Jenny accident
Air Classics, Sep 2002
Well-known vintage aircraft restorer Buzz Kaplan was killed in the crash of his just-restored Curtiss JN-4 Jenny on 26 June. The 1917 aircraft went down around 8:40 am and came to rest nose-down in a ditch near Owatonna Airport, Minnesota. Passenger Brent Langer was in critical but stable condition. The two were attempting to get the Jenny ready for the EAA AirVenture show at Oshkosh.
Among other aircraft, Kaplan had restored a mint Savoia Marchetti amphibian as well as building two Sikorsky S-38s, one of which was a duplicate of a Sikorsky operated by Johnson's Wax in the 1930s and a couple of years ago the plane re-created a famous flight to South America. The second Sikorsky had just recently flown and at press time was at Anoka Airport undergoing further flight tests.
Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. Sep 2002
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