Posted on 09/29/2006 2:03:39 PM PDT by skeptoid
One of the Puget Sound region's best-known aviators, Clayton Scott, the former personal pilot for Bill Boeing, died Thursday. He was 101.
Last year, on the occasion of Scott's 100th birthday, Renton's Municipal Airport was renamed Clayton Scott Field.
A memorial service for Scott will be held at the Museum of Flight at 6 p.m. on Oct. 6, a museum spokeswoman said.
..."Scott was chief production test pilot for Boeing from 1940 to 1966,
flying both military and commercial planes for the company.
Later, when he retired, Scott built and flew a replica B&W, the float plane
considered Boeing's first aircraft. The replica hangs today in the Museum of Flight." ...
Hey - I worked on and have been in that plane he's standing in front of.
Boeing ping
Thanks for the ping. May this great pilot rest in peace.
Rest in peace.
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