Cessna 170B possible N3153B crash on Mt Lemmon Tucson on January 6 1955

Cessna 170B possible N3153B crash on Mt Lemmon Tucson on January 6, 1955

Cessna 170B with four men aboard took off from Phoenix on January 6, 1955. The men were on a business trip to Douglas, Arizona. When the aircraft failed to arrive in Douglas, a search was initiated. Discovery of the plane occurred four month later by a Forest Service employee on a scouting trip on Mountain Lemmon.

Killed in the crash:
William A. Kopp
Covelle O. Price
Leslie W. Slade
Louis W. Wiese

Landing gear and possible firewall. Photo from my personal collection.

Landing gear from a recent trip to revisit the crash site.

Might have been a battery box. I don’t think it was an ammo can.

Door Lock mechanism? It was hard to read.

Original crash site photo from my personal collection.

Portion of the wing. (P-38.com was my old website.)

Scattered debris at B-18 crash site.

Agassiz Peak